Manitoba’s oldest microbrewery Fort Garry Brewing is now making Kona Imperial Stout, a limited-edition craft beer that is brewed with 50 pounds of rich roasted coffee beans from Kona, Hawaii. It is described as “intense in-your-face goodness” by the brewery’s Matt Wolff. The stout’s retro-modern tiki packaging was designed by Atmosphere Design.

via Lovely Package

images via Atmosphere Design and Oh Beautiful Beer

Dave’s Coffee in Charlestown, Rhode Island produces Dave’s Cold Brewed Coffee Syrup, their all-natural sweetened coffee syrup which comes in either original or Madagascar vanilla. A bit of trivia I’ve been hanging on to for years: coffee milk is the state drink of Rhode Island. Dave’s Cold Brewed Coffee Syrup + cold milk = Instant delight!

Experience the full spectrum of flavor that resides in coffee beans with two bottles of Cold Brewed Coffee syrup. The Original is hand-roasted in small batches, cold-brewed and simmered with natural cane sugar to preserve the delicate, sophisticated notes that are seared away by traditional brewing methods. Vanilla adds an extra layer of richness to the original recipe. Drizzle over ice cream, blend with milk or add to recipes to enjoy exceptional sweet, smooth aroma.

The TopBrewer by Scanomat is an automatic coffee making machine that dispenses coffee drinks from a faucet-like tap (video). The rest of the machine is hidden out of view in a cabinet-style enclosure. The TopBrewer can be controlled with an iPhone, iPad, or with the in-counter touchscreen.

via The Awesomer & That’s Like Whoa

Tom Pappalardo of Standard Design created Hello Darkness My Old Friend, a poster celebrating a good hot cup of coffee. Color art print posters are available at his Etsy shop. You may remember in the past we posted about Tom’s cool found footage of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. “Hello darkness, my old friend” are lyrics from Simon & Garfunkel’s 1960s hit song The Sounds of Silence.

via Gridlock Coffee

The OPMOD Battle Mug is a tactical coffee mug with mounting points for night vision scopes, lasers, and other rifle accessories (video). It is produced by OPMOD, a manufacturer of outdoor and tactical gear.

Thanks to Graeme Wagoner-Lynch for the tip.

Grady’s Cold Brew is a wonderful New Orleans style iced coffee concentrate hand brewed and bottled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It can be purchased online for delivery and it is also available at several locations in Brooklyn.

Each batch is made by steeping a special blend of freshly roasted coffee and chicory in water overnight, then removing the grounds using a two-step filtration process. What’s left? A bold, velvety-smooth liquid concentrate that can be mixed with milk or water—served over ice or steaming hot.

I opened up a batch of Grady’s Cold Brew this morning, drinking it with milk over ice and it was quite good.

photo by Nick Ferrari

Handpresso Auto is a portable espresso machine that plugs into a car’s 12 volt power socket (video).

via inStash & The Awesomer

New York’s Best Coffee by Blue Crow Media is an app for finding independent artisan cafés in New York City. Blue Crow Media has also made Best Coffee apps for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.

via Tim Shey

Coffee Flakes is a corn flake-type cereal that has the smell and taste of rich and flavorful Italian coffee and “the crunch and heartiness of corn and flax.” It is made by Riega Foods.

Ingredients: Organic Corn, Organic Sugar, Organic Coffee, Organic Rice Syrup, Flaxseed, Omega 3 Fish Oil and Salt.

INeedCoffee reviewed Coffee Flakes in 2009:

I brought a box of Coffee Flakes to the Coffee Club of Seattle. I was able to share the cereal with eleven of my fellow members. I had everyone cup their hands and I went around the room pouring cereal. They all loved the cereal. The taste of coffee was subtle and not overpowering. When you first bite into Coffee Flakes the corn taste is prominent, but as you continue to chew the coffee flavor comes through at the end…

How much caffeine is a bowl of cereal? Very little. I asked Reiga Foods and they estimated that if you ate an entire box it would be as much as a half a shot of espresso. In other words, you’ll still need to drink coffee to get your caffeine fix.

via Frank Jones (who spotted it at Grocery Outlet)

image via INeedCoffee

How To Get Coffee on Toothpaste For Dinner

Malaysian artist Hong Yi created this wonderful coffee ring stain portrait of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou. This time-lapse by Hong shows the 12 hour process of making the portrait.

via Coudal Partners

Grant Snider explains The Coffee Cycle on Incidental Comics.

Filter Coffeehouse & Espresso Bar in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. has two coffee-themed bicycle racks, one is a french press coffee pot and the other is a steaming cup of coffee. The Washington Area Bicycle Association collaborated with DDOT’s BikeBrand Your Biz campaign to install the custom bike racks to accommodate the large number of customer bikes at Filter.

via Erin Pate and The Coffee Experiment

images via Washington Area Bicycle Association

Artist Gwyneth Leech creates intricate paintings and drawings on used coffee cups. Since September of last year, Leech has been filling the Sprint Prow ArtSpace at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan with hundreds of coffee cup artworks (more than 700 at last count). She can be seen working in the art space Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 2pm. The project, entitled “Hypergraphia,” runs through February 18.

I like my hot coffee or tea in a paper take-out cup, like millions of my fellow citizens. Even better than the contents, I like the used cup as a surface to draw and paint on. And before I begin I like to inscribe the date, location and occasion on which the beverage was consumed so that every cup becomes the record of a social moment.

photo 1 and 3 by Gwyneth Leech, photo 2 by Bernard Klevickas

Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation produced the ongoing newsreel series called Look at Life starting in the late 1950s which depicted scenes from (mostly) British life. Over a span of 10 years, they created over 500 episodes which served as cinema newsreels. This particular Look at Life film, circa 1959, visits the hip bohemian coffee bar scene in London’s SOHO district.

Swedish site, Nostalgoteket, describes a bit of what is shown in the film:

Very cool scene in the 2Is with a rock & roll band playing wildly and the crowd jiving away! A square invades a hipster coffee bar and all the cats give him the evil eye. “The French” is the most bohemian coffee house of the lot—with beatniks discussing planetary movements. Some of the coffee bars shown include: The 2Is, the French, the Macabre, Le Grande, Stockpot, Sam Widges, Melbray, Universal, La Roca, Freight Train, El Toro, Picasso, Las Vegas, Moka Bar, and more.

via swissmiss

Here are a few photos from last Wednesday’s opening of Coffee Common x NYC at A Startup Store. Check out the Coffee Common website for more info about what they are up to and plans for future events.

Coffee Common brings together world-class baristas and roasters with shared values, to create unique experiences that introduce people to the nuanced joys of exceptional coffee. We believe that great coffee is, at its best, a collaboration of an empowered coffee farmer, an artisan coffee roaster, a dedicated barista, and an enlightened consumer. We believe that great coffee requires study, experimentation, craftsmanship, and humility. These diverse roasters and baristas, who by most definitions would be considered competitors, come together as a community to proselytize the simple truths around coffee. We look forward to pouring you a cup of the most complex and extraordinary beverage in the world.

Thanks to my friend Sean Bonner who works with Coffee Common for the head’s up, it’s a really great concept.

photo by Scott Beale

Coffee Common is a united group of dedicated coffee roasters and baristas that collaborates “to proselytize the simple truths around coffee”. From January 19 through January 22, 2012, Coffee Common is hosting Coffee Common X NYC, a public event at A Startup Store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City “to make delicious coffee and help people understand how they can too”. Tickets for this multi-day event are $5 and available online.

Demand for quality coffee is on the rise, but a market filled with strange devices and alien vernacular can sometimes be intimidating. Luckily its easier than ever to find great coffees and to help you navigate all of this, Coffee Common has assembled crew of local and international baristas seeking to distill it all down so each attendee walks away equipped with the fundamentals of delicious coffee.

A Startup Store is “a new story-based retail concept” from entrepreneur and consultant Rachel Shechtman which operates as “a retail environment that has the point of view of a magazine, changes like gallery, and sells things like a store”.

photo by Brian W. Jones

The Nostalgia Electrics Retro Series 3-in-1 Breakfast Station makes toast, coffee and eggs and sausage in a lovely retro-styled case. Just $50 at Manufacturers Clearance.

via Bookofjoe and Nag on the Lake

Photographer Jack Long took this wonderful high speed photo of coffee splashing in a cup.

via The Telegraph, mikl-em, NPR, & BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER

“In Caffeine We Trust” by Column Five Media is a DIY infographic poster for tracking a person’s coffee consumption for one month. The caffeine addict marks their coffee intake on the poster using—what else—coffee as paint. The poster is available as a limited edition print.

via Coudal Partners

In the short film titled If 5 Year Olds Can Make Espresso…, 5-year olds Ellanie and Ethan make a cappuccino on the Izzo Duetto commercial espresso machine. Clive Coffee, a coffee machine company in Portland, Oregon, filmed the short to show how easy it is to make espresso.

via Doobybrain.com and Flwrider

Instant Human Just Add Coffee by SnorgTees

The Gentlemen’s Rant takes on Starbucks.

Eric Appel takes a look stereotypical Coffee Snobs with his latest video on Funny or Die.

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Daily Fix, a new t-shirt by GlennzTees shows how you might kickstart the day by doing a coffee bong.