New checkout for our site!

I have been busy updating and transferring things over to our new storefront, here is a sneak peak!

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Baking Through "On Baking"

Old Wwworld Cafe is all about doing things by hand, and that includes making the baked goods for the cafe when it's opened. There's no time better than the present to brush up on our baking skills, so we here at Old Wwworld Cafe are going to bake our way through the book "On Baking".

We started at the beginning, and made some of the simplest of baked goods: simple syrup, beaten egg whites, and ricotta cheese. Now, the syrup and egg whites were no trouble, and we even took the syrup up a notch and flavored it. This was a first for me, so I was weary as to how the flavor would turn out. It really shocked me with just how tasty it was. Well, I'm sure you're asking, "What flavor did you make?"













Coffee of course! And it was quite delicious! Adding it to an already tasty cup of coffee or a homemade frappe is the perfect touch.

Now beaten egg whites are another item I am familiar with making, but it took me quite a while before I could get stiff peaks.

Still those were fairly simple and not too new to us, but the ricotta cheese was definitely something different.













Overall, everything turned out pretty well (though the ricotta was a little on the lime flavored side... we're still working on perfecting it) and we're excited to start the next phase, biscuits! So stayed tuned and follow us on our journey through "On Baking"!

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New boxes, yes I am excited.

For any company, branding is important. Finally, after over a 16 months of shipping coffee in random boxes, we now have real ones. Whenever this arrives at your step, you know your getting coffee! Now, to update the image a tad!

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Gotta heart!

Luke's first latte art pour with something that didn't look ugly as sin!


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Vid up if you have not seen.

This video is the first in a series of what it is like to roast by hand, quite literally.




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New Coffee in, Dominican Gold!

I am very, very excited about the new coffee we have just received here today, and for many reasons. First off it marks the first time we have traded directly with a farm, second off it is our first "island coffee", and third off IT IS OUTSTANDING!

For those of you who LOVE Jamaican or Hawaiian coffees, this is a must try as it is in the same category. I cannot rave about it enough, so go get some already!


I will leave you today with a few parting images (the videos I took are a tad dark until I edit them) with our monthly sample roasting. Each month we all pitch blend ideas or rework an old coffee and take it for a spin on the sample roaster. Our sample roaster needs some work done to it though, but we have plans for that so we wont have to turn it by hand for much longer!




Oh and to the fine people at Dominican Gold, your espresso makers will be in route here in the next 2 weeks along with some lovely syrups, I cannot wait to here about you pulling shots on them and making drinks!

Chemex

Incoming Chemex to play with, I am pumped!

Excitement!

Things have been pretty hectic at OWC, and I could not be more happy/anxious/excited!

For starters, we secured ourselves an Elektra Barlume that will be in in about 6 weeks (yeah!). Using the Hario is an absolute blast, and the coffee it makes is clean and sweet!

Each morning we have been waking up EXTRA early to work on our latte art, and each day we are making new "experimental" drinks.

We continue to get new parts in as we set up for our move, and the parts that excite me the most are our new scales. Yes I am that lame, but I just love these little accurate beasts!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Steampunk Artwork

We are currently working on some steampunk artwork for the shop, stay tuned to see some great pics!

Samples and Roasting

As always its late, or early depending on how you look at it, and here I sit roasting. I love having orders to fill out but man this heat is killing me! Thankfully the early hours aren't as hot, I don't think I could survive being if it was triple digit heat and sunny outside right now!

I wanted to make sure everyone got word of the samples being handed out in June so if you wanted to taste our coffee, that would be the last opportunity to do so for free for a looonggg time. Also, to those who try to contact be via this blog, I seem unable to contact you in the same manner, so I will work on trying to figure that out!

Taste of Spartanburg

A Taste of Spartanburg went very well! For those of you who missed it, we burned through about 6 gallons of coffee in 2 hours, and put on a bit of a show with our siphon pot. All next Month (July!) I will be handing out samples to anyone who requests it in the upstate area. The sooner you let me know you want a taste, the sooner you get your free coffee! If you give me a bit of a notice, I will even brew for you and go over some brewing basics.

Power Outage and Double roast cupping

So today we experienced a few hour power outage, putting us into production at this lovely hour.

I am one to look on the bright side of things, though, and will focus on how great tonight's Jam in Charlotte was instead, along with my being able to cup our double roast espresso with a different method of brewing.

It is quite astounding how clean this darker roast can come out in a drip brewer, but it requires a finer grind than any single origin I have in order to fully extract its flavors. I am very satisfied with this, and I believe others will be as well, so I urge you to try it out!