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Over the past few years, you may have noticed a Costa Rican coffee called “Manuel Arce” on our menu.  We have been working with Manuel “Macho” Arce for the past...

Baristas from all around the US came to Topeka to compete in this event. Each barista was randomly placed on a team that competed in three separate scored events, each...

I recently visited Topeka to attend the inaugural Flatlanders Barista Cup, which is a weekend where baristas around the Midwest US (and beyond) come to have a friendly team competition...

Jeremy Ho and Ben Put, both longtime baristas at Phil & Sebastian, took first and second place respectively at the 2012 Canadian Barista Championships, held this past weekend in Toronto at...

In this year’s Regional Prairie Barista Competition, our top baristas placed first and second giving them the opportunity to represent the prairies in the 2012 Canadian National Barista Competition held...

Here in our cafès, we are very excited to re-launch our coffee tasting series this year. We are incredibly passionate about our coffee and cannot wait to be share the...

March 30th, 2007 marked our first day at the Calgary Farmers’ Market. It’s been an incredible five years of learning, sharing, drinking lots of coffee and enjoying meeting a world...

Discover& Harvest& Roast& Grind& Brew& Sip& Wonder. As part of Coffee Common’s slogan and mantra, it also is a simplified description of the steps of coffee from seed to cup....

This week, Chris and I have been given the incredible opportunity to be a part of an amazing coffee service at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, California, arranged by...

The weekend of August 6th marked the first event put together by the Prairie Coffee Project (@prairiecoffee).  This organization is directed by Transcend Coffee, Fratello Coffee and Phil & Sebastian...

  It’s fast approaching this year’s Regional Barista Competition hosted at Fratello Coffee Roasters on Saturday. Our competitors, Chris Tellez and Jeremy Ho are in the final stages of preparing...

I find myself with some extra time in Bogota, so I thought I would try to articulate some of my present observations on coffee production here in Colombia. While I...