by Alex Maloof | Oct 25, 2020 | coffee
After a lifetime of drinking coffee, I have been introduced to chai. “Introduced?! It’s been around forever.” Clarity, I have known of its existence, and tried it before. Lots. Every time it was this cloyingly sweet or hyper spicy weird beverage that...
by Alex Maloof | Oct 12, 2020 | coffee
You know what time of year it is when the pumpkin varieties of absolutely everything become available. Pumpkin soap? Pumpkin aerosol air freshener? Pumpkin flavor trees that hang from your rear-view mirror? Enough! Wait. Oh! pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. PSL for...
by Alex Maloof | Sep 29, 2020 | coffee
September 29th might just be the best day ever. Well, if you’re reading this then you might get what I’m saying. How could you not love this day? Do you anxiously flip through the wall calendar and mark the days off waiting all year till today? Of course...
by Alex Maloof | Sep 11, 2020 | coffee
So there was a problem. All of a sudden, the espresso machine was not getting the right amount of juice anymore. The water boiler was not…uh…boiling. Within this remarkable espresso apparatus was an electrical relay that told the energy where to go and...
by Alex Maloof | Sep 3, 2020 | coffee
So I had the new espresso machine. It was time to rehome the old one I had so lovingly cared for all those years. Where should it go? Where could it go? I had to rehome it somewhere I knew it would be cherished and used daily. Still had some life left. You don’t...
by Alex Maloof | Aug 13, 2020 | coffee
So it was twelve years later. I had used the heck out of my that machine, the Estro Vapore. Given it so much TLC and love. Rebuilt the insides, gone to the local hardware and replaced screws that had sheared off from use and age, but it was at the end of its life. It...
