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So…apparently the rapture is supposed to go down this coming Saturday – 5.21.11. We’re going to ring it in by hosting a benefit coffee tasting for one of our favorite things: Ruminate Magazine.

Quite a few coffee shops hold coffee tastings & cuppings. They are important. They teach you about what you are drinking, and that is important to know.

Everyday Joe’s wants to continue this idea, but put our twist on it. Enter: Coffee & Goodness. Each Coffee & Goodness event serves two purposes:

1. Educate you about coffee & its intricacies

2. Benefit an organization doing Good.

We’ll be serving one coffee bean four ways so you can taste it in all its glory. Admission ($8) will include a sample of each preperation: Hario V60 Pourover, Clever Coffee Dripper, French Press, and Espresso. At each brew station, there will be folks to help your palate along and tell you what tastes to be looking for.

Back a few years ago, we hosted the Ruminate Magazine launch party…& we’re so glad that our relationship with them continues. They produce good and great art and the future for them is exciting. Come down and drink coffee and learn about these good folks.

The bean this time around in the PNG Kunjin from the fellas at Novo Coffee. It’s become one of our favs as of late, and we think you’ll agree it’s definitely worth taking the time to imbibe it.

Your $8 will get you a 4 oz. sample of each of the three brew methods, plus a single espresso. The good people of Novo were kind enough to donate all the coffee for the event, so Ruminate will walk away with $7 for every person that comes through the doors. The event starts at 1 pm, and is run open house style until we’re done at 4 pm.

Come and get it.

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If you come into Everyday Joe’s during the early morning hours, chances are you will hear the album Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens playing. I don’t know why, but something about being groggy and making coffee to that particular collection of songs is nice. Then, by the end of it, you’re ready for something to shake your rump to…like Huey Lewis & The News.

Today, a tribute/cover/benefit/reimagining of Seven Swans was released. It’s exciting enough that my head started buzzing a little little bit. The reimagining is titled On Joyful Wings. It is missing “Abraham” due to some things out of the curator’s control, but apparently that cut is coming down the pipes. It does have the other 14 songs, performed by:

 Bonnie “Prince” Billy (wow wow), The Gregory Brothers, Derek Webb, Joshua James, Unwed Sailor, Wakey! Wakey!, Elin K Smith, DM Stith, Half-Handed Cloud, Carl Hauck, David Crowder* Band, Jason Harrad, Shannon Stephens w. Gregory Paul, and Inlets

On Joyful Wings will only run you $10, and all profits will go to benefit Komen For The Cure.

Download the album at Bandcamp, or go ahead and listen to it below. Then buy it. It’s only $10. If you don’t like it, someone else will and you can give it to them. Help defeat breast cancer.

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Why try to use words to explain something when a bang-up video does the job?

This is happening at Everyday Joe’s on December 4, 10 am -- 3 pm. If you know someone who needs a family portrait taken, send them down.

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The only problem with volunteers is that they most of the time eventually leave. Howevs – many Everyday Joe’s volunteers leave and begin to do things that make us proud.

Latest example: Missy Splittgerber (formerly Larson) and her husband Jonathan (always Splittgerber).

Together, the two are helping start Grace Orphanage in Togo, Africa. Jonathan has been working on it for years now. Missy came into the picture just over a year ago, already with plans to move to Africa once she finished school. She didn’t know what she’d do there. Then she met Jonathan. Then they got married. Now, they move to Africa in a couple weeks. This coming Friday (October 8), we’ll be hosting a benefit for the orphanage. Deets from the organization’s blog:

We have our first-ever, much-anticipated fundraiser happening Friday, October 8th at 7pm at Everyday Joe’s Coffee House (144 S Mason St, Ft Collins, CO). There will be live music from local superstars SHEL. Also Hors D’ouvres. And T-shirts and tote bags. We will be talking about the needs of the orphanage as well as our plans for the future. We are leaving next month and will be there for almost 6 months to make sure the money is being spent wisely and everything stays on-track. We would love to see you this friday – no pressure, just come to listen and ask questions!

It would be great to see your nice face here then. If you can’t make it, consider making a donation after you read further on the orphanage’s blog.

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Coffee is an impressive thing. Tasting it can be like tasting wine…or in this town…delicious beer.

However, it is just a thing. Things are best when made useful. We make quality, ethical coffee mostly useful by serving it to people/using it as a way to serve people. We also want to educate folks about coffee. When you know where things come from, it makes them more useful.

In an effort to take coffee from mostly useful to very useful…and to further serve people…we host occasional happenings called Coffee & Goodness. We all taste coffee together. We learn where it comes from. We learn how to respect the hard work that got it to us. We learn about a local organization and all the profits from the tasting go to that organization.

Our next Coffee & Goodness is this coming Saturday, September 18. We will be benefiting The Matthews House, an “organization that serves at-risk youth ages 16-21 that lack significant family support in their lives. We work to create opportunities for positive life change for these youth as they make the transition to living on their own.”

The coffee we will be tasting is the Santa Monica from Concordia, Columbia – roasted by our pals at Novo Coffee.

Cost is $8, which gets you a sample of the coffee brewed 4 different ways. Come by any time between 2 & 5 p.m. to start the coffee circuit.

See you then.

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So…

Since we heard of The Great Pennsylvania Car Fire and it’s wrath upon the gear and other things of Candy Claws, we’ve been working behind these scenes to figure out good ways to help the Candies get back on their feet. The results are as follows:

• This coming Friday (7.16), 50% of sales will be donated to Candy Claws. The insurance co. is not covering the loss, so we must do our part. If you can’t make it in to buy things, you can donate here.
• Second – come August 13, we will host a benefit concert for the band featuring Candy Claws themselves, Ocean Floor, and Holly Faml’y. There will be a minimum $5 cover charge to get in. You can always give more.

Therefore, we will see you on Friday when you buy things to support the boys and girls victimized by the Great Pennsylvania Car Fire. In the meantime, enjoy the nice pre-car fire video below from Candy Claws’ show in Boston…thanks thanks to the Foundwaves blog for that. Plus, you might see an Everyday Joe’s shirt pop up on stage.

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99.99% of the time, the folks who volunteer at Everyday Joe’s are here because their heart desires to take care of people. When they move on from behind the bar or soundboard, it is not because their heart has changed but because it is being called to other places.

Rachel Robichaux is a good lady/Everyday Joe’s volunteer. Her heart has taken her & her camera to India as of late, where she has found herself in love with/heart-broken by the women of the Devadasi system – “in which girls are dedicated to the goddess Yellamma for a lifetime of ritualized prostitution.”

Injustice exists all over the planet earth. Rachel is helping to fight this particular injustice. She has a short essay & photo collection up on JPG Magazine’s site. If her piece receives enough votes, it will be featured in the print edition of JPG. Please head over, vote, and help spread the word of something that needs to be squelched.

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Would you like to see the beginnings of something? Here you go:

Over the past year, we have been forcing ourselves to think more creatively about the idea of being non-profit. One manifestation of forced creativity are our Coffee & Goodness events. They are great and we have one in development we will announce very soon.

Another manifestation that we are very excited about are Benefit Beverages. The Dickens Chocolatte was the first of these – with all profits going to CoCOA: The Colorado Coalition Of Artists.

The time has now come for a second beverage which is near and dear to our hearts…and delicious.

A couple months ago – as part of our Other People’s Coffee series – we profiled Sola Coffee Bar in Scottsdale, AZ. It is non-profit. It is volunteer powered. It is a place of relationship. It is run by people we sat and talked with when it was just a hope in their hearts. It is in the desert.

You know what else is in the desert? Agave.

The picture of beginnings up there is the beginnings of the Sola Agave Latte – our next Benefit Beverage. Just a bit of agave nectar goes a long way. We find that when it is factored into a latte, it is astoundingly tasty. And when all the profits from the drink go to Sola Coffee Bar, it tastes even better.

We now encourage you to come in and enjoy. The Sola Agave Latte will be available for a limited time. Try it hot. Try it iced. Try it for your mother.

FURTHER:

• Other People’s Coffee: Sola Coffee Bar
• Sola Coffee Bar official site

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Last night, We headed down to Irvine for good burgers and a lecture sponsored by the Veritas Forum. The man speaking was an impressive man – the founder of Not For Sale amongst other things.

The lecture was good. It was nice to be in a lecture hall again, as odd as that sounds. Ben ran into a fellow he knows from a summer job. Many good things were said, but one particularly rang true with Everyday Joe’s:

“We are all created uniquely and with gifts. We must use those gifts to serve others.”

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We’ve talked about coffee brewing methods here before (please refer to this and this). Various brew methods result in various delicious results. It’s a fun time.

Back in September we thought, “We want to host coffee tastings.” Then we thought, “These tastings need to be about more than coffee.” One last thought occured, “The tastings should benefit people doing good things.”

And so those thoughts formed one larger thought that was acted on and out came Coffee & Goodness. It is an afternoon of coffee exploration to benefit good things. The upcoming Coffee & Goodness (Saturday March 6) will benefit the Fort Collins Food Co-Op. We will be exploring a coffee from Ethiopia: Amaro Gayo Sun-Dried. It will be explored 4 different ways:

• Hario V60 Drip
• Clever Coffee Dripper
• French Press
• Espresso

The doors are open from 2-5 pm. Come by any time during those hours and receive 6 oz. samples of Hario, Clever, and French Press and a double shot of the espresso. You can tell us things, we can tell you things, we can exlpore the flavor wheel, we can draw pictures…all for just $7.

PLUS, our good friends at Novo Coffee have generously and graciously and lovingly donated all the beans, so nearly all of that $7 will go directly to the FC Food Co-Op. Prolific!

See you then.

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