June 2011
5 posts
May 2011
4 posts
Victoria Day Hours
Museo will be open 9 to 4 this Victoria Day… Try our latest espresso blend, mk4 straight up, as a short capp, or over ice - of the latter, there are few things as refreshing on a hot day!
Museo closed early Thursday May 12
Just a quick update that Museo will be closed at 330 this Thursday the 12th. Our hours otherwise will remain unchanged for the remainder of the month.
reminder: museo closed may 7th
Just a quick reminder that Museo will be closed all day Saturday May 7th for the Mendel’s Mothers’ Day Tea. We will be back in action at regular hours on Sunday!
Have a great weekend!
April 2011
6 posts
easter weekend hours
Just a heads up that Museo is open Easter Friday from 10-4:30. Regular hours apply elsewhere. Please be prepared for lineups and/or wait times as this tends to be a very busy weekend. Thank-you and see you at the cafe!
Museo closed Sunday April 17 @ 12:30
Just a last minute note, Museo will be closed at 12:30 on April 17th.
Sorry for any inconvenience/undercaffeination this may cause!
Museo Closed Early Fri Apr 15
Just a reminder that Museo is closed at 3:30 today, for Mendel Art Gallery opening later tonight. Regular hours throughout the rest of the weekend, otherwise.
let's get this weekend start'ed!
Finally, some sunshine and warmth is gracing our fine city, right in time for the weekend! First person to comment, gets a free espresso-based drink at museo this weekend.
Bob, who’s it going to be?
March 2011
9 posts
Pourover ist fallen!!!
Some nerds make a most delightful video on a pourover controversy. Genießen!!
upcoming coffees
We have a few more coffees coming next week; you should see them on our shelves by Friday.
Ethiopia Sidama Bonko
Ethiopia Limu Nigusie Lemma (dry processed)
Rwanda Remera Nyarusiza
Papua New Guinea Kimel AA
Colombia Los Galapones (Manuel Santacruz)
The last coffee in particular, I am excited about. Colombia has pioneered a program that allows farmers to micromill their coffee and sell it separately from pooled lots. Within this system, farms as small as a few hectares can sell their coffee through traceable means. The benefit of this is the individual landowning farmer can market and sell their coffee and reap the profits directly. This is a great program and unlike co-operatives, encourages smallholder land ownership.
We also have one last roast of Sumatra Blue Batak remaining as well as one last roast of Rwanda Rushashi - they will be on our shelves this weekend, so if you loved these coffees, now is your last chance!
“Starbucks isn’t marketing (or trademarking-for the paranoiacs out there) the word “bold.” It’s an approachable descriptor that they’ve organized their whole bean menu around for decades so that some unsuspecting folgers drinker doesn’t wander in off the street, order the Kenya, only to taste grapefruit notes, soil themselves, and forget who they are for a half hour.”
—My favourite quote of the moment, courtesy of Mr. Brett Hanson. Although it has been noted by others, no Sbux coffee has ever exhibited notes of grapefruit. :)
the green [buyer's] perspective on rising coffee prices (link) →
cafeimports.com
Astute words and a short but sweet read, from Tim O’Brien, who works for CafeImports, a major green coffee importer out of Minneapolis, MN.
“Having just returned from 3 origin countries and seeing a very different atmosphere in the coffee regions than I normally would witness, it seemed that at origin these prices are a huge “fix” over the many years of inequitable or even artificially low coffee prices in many coffee regions that allowed many small producers survive, but very little else. These are some good times for producers and, for many, there are now some extra funds to invest in the coffee farm, fix up the house, get new clothes, send kids to school, pay off debts, and fix the work truck.”
http://www.cafeimports.com/grinder/2011/03/the_coffee_fix.php
