By Mayce FischerI have a pretty standard routine for preparing my cup of coffee each morning: While still drowsy and pyjama-clad, I fill the kettle halfway, set it to boil, and shovel three scoops of ground coffee into the plunger as I wait. The only pause that occurs in this daily choreography comes when I have to pick out a mug. It doesn’t really matter what ends up holding my coffee, so long as it permits me to drink - but there’s something small and delightful about pairing the comfortingly predictable taste of coffee with the visual variety of an intentionally chosen mug. For me, small mugs lend to a feeling of contentment, and patterned mugs prep for artistic endeavors; thick mugs go well with cold mornings, while enamel mugs pair well with the outdoors. And mugs that could double as soup bowls indicate there’s a lot of work to be done! (My personal favorite.) Today I thought it’d be fun to just hunt around for a few mugs to add to your current collection, or to gift to a fellow coffee lover (or tea lover - we don’t discriminate around here.) Never underestimate the power of a well-chosen mug ;) happy sipping! If you’re aiming for earthy + geometric  If you want something textured + uniquely patterned  For something galactic  For some encouragement  If you’re going for a new camping mug 
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The Coffee Industry is constantly changing. New extraction methods are being designed and tested all over the world. Here in Australia, we are at the center of innovation in manual brewing. Enter the Delter Coffee Press. Designed in Brisbane as an innovative re-imagining of the Aeropress, the Delter Press uses pressurized extraction by separating the coffee and water, unlike the Aeropress. The following article from Daily Coffee News describes the history and science behind this home-grown manual brewing equipment.  The Ten is a list of creative prompts by TMPC for writers, photographers, artists, or any creatives of any type. Use them as inspiration for your next project.  Continuing with our theme of coffee tasting, here is a simple info graph featuring the Espresso Compass. This handy chart is an easy reference when tasting espresso. Try it out the next time you stop by your favorite cafe, or the next time you make your own espresso, to see if you make the best possible espresso.  Coffee: Complex, flavorful, diverse, and enjoyed by millions every day. But, not everyone who enjoys coffee can describe what they are tasting. Coffee cupping and tasting can be intimidating for beginners, but it can grow your knowledge of coffee and its origins, varieties, and flavors.  Blue Bottle Coffee has a simple, yet informative article highlighting five specific areas to help describe the taste of coffee: Sweetness, Body, Acidity, Flavor, and Finish. We hope that this article can help you understand and identify the different flavors for all the coffee you enjoy every day!
The Ten is a creative prompt list written by the staff here at TMPC. The Ten can be used for writers, photographers, artists, blog authors, or really anyone who needs a creative spark for their life. 
 As a cafe staff, we look for opportunities to grow in all of the areas we value. One way we do so is by coming together every week and discussing ways to grow closer together as a team, to improve our service, find ways to give room for creativity to blossom, and to grow community with everyone we welcome into the cafe every day. During our time together, we also have recently read the best seller by Bob Goff, "Everybody, Always." While reading, our team discovered that we have the opportunity to not only value, but be loving to one another, and everyone we meet in the cafe. Being willing to go the extra mile to grow our community, creativity, relationship with one another, and our coffee service goes a long way towards achieving the mission statement of The Meeting Place Cafe: "Create Community and Extend Hope. One act, One coffee, One conversation at a time." We want to take this opportunity as a cafe team, to say thank you to everyone who visits us, reads our blog, like our posts, and takes time to get to know us. We are so thankful for every cup, every conversation. every like and share, and every donation. To be able to meet so many unique and creative people, to help grow their passion, fuel their love for coffee, and express our own passions is truly a privilege. We are so grateful for the coffee community we are able to be a part of every single day, and we look forward to another year of creativity, expression, community, and some great coffee! Happy New Year, from The Meeting Place Cafe. Pour-Over coffee has been gaining a lot of steam, no pun intended. While a majority of coffee enthusiasts are still enjoying espresso and its incredible flavors, a new wave of coffee specialists are poring over the complex extraction process known as pour-over coffee.  PerfectDailyGrind.com has a informative article on the difference between, and the pros and cons of both espresso and pour-over coffee. Keep following their site, they have some very informative articles!Enjoy the read, and keep brewing!
The ten is a list of creative prompts we here at The Meeting Place Cafe send out every month. If you have writer's block, are writing a song, taking photos, painting, or any art form, we hope that these prompts can help get the creative juices flowing again.  Yesterday morning, I and a couple of other staff at the Meeting Place went on a little adventure to try a new cafe! We went to a place called the Freedom Hub in Gold Coast, which we had heard all of it's profits go into rescuing sex trafficking victims and child soldiers. That definitely piqued our interest, so off we went to go see what this cafe is all about! We walked into a garage door opening and were amazed at the aesthetic of this cafe - modern, sleek, adorable, but above all else: intentional. This cafe's decor was so fitting to the cause it's fighting for, with raw woods, caged lights, those ropes you might see on a ship, the big brown ones that kind of make you think about slavery, and to top it all off, stories upon stories on the walls of young women they've helped to rescue from this industry, and where they are now! (Pictures next to stories are of models for the women's protection). Already in love with the cafe, we got coffees and sat down. Noticing little details like the board with a funny Christmas joke, or the stark white espresso machine, in contrast to the rest of the atmosphere, and finding a booklet that describes more what their vision is. Everything that we learned about this cafe, we liked it more and more. Our coffees arrived, flat whites and long blacks galore, and with that environment, the coffee quality was of course worth the drive! After sitting for a while and daydreaming about how we would take this cafe's idea and incorporate it into our own *hopeful* cafes, we stood up and thanked the baristas for what they do, and we took a picture outside the door to commemorate our adventure into an adorable cafe with a huge heart, and coffee good enough to go along with it, rounding it out to be an amazing experience. 10/10 would recommend if you have a day off in the Goldie. Thank you so much for reading, and don't forget to check them out!  |
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