The Burke Museum's special exhibit, Coffee: The World in Your Cup, attempts to tackle issues of sustainability and environmental best practice in the industry. The museum has invited roasters large and small, including ours, to talk about relationship coffee, processing methods, and the politics of coffee. Sat., January 31: Victrola...
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We Compete.
[gallery] Even though, as I write this, the SCAA Northwest Regional Barista Competition is still more than a week away the excitement is building. When I ran into Mark, Victrola's very own trainer who is representing us this year, the other day, he was feverishly strategizing at his desk. I...
Victrola Roasters Grace the Pages of The Weekly
Photo by Steve Miller, as published in The Seattle Weekly, December 3, 2008 Victrola's head and assistant roaster are featured prominently in the cover story of the current issue of The Seattle Weekly. In an article detailing the rise of Seattle's cupping culture, Weekly writer Jonathan Kauffman, chronicles one...
Stache..
As in mustache... Over the past weeks you may have noticed a little more facial hair on your favorite barista- maybe it was a beard on an otherwise clean cut guy or a pencil thin line across the upper lip of a usually smooth face. "Why?" you ask. Well last...
We are all still in awe...
We are all still in awe of election night- the speed at which the results came in and the decisiveness of the victory. What a shift from the last election cycle, when after hours of nail-biting we all went home in the dark not yet knowing the results. By the...