| February 14, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Once again, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day here at the Black Drop with a screening of the delightful romantic comedy, The Evil Dead. We encourage you to come on down with your love interest(s) and get all sweet and sappy with love as the characters in the film turn into flesh eating zombies. Ah… love! FREE.
I Feel So Empty
We have this quote by Albert Einstein on the vent hood at the shop: “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” It is nice to see this applied to the world of coffee.
Thanks to Debbie for the thoughts and the link.
Thanks to Bellingham Business Journal and its readers for voting the Black Drop as Best Place for Free WiFi (insert interrobang here). I am assuming this also includes “and also drink beautiful coffee.” Also, kudos to Cafe Adagio for the latte win. Cheers!
My sister, Shannon, teaches at Sehome. For one of her classes, she asked her students to write a parody of the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg. One of her students, Forrest Meyer, a very clever and intelligent student in my opinion, chose to write his poem about The Black Drop. It is beautiful. Thanks, Forrest. Give him an A+ Shannon!
The black drop
Coffee supplier of Bellingham,
Espresso maker, seller of mugs,
Displayer of art and things to come,
Warm, smug, happy,
Place of the hipster
They tell me you are too small and I believe them, for I have seen your tables and chairs packed all hours of the day.
They tell me your drinks are weird and I answer: yes, it is true I have seen the peanut butter and banana mocha you call the fat Elvis.
They say your coffee is bad and my reply is: yes (in a sarcastic voice) any organic coffee roasted a couple blocks away from the shop is terrible.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at my coffee shop and I give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another coffee shop with lifted heads singing so proud to be central and polite and happy and the best.
Hear is a 12ounce drip coffee to set vivid against the stuff star bucks calls coffee.
Bitter as a dark chocolate, sweet as caramel,
Dripping,
Steaming,
Brewing,
Steeping,
Buying, making, selling,
Under its roof staying warm.
Under its balcony in the sun.
Laughing at a regular who has never had their free Doppios on a Friday, Laughing!
Laughing the warm, smug, happy laughter of the regulars enjoying, proud to be the coffee supplier of Bellingham!
You can check out the original here: http://carl-sandburg.com/chicago.htm
We love Daterra Farms in Brazil. We carry their Villa Borghesi beans, which is one of our bestselling coffees and a shop favorite. Coffee Talk recently posted an interesting article on gender equality in the coffee world that singles out Daterra for their outstanding initiatives and programs. Check it out.
| February 14, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Once again, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day here at the Black Drop with a screening of the delightful romantic comedy, The Evil Dead. We encourage you to come on down with your love interest(s) and get all sweet and sappy with love as the characters in the film turn into flesh eating zombies. Ah… love! FREE.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/285726501553809/
The Black Drop Coffeehouse, in association with Maniac Roasting, is proud to announce the availability of one of the finest coffee beans we have ever had: the Don Pachi Geisha Natural from Panama. This coffee was awarded one of the highest scores in the history of the SCAP Best of Panama competition; also receiving one of the highest auction prices of $111.50 per pound.
This coffee has a remarkably complex structure with floral jasmine, sweet honey and blueberry notes on top of a rich malty chocolate base. Like a fine wine, this coffee evokes a sense of ineffable beauty and is a delight for the senses.
This coffee generally sells for $60 per pound and over. Thanks to Maniac Roasting, the Black Drop is able to offer this one of a kind coffee to our customers for $46 per pound ($23 per half, $11.50 per quarter). This coffee is available by special reservation. We have a very limited supply, so make your reservation soon. Please inquire at the Black Drop for more details.
REGION: Boquete – Panamá
MICRO REGION: Callejon Seco / Palmira
FARMS: Serracin Cafetaleros (Don Pachi)
VARIETY: Catuaí 20% , Caturra 22%, Typica 40%, Borbon 8%, Geisha 10% M.A.S.L. 1300/1600
TOTAL YEARLY PRODUCTION: 1200 qq
MICROMILL NAME: Boquete Finest
WET PROCESS: Penagos
DRYING PROCESS: Patios, African Beds, Dryers
DRY MILLING: YES
WORKERS: FARM WORKERS: 7 / MILL WORKERS: 4/12 / HARVEST PICKERS: 82
| January 5, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:59 pm |
Come help us celebrate with Coffee, Food, Music and Drinks!
We’ve had another great year of being your favorite coffeehouse, so let’s all party!
Saturday, January 5th, from 7 pm to midnight, your favorite baristas will be super gussied up, serving you up some delish boozy drinks and delightful, delectable tidbits.
$10 tickets (sold at the door) provide entrance to the event, a boozy drink, and a plate to partake of as many of the morsels as you would like.
All ages are welcome, although if you plan to drink, you MUST have your ID. (We don’t care HOW old you look.) Under 21 or no id? We have coffee and hot chocolate drinks for you, but no liquor will be served to you.
Live music will be provided at the beginning of the evening by the fantastically talented perennial Black Drop favorite, Sarah Goodin. Later in the evening, the lovely Aireeka will DJ and provide karaoke fun.
Menu will be posted mid week, so be sure to check back this week to find out the drinks and food you can expect.
Every year, this is the Black Drop’s busiest event, and one of our favorite times of year. It gets packed, it gets warm, and it gets really, really fun.
Come help us ring in 2013 after all your other party obligations are past. Trust us, you’ll want to be at this one!
| December 14, 2012 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Check it out! From the flyer: “Hanna Neuschwander, author of Left Coast Roast, will be in conversation with Alexarc Mastema, owner of Maniac Roasting, and Edwin Martinez, owner of Onyx Coffee Bar. Go hear them discuss where coffee comes from, how it’s roasted, and the different roles the roasters and producers play. It is a free event and will feature samples of different coffees!”
Friday, December 14th at the Book Fare Cafe at 7 pm.
More information here: http://villagebooks.com/event/2012/12/14/dayhttp://villagebooks.com/event/2012/12/14/day
| November 1, 2012 12:00 am | to | November 30, 2012 12:00 am |
Urania
AND NOW IN ALL CAPS! THE WINNER OF THE BLACK DROP UGLY MUG CONTEST… URANIA WITH HER CRAZY UGLY LIPS MUG! Urania: we will contact you regarding all of your amazing prizes and gifts from the Black Drop Coffee House and Merch Bot! And, best of all, you get ALL of our infamous Ugly Mug Collection! Now ModSock (Urania is the owner) will be able to display all of their beautiful socks wearing ugly mugs! Thanks to all who sent in photos and participated. You are all so beautiful!
"We can't wait to go to our new Mod Sock home!"
It’s that time again! SHOW US YOUR UGLY MUG!! Do you have a seriously ugly mug? We’re not talking a little gross, we’re talking HIDEOUS. Well, WE WANT TO SEE IT! If you have THE UGLIEST mug, you might even WIN SOME AWESOME STUFF!
How it works:
1) Take a picture of you with your mug. Your mug has to be directly next to your face for your entry to count. Don’t have a way to take your own picture? Come in to the Drop (or just do it for the heck of it) where we will have a photobooth style background up, and we’ll take it for you.
2) Submit your ugly mug picture by posting it on our Facebook wall, as a comment to our website, or emailing it to us at blackdropcoffeehouse at gmail dot com.
3) Do you have a mug that you think is uglier than our “ugly mug wall of shame?” We have a trade in program. Take your picture with your ugly mug (or we will take it for you) and then trade it in for one of our (dubiously) less ugly mugs on the wall of shame. Our goal is to truly have a collection of THE UGLIEST mugs in existence on our wall of shame, directly above our grinder station.
4) Don’t live here in Bellingham? NO PROBLEM. Play anyway! Send us your picture!!
5) When the contest entries are concluded, VOTE for your favorite!
The winner will be the ugly mug picture with the most votes.
WHAT WILL YOU WIN?
The winner of our ugly mug contest will win a prize package including Black Drop merchandise (stickers, buttons, and perhaps even a shirt,) Merchbot merchandise (donated by our awesome friends at MerchBot where they sell truly stupid and fun stuff,) and (this is the best part….) ALL OF THE UGLY MUGS! That’s right, folks, Our winner will be the proud owner of THE UGLIEST MUGS we could find, the whole collection, kit and caboodle. We will then spend the following year collecting all new ugly mugs to do it all over again next year.
NOW THE BORING RULE PART
1) Black Drop employees and their families are not eligible to win.
2) Your mug needs to be ugly, but cannot be offensive. What do we mean by offensive? Please, no slurs or curse words. But, you wouldn’t do that, right?
3) Winner must take custody of the ugly mugs. No ifs, ands or buts allowed. Don’t want the spoils of your glorious victory? We’ll donate them for you.
Contest starts TODAY (Wednesday, November 8th) and entries will be accepted until Sunday, November 18th. Voting will be open for ONE WEEK closing on Saturday, November 24th. We will announce the winner at our anniversary party on November 25th. Contestants need not be present to win.
NOW GET OUT THERE AND SHOW US THOSE UGLY MUGS!!!
