Appendix E-J

A few of us around Everyday Joe’s subscribe to the Very Short List. VSL is always a good source for something to occupy your time while it should be occupied by something else.

Recently, VSL pointed out the site TuneGlue. It helps you explore the degrees of separation between musicians, which fascinates me to no end…especially when I begin with artists who play here at Everyday Joe’s. I’d recommend starting with Josh Dillard and seeing where it takes you.

The only gripe I’ve heard is you can’t listen to the music of the folks who pop up. Fortunately, there are a multitude of sites to help you with that. FineTune or Pandora are nice.

Enjoy. This should help get you through Thursday & Friday and back to the weekend.

Further:

• TuneGlue
• Very Short List
• Josh Dillard Myspace
• FineTune
• Pandora

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This time of year, part of the Everyday Joe’s volunteer base always takes of to places across oceans and borders. The folks that serve here often have hearts that break for people, and at times feel they must go very far away in order to help heal some brokenness.

Case in point: Ms. Megan Flint.

Megan- who volunteered on Wednesday afternoons over the past 4 months – left on Tuesday for Thailand with her boyfriend Tony (a member of my favorite new Fort Collins-based band…The Riflemen). In Thailand, the wonder-couple will be working with victims of modern slavery & sex trafficking. They’ll be there until July and we’d positively love it if you kept up with them via their blog: .bangkok.thailand.

If you bought any jewelry from Everyday Joe’s lately, chances are it was made by Megan and you helped fund this trip. Thank you very much. You are wonderful.

Further:

• Tony & Megan’s Blog
• NightLight (the organization they’ll be working with)

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Hello there.

It’s been a few days since we’ve spoken. How are things? How was the long weekend? Productive? Relaxing? So awesome?

Just before the recent three day weekend began, there was a tornado in nearby Windsor, Colorado. Tornadoes have been on my list of fears since I read Night Of The Twisters in grade school. The other two things on that list are being stabbed and birds.

Darren Fred -- the pastor of Timberline Oldtown (the church that is in 144 S. Mason on Sundays and started Everyday Joe’s) -- lives in Windsor with his wife Mel, daughter Jessica, dog Thor and hamster LuLu. On Thursday afternoon, Denver’s 9News reported that the intersections hit hardest by the tornado were 1st & Garden and Cornerstone & Garden. The Fred residence is the corner lot of Cornerstone & Garden.

All living things at the home survived, as did the home itself (repair is necessary, but the Freds will return to their abode in early 2009). On Sunday, a large portion of the Everyday Joe’s and Timberline Oldtown family made the trek to Windsor to help the Freds and their neighbors through the beginning stages of putting reality back together. Everyday Joe’s executive director Daryle Dickens took his video camera along. The following is a portrait of family and community and brokenness and love and hope and joy and many many other things coming together quite perfectly.

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Further:

• Night Of The Twisters Video Clip
• Sassy The Cat’s survival story
• Donate to the American Red Cross Centennial Chapter Relief Funds

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Each week, I receive The Nod from Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea – the roaster who is kind enough to allow us to sell their wonderfully roasted beans in a drinkable form. Usually, The Nod is almost like a digital coffee classroom. This week, it’s like class went to recess and we’re here to have a good time.

Happy Friday.

As was mentioned last week, Geoff Watts (Intelligentsia Coffee Buyer) is currently in Rwanda and Matt (Intelligentsia Web Master and 2006 United States Barista Championship winner) and I were absolutely stunned to get a message from him this morning. Not only did he write something for us, but he described it as “kinda lengthy.” Coming from Mr. Watts, that means pages and pages. Sadly, something obviously got lost on the way from Africa because neither of us could open Geoff’s attachment. His stories will, unfortunately, have to wait until next week.

That means that this week we are going to do something a bit different. See the picture below? That is Doug Zell, Intelligentsia CEO and founder, at the Specialty Coffee Association of America in Minneapolis a couple of weeks back. What’s going on with that look on his face? We have no idea either, but whoever sends me the best caption for the picture will win two pounds of this week’s featured coffee: Fazenda do Sertão, Brazil.

The Fazenda do Sertão, Brazil is an Intelligentsia Reserve and having tasting it, I think that it is definitely worth your time to come up with a good caption. Send all entries to mjohnson@intelligentsiacoffee.com. We’ll let you know who won next week… when you can expect Geoff back in the saddle.

Last thing: You can order Black Cat, Single Origin Espresso: Matalapa, El Salvador – United Status Barista Competition, 1st Place until midnight Memorial Day. This is the coffee that Kyle Glanville used en route to winning the 2008 United States Barista Championship. Good stuff, only one roast day, get it while you can!

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend.

Cheers,

Marc Johnson

Director of Marketing

Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea

Further:

• Tasting notes for Fazenda do Sertao, Brazil

• Those Brazilians are alright at futbol.

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About a month ago, we started a new series on Appendix E-J called “Other People’s Coffee.” It is to be a reference guide of sorts…something to look to when you need to get a good cup of coffee on the road. An index of good third places.

The series started with C4 in Cave Creek, Arizona. A month later, the series has yet to expand past C4 in Cave Creek, Arizona. While there are several entries coming down the pipes, I believe this series presents a grand opportunity at community.

We want you to collaborate on this project. Chances are, you’ve been to a coffee shop that you would like all of your friends and their acquaintances to go to as well. Tell us about it, and we’ll take a look and post it as part of the “Other People’s Coffee Project.” That is correct, it just became a project…eight words ago.

The guidelines:

1. The coffee shop should be outside of Fort Collins, CO. Hopefully out of the state, although new shops are opening all the time in Colorado and it would be good to know about them.
2. If you own or manage the shop, don’t submit your own store (we have people…we will know).
3. This is not a forum to rip a coffee house to shreds. Any submission that even comes close to that will not be accepted.
4. If your submission is posted, we’ll give you a free drink.

How To Submit:

1. Send an e-mail to chris[at]everydayjoes[dot]org with the subject “Other People’s Coffee”
2. In the e-mail include:

• Name of the coffee shop
• Location (City & State)
• The drink you had there
• Your name & where you are from
• A description of the place…what you liked, what drew you there in the first place, some info about the drink, etc. Take creative license here.
• Attach a picture or two, if you like

That’s it. Go out and drink coffee, and then tell us about it. Thank you.

love.

Everyday Joe’s

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Summer is the time for blockbuster films. Blockbuster films are the time for blockbuster previews…previews that cost more to produce than I make in a year.

Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea is our blockbuster roaster of choice here at Everyday Joe’s, and they have released their blockbuster previews. Often, I find myself looking at Intelligentsia as our very cool and hip older sibling…and they’re kind enough to let us tag along and wear their hand-me-downs.Thankfully, the hand-me-downs are really, really good coffees.

This week, Intelligentsia’s “Nod” comes from Marc Johnson, their director of marketing. He has some exciting things to tell you about, so keep reading.

Greetings:

Geoff Watts (Intelligentsia’s Green Coffee Guru) is the usual author here, but even when he is in Chicago, he’s getting pulled in a million and one directions. It was really difficult to get him to do this on a weekly basis when we started this email three years ago (can you believe it’s been that long?), but he is pretty good about it when he is around. Today, sadly is not one of those days. Geoff is now in Rwanda and as hard as he works when he is there and as spotty as internet connections can be, I know not to expect anything. Of course, on the positive side, we’ll get lots of good information on African coffees when he returns.

Second choice? Doug Zell (Intelligentsia’s CEO) is always good for a post or two, but seeing how he just posted last week and was in New York working on a super-secret project for a while this week (we’ll tell you more when we know more), he gets a pass as well.

Third choice? Hmmmm, maybe KC O’Keefe? KC is our West Coast Director of Operations and he also does a lot of work sourcing coffee in Latin America and so always has something interesting to say about coffee. Well, I called LA this morning on another topic and was on hold for like 10 minutes, so I am going to assume our friends in LA are busy roasting coffee for both our Silver Lake coffeebar and the Wholesale Accounts on the West Coast.

Fourth choice, fifth, sixth? Kyle Glanville (winner of the United States Barista Competition and Manager of Espresso Research & Development) has written pages for me already this week. Sarah Kluth (Director of Quality Control) has also written a ton this week. Chris Hallien (our new Director of Roasting) does tons of work with coffee, but since this is first week, I am going to give him more time before I hit him up.

Where does that leave us? You’re hearing from the Marketing Guy.

Hey, don’t stop reading yet because we have a large number of really cool things coming up:

Intelligentsia In Season – I am not going to give away too much here, but let’s just say that no one is going to be able to offer any fresher, better tasting coffees than Intelligentsia. Keep checking www.inseasoncoffee.com for updates.

The Black Cat Project – Intelligentsia espresso is moving to a new and exciting place. Here again, details will be coming, but you should check www.blackcatcoffee.com for updates on our Black Cat Espresso and Kyle Glanville’s training for the World Barista Competition in June in Copenhagen.

New Crop Centrals – Today Sarah Kluth gave us the news that some old favorites will be returning to our coffee line-up in early June. Woo-woo.

El Machete, Panama – This coffee is a new Direct Trade offering that will be available in a week or so.

New Coffee Releases this week – Black Cat, Single Origin Espresso: Anjilanaka, Organic Bolivia; Los Inmortales, El Salvador Micro-Lot: Finca Matalapa; Fazenda do Sertão, Brazil. When one week gives you a Single Origin Espresso, a Micro-Lot from El Salvador, and a Reserve Offering from Brazil, you consider yourself lucky.

And lastly, the focus of this Nod…

This week, we are proud to release our Black Cat, Single Origin Espresso: Matalapa, El Salvador – United States Barista Competition, 1st Place. This is the coffee that Kyle Glanville used en route to his victory at the USBC. It is now available to pre-order, it will be offered web-only and we will only roast it once: Monday, May 26th. Get it while you can!

As always, find our Nods at:
http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/origin/offerings.

Cheers,

Marc Johnson
Director of Marketing
Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea

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Relevant Magazine has again taken notice of our friends in the Enter The Worship Circle community and reviewed the newest album produced by said collective, Fourth Circle. Relevant seems to enjoy it quite a bit. You can read the review here. That’s all. You’re nice.

Have a nice Sunday.

love.

Everyday Joe’s

Further:

• Audio Treat: Enter The Worship Circle
• Fourth Circle discussion on The Blackthorn Project Blog
• Order Enter The Worship Circle: Fourth Circle

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Yesterday, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, who’s beans we serve with love and extra care, released three reserve coffees that seem quite fabulous. The flavors they leave on my digital palette are expert.

The Black Cat is what Mr. Kyle Glanville (who looks a bit like Sufjan Stevens) served en route to becoming the best barista in the U.S. of A.

Here’s all the info. Links to ordering the beans are at the bottom of the post.

Black Cat, Single Origin Espresso: Anjilanaka, Organic Bolivia

Location: Caranavi

Varietal: Typica, caturra, bourbon

Altitude: 1700 – 1900m

Harvest: Jun – Aug

Flavor: Milk chocolate, cane sugar

Acidity: Bursting tropical fruit candy, pear

Finish: Clean, sweet, orange zest

This espresso is a powerhouse of juicy sweet flavor. Pulled as a short double, your palate is greeted with explosive tropical fruit like kiwis and mangos, which gives way to a buttery body and a lingering, sweet finish. Pulled a little longer and you’ll taste tons of cane sugar while the acidity subsides ever so slightly.

Los Inmortales, El Salvador Micro-Lot: Finca Matalapa*

Region: La Libertad

Varietal: Bourbon, Pacas

Altitude: 1250 m

Harvest: Dec – Mar

Flavor: White grape, apple, floral

Acidity: Citrus, balanced

Finish: Silky, cane sugar

Full of grace and nuance, the Finca Matalapa Micro-Lot introduces itself with delicate floral aromatics. The juicy citrus acidity sits aside notes of sweet apple and white grape as the body glides like silk into a finish of cane sugar and vanilla.

Fazenda do Sertão, Brazil*

Location: Carmo de Minas

Varietal: Bourbon

Altitude: 1200m

Harvest: Jun – Aug

Flavor: Caramel, sweet orange, fudge

Acidity: Balanced, dried mango

Finish: Smooth, buttery, Dutch chocolate

A pulped natural from the Carmo de Minas growing region, this coffee lends itself to an atypical complexity that wins the hearts of washed coffee lovers. The body is smooth and silky as notes of caramel and toffee wash across the palate. The acidity is subtle but worth noting with its Clementine orange juiciness and dried mango fruit tang. Leading into the buttery finish are nuances of cardamom and honey as the end note of Dutch chocolate plays pleasantly on the tongue.

Further:

• Order The Reserves
• Watch Kyle Glanville Live At The United States Barista Championships
• Watch Sufjan Stevens Live At Schubas

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Hold on there, buddy. Put that economic stimulus check back in your pocket.

Appendix E-J has music for you, but it’s positively free. Free for you to download and listen to again and again and again until the musical structures have seared themselves into your brain and they become the soundtrack to all your thoughts.

Our friends in the Autumn Film are starting to make quite the name for themselves down in Denver, as well as reaching their musical tentacles out into other musical communities (Aubrea Alford plays violin on Trace Bundy’s new DVD). Although the official release date for this EP is on May 20, they’d like you to have it now. Just click on the picture.

Further:

• The Autumn Film official site
• The Autumn Film myspace

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As part of celebrating our 5th anniversary, someone who is part of Everyday Joe’s will write something about it each month. Anything from essays to sonnets to interpretive dance. How interpretive dance would translate to this blog, I’m not sure…but it’d be interesting.

Whatever is written, it will come from the life that is in this building. 144 S. Mason seems to be alive and breathing…and it is something you can’t ignore when you walk in. Number five has been written by Chris Hess, Everyday Joe’s assistant director and concert boooking man. He is also very loud.

Crema is something that is very important to us here at 144 S. Mason.

So is life.

Crema is that magnificent layer of flavor and goodness that sits on top of a well-drawn shot of espresso. It, however, is only the beginning. Below it are the heart and body of the shot…living in the thick dark mystery of the coffee extract. The crema is only the beginning.

Life is, well, life. It is made up of times of celebration followed by curveballs that seemed to be aimed at the center of your heart. When they hit, your lungs collapse and your eyes go wide and you wait for the air to return. Often, the community around you must perform CPR. Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.

There is a man. His name is Frank. For 9 months, he sat on the couch in the foyer at 144 S. Mason. He sat, and he stared out the window. Sometimes he would sit outside. Mostly, he would sit on the couch. He ate more than several pouches of trail mix. Many of you came to know him and he came to know many of you. A curveball had hit him in the heart. His lungs had collapsed.

Frank dealt with severe depression. His days consisted of walking from where he slept to Everyday Joe’s and back to the place he slept. Outside of this he was paralyzed.The variations in his day consisted of the people who would walk in and out of 144 S. Mason. You loved him. In November of 2007, Frank entered a treatment program.

3 weeks ago, I was working behind the bar cleaning dishes. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone walk up to the counter. I turned around to help, and there was Frank. He wore a purple polo shirt with a pen tucked between the buttons. He ordered a decaf Mocha. We sat and talked about the housing market, the election, renewable fuels, the price of gas in California in the 1980s, the History channel, and all of you. He asked about so many people. He has his own place where he is living. He wants to go see the Doobie Brothers. This past Wednesday, he began volunteering at Everyday Joe’s. You performed CPR. You saved a man’s life.

Frank’s tale is full of truth and life. It is a testament to family and community and true love. It is the crema. It is a celebration of more variables than we can imagine coming together in grace. What must be remembered, though, is that the crema is just the beginning. Below it is the mystery. When you dig deeper, when you pursue it into the darkness, you will find this everywhere. People with lungs collapsed. Needing breath. Needing wounds healed. It can begin here, but it must not end here. We are family. We must take care of each other.

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