Comments on: Announcing This Week’s Theme: Coffee

By: kingturd

kingturd — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:05:30 +0000

I actually just saw that Crate and Barrel has a Wells Street Bold Blend from Intelligentsia with free shipping. Perhaps I’ll order that (or make a trip out there) to sample some of their wares.

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=837&f=14029

By: frigg

frigg — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:24:17 +0000

Should be a good week.

Looking forward to having huge, bloody holes shot into my many long-held biases!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:33:47 +0000

There’s a new place that opened up here in Grand Cayman that’s pushing Intelligentsia coffee & tea. I’ve heard that it’s out of Chicago, but I haven’t got around to looking it up just yet, so I’m glad to see that there’s going to be more coverage of it.

It was actually the little swirly thing in the image on this post in the RSS feed that caught my eye, because the, uhh, cupcakes (and they’re spectacular cupcakes, btw) down here do ‘the swirl’ on the top of the coffee as well.

One thing I’ve noticed with Intelligentsia beans, compared with, say Illy at the other coffee shop down here is that the “buzz” from caffeine is like a 12-hour cold pill… it keeps time-releasing and I’m still going from it around lunchtime, rather than a quick hit and then fade out before 10am.

By: kingturd

kingturd — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:42:29 +0000

I’ve never been to Intelligentsia before but I’ll check it out the next time I’m in Chicago. Their site does have a very nice selection of whole bean coffees. Perhaps as part of this week’s theme, Tonx could hook us up with some free shipping from their site?

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:02:31 +0000

Mmm. There is an Intelligentsia across the street from my apartment (obviously in Chicago). Very good. Though I like the taste of Lavazza a little better, I often can’t pass up that little swirl Inteligentsia does, and they have an awesome cupcake.