Last minute Megabus trip to Minneapolis - Winter 2011

So last year James Liu and myself decided to take an overnight trip to Minneapolis in the middle of winter via the Megabus. We literally arrived at 3pm one day and left at 11am the following. Super fun trip. So this year Nathan L. Black and I did the trip again. Big thanks to Chris and Ellen for hosting and Dogwood Coffee for just being so very cool.

Dogwood Coffee cupping lab.
Photographers hate being photographed.

Large spittoon.
(photo courtesy Nathan L. Black)

Sample roaster. Dogwood Coffee Co.

Dogwood had literally just received there new Mirage Triplette Idrocompresso when we came to visit. We were one of the first to have a crack and figuring out how to use Mr. van der Westen's crazy levers.

Crazy cute hand made demitasse and one of the first decent shots off the lever group heads.
(photo courtesy Nathan L. Black)

They've got an Uber Boiler at the new Dogwood Cafe in Uptown. Very cool gadget. Chris made us a Chemex with it but in a new and very interesting way. He places the Chemex filter as you would normally but then also put the kone coffee filter ontop before adding ground coffee. The stainless mesh filter acts more similarly to a press pot for the actual extraction and the chemex filter acts as a strainer to clean up some excess fines that would normally make there way into your final cup. I think I'm getting that right. Gotta play around myself. But I must say I really did enjoy the Rwanda, Kopakama we had using this method.
(left overs)