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Information and Review Sites
- Coffee FAQ: Everything you ever wanted know in a handy format. Thanks Scott
- CoffeeGeek: Espresso Wunderkind, Mark Prince; features equipment reviews and many more consumer reviews
- Home-Barista.com: High-end espresso equipment reviews for the home market and how to's
- Coffee Review: Ken David's, the popularizer of homeroasting, monthly reviews of roast coffees
- Coffee History: Mommy, why are those goats dancing?
- Schomer's Table: Comprehensive guide to much in the coffee world.
- HV's Comprehensive Coffee Links: You wanted more links?
- Espresso Italiano: If you want the official Italian, and quite poetic definition of espresso
- The Coffee Research Organization: a useful information website on coffee basics including espresso
- Water FAQ: Jim's piece on water for coffee and espresso
Newsgroups and Forums
- Alt.coffee: the first Internet coffee hangout. web access via Google
- CoffeeGeek Forums: Only a few years old, but closing fast.
Roasters and cafés
- Riley's Coffee and Fudge: Barry Jarrett, the owner, is the first pro who took notice of people talking coffee on the Internet. So Riley's is hereby named the official café/roaster of the Coffee-Internet. Also, June's fudges are so good, they might start an Internet of their own
- Intelligentsia: In Jim's hometown, Chicago. Great coffee, great people
- Gillies: New York's Don Schoenholt is one of the founders of specialty coffee, and a great supporter of coffee enthusiasts
- Dallis Brothers: Gillies NYC competitors, also terrific people
- Gimme Coffee: There's good coffee descriptions, there's bad coffee descriptions, then there's Gimme's descriptions. But the educational material is solid enough for a banker
- Counter Culture Coffee: Real espresso in the Old South? You bet. Another great supporter of us enthusiasts
- Hines Public Market: Seattle Haut café. Seattle is the center of North American coffee culture
- Zoka: More Seattle
- Café Victrola: More Seattle
- Caffé D'Arte: You guessed it
- Espresso Vivace: Last but not least Seattle. There's lot's more, but I'm tired of typing Seattle
- Stumptown: In Portland; one of the best in North America
- Supreme Bean: LA's roaster to the stars; nevertheless, their espresso blends are great.
- The Roasterie: Kansas City cafe and source for green and roasted coffees including signature espresso blends. Sivitz fluid bed air roasters are used.
Home Roasting and Green Coffee
- Sweet Maria's: Not just a vendor; but the Free University of home roasting too.
- Coffee Bean Corral: Russ sits on a Hawaian porch sipping coffees. The ones that fit, he sells.
- Coffee Wholesalers: Chuck is a roaster who sells some of his stock green, and occasionally makes neat gizmos for home roasters
- Coffee Project: James sells mainly to café roasters, but his list is also available to home roasters
- Green Coffee Coop: 5lb lots of coffee, at coop prices, vetted by Bob.
- Cate's Green Coffee: A relatively large and diverse selection of green beans for home roasters.
- LavaRock Farm: Lavarock Farm in Captain Cook on the big island of Hawaii, produces 100% pure Kona Coffee, roasted and green.
- Cafe Maria: Highly regarded Chicago area craft roaster.
- Kuhlman's Koffee: New Orleans coffee roaster offers custom blends, 100% Arabica beans and free shipping.
- Paradise Roasters: The newest superstar in the specialty coffee business, with an unbroken streak of 90+ ratings on Ken David's Coffee Review site.
- Caracolillo Coffee Mills, Inc. (CCM): A third generation, family-owned business in Tampa, Florida that sells low-priced roasted and green coffee on the Internet..
- Treasures Coffee & Tea Company AKA Jateg Coffee Roasters: A family-owned Sun Valley, California microroaster with 50 years of roasting experience.
- Coffee Bean Direct: A central New Jersey roaster priding themselves on roasting their coffee just prior to shipment.
- Hacienda San Pedro: A coffee plantation in Central Puerto Rico selling high quality Arabica, both roasted and green beans, internationally. Supplier to Yauco Selecto.
- Santa Maria Family Estate/AMA CAFE: A coffee plantation established in 1870 in El Salvador growing high quality Bourbon Arabica beans.
- Stanton Coffee Roasters: Four racing championships, an Indy 500 win and award winning coffees from their "Racing Roaster"; Stanton Coffee has been revving up your day since 1999.
- PT's Coffee Company: A quality-oriented roaster specializing in sourcing high quality coffees and promoting sustainability within the coffee industry.
- Flamenco Organic: A microroaster of exclusively Fair Trade organic coffees.
- Quarry Microroasters: Artisan roasted exotic coffees for the connoisseur.
- Hula Daddy: Hula Daddy is a boutique coffee farm on the Hualalai volcano in the Kona, Hawaii coffee district, five minutes above the town of Kona.
- Bolaven Farms: A Laotian farm working in conjuntion with the government to train and empower subsistence farmers to grow coffee so that thay can improve their lives.
- Juan Tama Coffee: Juan Tama is a Colombian association of around 1,800 indigenous and afro-indian farmers in Cauca. It produces certified organic coffees which it sells roasted and green.
- Doi Chaang Coffee: A coffee plantation in Northern Thailand growing Arabica beans and gathering coffee expelled by wild Civet cats.
- Maya Earth Coffee: An organization dedicated to the sales and marketing of coffee grown by indigenous Mayan farmers in Guatemala.
- Cuatro Sombras: A Puerto Rican 100% Arabica coffee from Hacienda Santa Clara whose roots go back to the mid-1800's.
- P&F Coffee Limited: A coffee company located in Thailand and selling dry-processed coffee from the Doi Chang Lisumi Estate..
Internet Coffee Equipment Vendors
- Whole Latte Love: One of the original Internet home coffee equipment vendors
- 1st-line Equipment: The other original
- Chris' Coffee Service: A commercial coffee equipment retailer who also sells high-end home equipment
Personal Websites and Blogs
- Bread, Coffee, Yoga, and Chocolate: if there's a role model for coffee enthusiasts, it's Fortune
- Espresso! My Espresso: The ultimate love story: boy meets espresso machine ... But seriously, Randy's site has tons of solid info on everything an espresso lover wants to know
- God Shot: Chris of Stumptown's blog. Chris Tacy is a "3rd wave" barista: a taster, a roaster, and an officer of the Barista Guild of America.
Professional Associations
- SCAA: Specialty Coffee Association of America. The industry group for real coffee. Join as a consumer-member
- NCA: National Coffee Association. The enemy. Industry group for Folgers, etc.
- Barista Guild of America: A new association formed by enthusiastic and knowledgeable professional baristas
- Roasters Guild: The association for professional craft roasters.
