by Kevin Sinnott | Jul 25, 2014 | Coffee, CoffeeCon, Consumer Coffee Festival, Uncategorized
As I write this we are both in our hotel room. Pat is tweeting. I have been sitting here, wondering. It is a little terrifying. This is our first out of town CoffeeCon. The Bay Area has all the right ingredients for success: a robust economy, a big coffee-drinking...
by Kevin Sinnott | Jul 1, 2014 | Coffee, Consumer Coffee Festival, Uncategorized
If you read my pre-CoffeeCon concerns, you’ll be happy to know most of my fears were unfounded. We had a good to great turnout, between 700-1000 happy coffee enthusiasts, with a healthy mix of those waiting to be baptized with great cups. You see it in their eyes when...
by Kevin Sinnott | Jun 13, 2014 | Consumer Coffee Festival
I realize I’m painstaking to everyone waiting to know, but I can’t help it. Where CoffeeCon happens is vital to my vision of it. Okay, after traveling, seeing every place possible to hold it, on Saturday July 26th at 9:00 am CoffeeCon will open its doors at the...
by Kevin Sinnott | Jun 1, 2014 | CoffeeCon, Consumer Coffee Festival, Uncategorized
I realize it’s been more than 40 days since CoffeeCon Chicago. Perhaps I’ve downgraded my Google rating by doing this, but I’ve been processing what I’ve learned from our last event, which was by most standards, our biggest success. This year...
by Kevin Sinnott | Apr 6, 2014 | Coffee, Coffee Roasters, CoffeeCon Videos, Farming, Uncategorized
I’m writing this on a Saturday morning. From late spring until fall I travel to a local farmers market. Discovering farmers markets transformed my life, or at least my diet. I used to count on supermarkets for all my produce, all my food really. Then I happened upon...