Sweetwater Morning Monthly Florida Coffee Zine Blog

St. Pete-based artist Eva Avenue is living in Europe and documenting her coffee travels.  She is currently reporting on the specialty coffee culture in Ireland and Northern Ireland. In a series of articles, Eva will look at the local coffee cult ...

GAINESVILLE, FL - Sweetwater Organic Coffee joins an international network of coffee trainers as it launches coffee brewing and barista classes from its newly opened Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Premier Training Campus in Gainesville, Fla.Baris ...

You could start off 2019 denying yourself something delicious in an effort to trim your waistline or live more healthily.  Or.. you could just listen to more music.St. Pete Artist Eva Avenue curated a coffee playlist for Sweetwater before e ...

While working on this issue of the Sweetwater Morning Monthly Florida Coffee Zine, I peeled a small tangerine-orange and popped 3 pieces into my mouth separately to study what I was tasting and left the rest to throw out later. Tragic."Oranges used t ...

Thanksgiving dinner’s all finished. Grandpa belched out a good one and now they’re like, “Let’s get ready for pies and coffee!”Dessert makes sense but why coffee?Well, coffee has caffeine in it and that’s real important for aiding digestion. It speed ...

Recently, Eva Avenue sat down for a quick chat with Paul Fiore, owner of Fiore’s Sweet Cup in Gainesville, FL, and Fiore’s Frosty Jack’s in Alachua.I met Paul Fiore on a trip to Americus, GA, for an anniversary party with Cafe Campesino, the roastery ...

We’re happy to share with you the sweet letter we received from Sarah Gerard, author of the recent national literary hit Sunshine State.Dear Sweetwater,This morning I woke up at 6am, which is an hour earlier than I usually wake up, and before the sun ...

Sweetwater General Manager  Brian Condra went down to hang with one of the coffee world’s most revered fair traders, Esperanza Dionisia Castillo, who helped bring the C.A.C. Pangoa coffee co-op back to life from the ravages o ...

Join us this weekend in Gainesville for the second annual  Organic Food & Farming Summit organized by Florida Organic Growers. Designed to bring together foodies, farmers, educators, home gardeners and more, this July 27-28 summi ...

w/ Brian from Sweetwater Organic Coffee Co. On a typical day for Brian Condra, he bikes to work, places a green order through Sweetwater’s cooperative, roasts coffee beans and has a sales meeting or gives a quick group tour. In between over-lay ...

Chris studies coffeehouses but hasn’t worked in the service industry except three days at a Cracker Barrel in Jacksonville, FL. But that was a long time ago.I found Chris LeClere through Instagram—he teaches a class called Coffee Anthropology at UF i ...

Russell Jackson runs Subculture Dining NYC, a pop-up cutting-edge dining experience where clients buy tickets to the dinner and find out the day of the event where the location is. He themes his dinners off pop culture icons or particular songs, as w ...