ECW 2013: Brasil
I find the photos from our fourth annual Extraordinary Coffee Workshop in Brasil so beautiful, I don’t want to detract from them with words. Behold, ECW […]
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ECW 2013: Brasil
I find the photos from our fourth annual Extraordinary Coffee Workshop in Brasil so beautiful, I don’t want to detract from them with words. Behold, ECW […]
ECW 2012: Farm Friday in Chicago
In 2011, we hosted our annual Extraordinary Coffee Workshop in Los Angeles. It was the first time we had convened our Direct Trade partners from around the […]
Seasonal Drink: Hopped Cider
Ring in the new season with latest addition to our coffeebar menu: Hopped Cider. This delicious limited offering features a crisp blend of chai, apple […]
ECW 2011: Food and Family in Los Angeles
Each year over the past eight years, we have convened our Direct Trade partners from around the world for our Extraordinary Coffee Workshop. During those events, […]
ECW 2010: Exploring El Salvador
When I was in graduate school, I attended a lecture by the German filmmaker Wim Wenders. He told the audience that all his films have […]
ECW 2009: Woodstock for Coffee
The first Intelligentsia Extraordinary Coffee Workshop was held in 2009 in Cauca, Colombia, on Camilo Merizalde’s Finca Santuario. It was something like an intimate version of […]
Sonnenzimmer
Driving east on Division is now a whole lot more colorful, as gracing the side of the building that houses the Wicker Park Intelligentsia Coffeebar […]
Silver Lake Celebrates 10 Years in LA
Ten years ago, our Intelligentsia Silver Lake Coffeebar opened it’s doors and helped shift the concept of what a coffeebar could offer the community around […]
Buyers Notebook: Los Delirios Nicaragua
As I write this, a collection of coffee giants is stalking the halls of our Chicago Roasting Works: George Howell, Susie Spindler, Paul Songer, Darrin Daniel and members […]
Bloom San Francisco 2017
There are so few outlets in the world of coffee dedicated to the exchange of ideas. Bloom, a young event run by the Barista Guild […]
Intelligentsia Watertown
We’ve landed and we’ve brought out Direct Trade coffees and the meticulous process of sourcing, roasting and brewing them to Watertown. We’ve opened a new […]
Buyer’s Notebook: La Tortuga Honduras
Our La Tortuga Honduras takes its name and inspiration from the moral of Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare: slow and steady wins […]