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Starting Your Content Marketing Plan
Content Marketing has been around for ages; however, it has never been more accessible yet complicated. More and more people are spending...
jak00
Jan 8, 20213 min read


Master Moments: George Howell
George Howell, of course, is the brilliant entrepreneur that first created the Coffee Connection in 1970’s Boston and was one of the...
jak00
Jan 8, 20217 min read


Getting Online and In Line to Sell Coffee: part 1
Written by: Alfonso of Blue Mayan Coffee The changes in technology, and particularly the impact of COVID-19, have pushed commerce to the...
jak00
Sep 16, 20204 min read


Vetri Wine Club
“Saying I like Barolo is like saying I like red wine. It is much too broad a statement for such a varied spectrum of processes and...
jak00
Dec 31, 20133 min read


Bro-mancing the Roast
Philadelphia has been a one-roaster kind of town for almost 2 decades now. When La Colombe opened its doors in 1994 it was a revelation...
jak00
Jun 19, 20132 min read


Fresh Cup Files: Interview Nico O’Connell of La Colombe
La Colombe is one of the original independent roasters that were born after the juggernaut Starbucks started buying up and dismantling...
jak00
May 24, 20135 min read


Beer, ME
Recently, I took a jaunt up to my hometown of Portland, ME. Being that I grew up there as a boy, I never really got the full scope of...
jak00
May 8, 20133 min read


Stop Selling and Start Solving
The public has a bad image of sales people and the idea of sales in general. They are viewed as someone who is trying to lure our money...
jak00
Jan 14, 20133 min read


Hook it up with JavaHook
I am always interested in new businesses, entrepreneurs, and products that find their way into your routine and can no longer be lived...
jak00
Dec 10, 20124 min read


America’s Wine Cradle
We’re all familiar with the great wines being produced in Napa and Sonoma, but most people forget (or perhaps never knew) the birthplace...
jak00
Oct 8, 20123 min read


Newburgh New-brew
Newburgh, NY has been the underdog for the last hundred years. It was a boomtown during the Gilded Age, with its ideal position between...
jak00
Oct 7, 20129 min read


A Call to Arms!
Friends, New Yorkers, Countrymen, lend me your ears. We sit at the feet of one of the most lush, fertile and bountiful lands in all the...
jak00
Oct 6, 20124 min read


OktoBEERfest
It’s high season in the Hudson Valley, what with leaf-peeping, pumpkin-patching, apple-picking and corn-mazing, which means when you...
jak00
Oct 6, 20121 min read


The Little Wine Bus That Could
As I came to find out, the Hudson Valley was the birthplace of wine in America. So, it no surprise there are many established vineyards...
jak00
Oct 4, 20122 min read


A Grand Portfolio
I enjoyed a tasting which included their Tocai Fiulano Reserve with rich, tart fruit and a smooth finish. The Chardonay Reserve had a...
jak00
Oct 2, 20121 min read


Balkan Wine Project
Last week at Winebow‘s annual Vintner’s Harvest the room was filled with amazing wines from around the world. From the Hudson valley to...
jak00
Sep 26, 20123 min read


Johnny Apple-cider
Cider Apples Whatever you do, don’t say the apple cider tastes like apples! This will get you kicked out of a cider tasting pretty much...
jak00
Sep 25, 20124 min read


Made with Honor, Sold on Hipster
Every so many years a new cool beer is chosen to be the mascot of the poor yet proud educated youth. The newly chosen emblem of awesome...
jak00
Sep 25, 20121 min read


Coffee Fest
Keeping it real. Vita’s espresso still rocks! Just when you thought Seattle had lost its coffee-edge, bam! It’s back. I was just in...
jak00
Sep 23, 20122 min read


Billions of Brazilian Beans
Brazil is a young America. It has abundant natural resources, a huge agricultural industry and a large work force. All of these factors...
jak00
Sep 16, 20123 min read
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