Decaffinated but decent

One of the sad­dest parts about grow­ing older is dis­cov­er­ing that caf­feine and I are not good friends. This is heart­break­ing, because I love cof­fee and would hap­pily drink it all day long if I could. But I can­’t. And I don’t mean I have to ask Monterey to cut me off at four cups […]

Lamason

There are many many ways to make a decent cup of cof­fee. We are see­ing some of these altern­ate meth­ods return­ing to com­mer­cial use around Wel­ling­ton’s more inter­est­ing cafés: the Swiss Gold; the Chemex; the V60; the cold drip… and the siphon. Dave Lama­son, formerly Peoples Cof­fee’s barista train­er, is pas­sion­ate about the siphon. So […]