Not applauding intellectual property infringement, but at the same time it is not surprising this happens when 90% of the products cost is for the intellectual property rather than manufacturing cost

When I have something nice like the Pig Iron Kochere, I sometimes wonder if I pick on Toronto roasters too much. Yesterday I had a shot of Pig Iron Ethiopian Guji. It was smoky and bitter. Reaffirmed my belief about the consistency of their quality

Will be picking up the pen soon, but mostly writing about Ottawa for now ... Great to hear that a place has picked up Stumptown in Toronto... curious to visit it ... although much more excited about Boxcar Social Propellor ... if anybody followed my twitter, I was rather frank about what I tasted (e...

As a former Toronto guy, I would trust Tony. I have also heard many good comments about Boxcar. As a fairly new Ottawa guy, my go to place is Ministry of Coffee (Elgin and now Parkdale Market locations). They rotate their roaster weekly - Heart, P&S, Bows and Arrows, George Howell, and 49th Parallel.

Totally agree with Steve that this is awesome coffee. Just got through some bags myself which I enjoyed quite a lot. The Guatemalan based Red Brick was very nice, and the Kenyan peaberry was a nice treat on my V60

Top 3 in order for me at the moment are: 49th Parallel, Phil and Sebastian, and Transcend. I was really impressed with the Alberta Roasters as I have recently featured them on my blog. I am also surprised that nobody has mentioned Bows and Arrows as I was fairly impressed. Curious to try Anchored as...

I started with a Silvia/Rocky combo about 7 years ago, and I am now with a Rocket Giotto / K10 Fresh since last year. Only started with the blog (blog.coffeestork.com) two years ago, but it's been great fun meeting people and learning more about coffee. I used to be afraid of acidity, now I pretty m...

Had a great tour and some great visits a few weekends ago ... {link}

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Again a big thanks to everyone for their time in offering some really great help. Just to round out the story in case anyone was curious. After giving the water probe a good sanding, I still had water spurting issues, so I took it to IDrinkCoffee in Milton. They were very helpful and fixed my machin...