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Harvey Steiman At Large
What we can learn from a tour of coffee joints in Honolulu
Posted: February 8, 2013 By Harvey Steiman
Whenever I hang out with serious coffee people, I am struck by how much we wine folks have in common with them. We obsess over the sources of the product and how it was made. We even use some of the same language. Coffee tasters assess acid balance, body, intensity and finish, as we do with wine, and describe aromatics such as fruit, nuts and floral notes. They might find winy character in their brews while we might notice a hint of coffee on the finish in our glasses.
I watched my cousin Shawn Steiman, a coffee consultant who seems to be the coffee guru for the state of Hawaii, blend Hawaiian-grown and -roasted coffee beans on the spot. He used to make a distinctive and heady espresso after the dinner he and his bride Julia cooked for my wife and me at their home near Diamond Head.
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Plus, Monterey County invests in wine-themed murals, a wine bucket for the man who has everything and a Costa Rican researcher blurs the line between wine and coffee
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A Californian works to upgrade Kona coffee
Posted: January 19, 2010 By Harvey Steiman
There are more parallels than you might think between winegrowing and the growing and roasting of coffee, as a visit with a cutting-edge coffee grower in Kona, Hawaii shows. Like vintners, coffee estates try to push the envelope on quality.
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