April 2009

  1. First Fridays Street MRKT!

    04/29/09 - events

    So this Friday, May 1st, Anno Domini is proud to present STREET MRKT an indie DIY urban fair on South First Street, between San Carlos & San Salvador in the SoFA District, downtown San Jose. Between 7 and 10pm, artists, music, and open galleries will flourish across the downtown landscape, and Barefoot will be there slingin’ espresso and pouring over delicious coffee from our Melitta Bar.

    So come on out and support your local arts community in San Jose – it’s free! It’s awesome! And the springtime weather promises to be awesome for Friday night. Come out, celebrate creativity in a downtime economy, and drink some sweet coffee love!

    Visit www.southfirstfridays.com

    for more info! And barefootcoffee.com

    for us!

  2. Christian judging for El Salvador COE

    04/26/09 -

    Barefoot’s own Christian Rotsko is in El Salvador this week judging at the Cup of Excellence competition. This is his first COE judging trip. Excited and pumped barely captures it. There are 60 coffees that made it through the first five rounds of national jury selection. That is a lot of coffees to cup! Likely 25-30 will make it to the final cut.

    In addition to cupping those 60 coffees multiple times all week Christian is also visiting some of our farms for this year, Finca San Jose, Malacara and Teopan. Some killer coffee coming out of these three farms this year. We expect to see all three in the COE auction this year. Christian will also be cupping another 20-30 coffees outside the auction to find a certain gem coffee we have been searching for.

    Stay tuned for updates and info.

  3. El Socorro COE winner #4 on bar as SOS!

    04/26/09 - COFFEE

    Go get some right now! the incredibly sexual El Socorro COE winner is on bar today only as a single origin espresso! Get it while its hot!

  4. Mike Stemm of Dominion Trading Ethiopia at Barefoot!

    04/20/09 -

    Barefoot is bringing in Mike Stemm of Dominion Trading Company to talk about the amazing coffee and people work that Dominion Trading is doing in Ethiopia. Mike runs the U.S. side of the coffee import for Dominion Trading. Barefoot has been working with Mike Stemm and Dominion for three years now sourcing amazing coffee and building our relationship. Barefoot has been to Ethiopia twice to visit Dominion Trading and just returened a few weeks ago from the latest trip.

    Mike will be giving a presentation at the Barefoot cafe at 2:00 to 3:00 pm Wednesday April 22nd! All are welcome to attend and hear first hand how great coffee is produced in Ethiopia. Hear about the challenges facing Ethiopian farmers in these troubled times and hear about the work that Dominion Trading is doing to improve coffee quality and the lives of the coffee people.

    Then join Mike as he does an even more complete presentation along with Barefoot Catador Andy Newbom and Roast Master General Christian Rotsko as they present their respective origin trips to El Salvador and Ethiopia. This major meet the producer event is at Santa Clara University in the Kennedy Commons from 7:00 pm till 9:00 pm Wednesday April 22nd, 2009. The event is open to all and free of charge.

  5. Ethiopia Origin trip log

    04/08/09 -

    Christian finally finished his novella about his Ethiopia Origin trip.

    It may be safe to say that it is every coffee professionals dream to visit Ethiopia. After all it’s where it all started, the birthplace of coffee. Okay, maybe its not fair to speak for anyone else but when I got the email from Andy, the owner of Barefoot, saying that Boot Coffee Consulting had invited us to the third Ethiopian Roundtable Conference from February eighteenth to February twenty second, I could hardly conceal my excitement. Something to the effect of a jump kick and a yelp… you know how it goes. All I could think of was all the juicy sweet, Sidamos, Yirgacheffes, Limus, Djimas, Harars, and Kaffas that have graced my pallet over the years and how I would be in the land and among the people who made it possible…

    …read the rest of the article

  6. Coffee Origin Trip at SCU

    04/02/09 -

    At Barefoot Coffee Roasters, the work we do starts at origin. Join us, April 22nd at 7:00pm, in the Kennedy Commons of Santa Clara University, as we listen to Catador Andy Newbom and Roastmaster General Christian Rotsko talk about the work they did sourcing coffee and affirming Barefoots commitments to relationships in El Salvador and Ethiopia in February of this year. Including presentations utilizing pictures from farms our farms, personal anecdotes, and coffee, we’ll see more about how Barefoot works towards raising the bar in the coffee community, here and abroad.

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