Where have we been?

Where have we been?

Hey out there, everyone! It has been a long time, and a lot of coffee has passed these lips since the website was regularly updated and the podcast was ended. I think it is time for a new leaf to be turned over. I miss doing the show, and I miss being able to share...

Coffee doodle: para coffee

Coffee doodle: para coffee

We have all been there, either on vacation or in some remote office where your good coffee has run out. And you sit there staring down the barrel of a cup of almost coffee. All the planning in the world can't fix fate. So you man or woman up and drink the available...

Vacation coffee

Vacation coffee

Nothing is more relaxing than sitting in a balcony on vacation sipping a steaming cup of fresh coffee. But you have to be prepared. This is what you will find in your room.... If you are lucky. A tiny personal, hopefully clean way to make pre prepared coffee satchels....

Coffee Origins

Coffee Origins

You would think a few tidbits about coffee would be common knowledge. It is the second most popular beverage in the world after water, and it is also the second most traded item after oil. So it keeps us running and hydrated to a large extent. But most people don't...

Cold Brew Saves the Day

Cold Brew Saves the Day

My favorite summertime drink is coffee... Come to think of it my favorite anytime drink is coffee, so that isn't a huge surprise. but with the rise of bulletproof coffee, and the hype surrounding everything even remotely related to pour overs and artisanal anythings....

Wawa Turns 50

Wawa Turns 50

For those of you local to the Delaware Valley you know the name. But to the fine folks spread out around this wonderful world of ours who don't as of yet know. Wawa, is a simply a convenience store. But its much more than that they focus on fresh coffee, ready made...

7-Eleven: Guatemala Santa Rosa Roast Coffee

7-Eleven: Guatemala Santa Rosa Roast Coffee

  There is something special about fresh coffee. It has the power to change your day in a single sniff, alter your mood for the better in a single sip. I was recently gifted a surprise from the fine folks at 7-Eleven. they sent me a batch of the  Guatemala Santa...

Turning Used Coffee Grounds into Booze

Turning Used Coffee Grounds into Booze

So a bunch of scientists got together and decided to try their hand at fermenting things they found lying around.  And what is left lying around a lab more often than coffee? While this probably isn't the way it went down, turning organic matter into alcohol is pretty...

Paul R Muller

I like to make pretty things. I watch shiny things, and blinking things. I drink black coffee. But most of all I love working on design problems.