2014 Coffee With A Stranger Holiday Gift Guide

Coffee With a Stranger Holiday Gift Guide

Do you have a few more gifts to buy this holiday season? To make your life easier, I present to you, the updated 2015 Coffee With A Stranger Holiday Gift Buying Guide! I’ve had nearly 100 cups of coffee with total strangers. Those strangers are all incredible people and some of them just happen to […]

Cup 74: Newt Hamlin – Nick-namer, failed retiree and serial entrepreneur.

The Place: Cafe Medici The Cup: Coffee. No fluff, no whip, no syrup. Straight up rocket fuel. The Background: Cup 66, Jim Bledsoe was one of four strangers who shared memories of a special friend, Scott Robinson, who was set to be Cup 62. Scott passed away suddenly at age 41, and his story was told to me […]

Brian Grigsby, Cup 70 Coffee With a Stranger

Cup 70: Brian Grigsby – Entrepreneur, investor and race car driver.

The Place: Cafe Medici The Cup: Just coffee folks, move along, nothing to look at here. Plain, old coffee. But Cafe Medici does know how to do it right – french press style. Yum! Background: Cup 67, Eric Simone connected Brian and I. Eric told me, during our visit, that there were a handful of people in Austin who […]

Coffee With a Stranger Cup 68, Eric Shuler

Cup 68: Joel Shuler – Former male model, coffee aficionado and secret gardener.

The Place: Casa Brasil Coffees The Cup: A delicious pour-over made with the 5th place winner of the best coffee in Brazil. Lucky me! And, an emerging, though not yet mainstream, potential coffee trend (remember, you heard it here first) TEA – made from the pods that housed the coffee beans before they were processed. Try as […]