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Novo Coffee receives 'Best Local Roaster' award from Westword

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:08:00 GMT

We've been named 'Best Local Roaster' by Westword. Thanks to all of you who voted for us! Click the link below to read the article.

Westword's Best of Denver 2011 winner for Best Local Roaster

Cupping with Westword

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:41:00 GMT

Westword gave us a nice mention here regarding our Friday cuppings. If you're interested in attending an upcoming session (space is limited), email us at info@novocoffee.com .

Denver Magazine's 100 Things to Taste in Denver

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:07:00 GMT

Our Ojo de Agua was named in Denver Magazine's annual "100 Things to Taste in Denver". Also included in this list were a number of our fine customers -- Beatrice and Woodsley, Cuba Cuba, Fuel Cafe, Hutch and Spoon, Masterpiece Deli, Ondo's, Potager, Red Trolley, Root Down, Table 6 and Zengo. Congratulations to all of these fine establishments!

Bon Appetit Top Ten Boutique Coffee Shops

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:20:00 GMT

A coffeehouse used to be just a few couches, ho-hum muffins, and free wi-fi. But a new generation of artisinal roasters and enthusiastic baristas is offering not only a quality cup of joe, but also sophisticated menus and innovative design. End result? Now you've got a real reason to hang out.

Read the full article and Top Ten List (including Novo Coffee) here.

Boulder Coffee Examiner Article

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:55:00 GMT

Denver Art Museum Presents the Art of Coffee

You knew the Denver Art Museum (DAM) showcases art from around the world, but did you know that some of that art is consumable? Yes, that’s right. The art of coffee is being masterfully rendered at the museum, at Novo Coffee (located in the Mad Greens restaurant at DAM).
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Novo Coffee is a Heartbreaker - Just ask Akron/Family

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:59:00 GMT

A Denver-based coffee roaster is the jittery talk of New York City

The last time Akron/Family was in town, this past March on tour, it had one mission: to find the perfect cup of Colorado joe. The East Coast band (which brings its experimental folk-jam to the Bluebird Theater tonight, July 31) is obsessive about its coffee, and its favorite brew—Heartbreaker Espresso, sold exclusively at Cafe Grumpy in New York City—just happens to be roasted by Denver’s own Novo Coffee.

“The Heartbreaker just has that thing,” says Miles Seaton, multi-instrumentalist for the group. “It’s one of my favorite espressos ever. It becomes a situation where I have to leave the coffee shop or I will keep drinking it until I make myself sick—it’s that good.”

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Best of Westword 2009

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:44:00 GMT

Not long ago, it would have been obscene for ritzy restaurant menus to name-drop their brand of coffee. But that's happening around here all the time now — especially when the coffee being used is Denver-based Novo Coffee. And that makes sense, since the family-owned Novo crafts coffee like other boutique outfits craft great wine or beer, seeking out the best beans around the world, roasting them in their Larimer Street facility and obsessively instructing their customers and clients on the best way to extract nuanced nectars from the grounds. The results have been named some of the best in the country, and Novo's main coffee bar, across the street from the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building, has become a caffeine-fanatic mecca. Isn't it time you took a sip of perfection?

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Digital City

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:40:00 GMT

The weather is definitely changing for the colder in parts of the United States and it's a good time to talk about coffee. A brilliant cup of coffee can be your best friend on chilly days. We've looked all over the country for these best friends and came up with the 21 best cups of coffee in America. Twenty-one is an arbitrary number, but the picks are not. We did stay clear of big coffee chains like Starbucks, Seattle's Best and Dunkin' Donuts. It's not that we think we're too cool to be caught in these cookie cutter coffeeterias, but everyone knows what they're getting with a chain cup of coffee. The cups on this list are special and unique in their own way and most focus on hand-crafted processes and socially aware practices

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Home Grown

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:44:00 GMT

Sip on a cup of Novo Coffee. In a world overrun by Starbucks, this Denver-based specialty coffee company stands as an oasis. We could wax rhapsodic about single-origin beans from La Concordia, Colombia, or the caramelized flavors of Ojo de Agua from Volcan, Panama, or you can just try it. You will taste a difference.

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Forbes.com - America's Best Boutique Coffees

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:46:00 GMT

The rushed business traveler rarely has to worry about where to find a cup of coffee. That's because Starbucks is now ever-present in most cities. Add to the mix thousands of McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts locations now serving improved brews and the options are endless. What's more difficult to find is the unique cup: the single-origin espresso or freshly roasted French press. Even though Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ), in its fight to retain customers, today unveiled a new brewing strategy and an inaugural blend called Pike Place Roast, most coffee snobs argue that the best java is found at small cafes where each cup is painstakingly crafted. Often tucked away in neighborhoods outside of a city's financial district, these shops can be difficult to get to for a business traveler, but aficionados say it's a worthwhile trip.

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303 Magazine

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:51:00 GMT

How does someone go from a career as a full-time soccer player and occasional coffee roaster, to the leading force behind Novo Coffee? Jake Brodsky is described as a quiet leader with extraordinary attention to detail – a scientist of coffee operations.

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Best Coffee Brewed in an Oversized iPod - Westword's Best of Denver 2007

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:53:00 GMT

NOVO Coffee doesn't actually brew your cup of joe in giant iPods, but its stylized metallic coffee machines, called Clovers, resemble them. They have the same modish aura, as if they, too, promise to change the way we do things. You can find the Clovers in action at the residential complex next door to the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building. NOVO's methodology is to treat coffee like wine, serving it by varietals and preparing one cup at a time, never letting the elixirs spoil in a carafe. The operation is so cool you'll want a Clover for yourself, but considering that the machine costs more than a small car, you may want to stick with the $3 coffee.

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5280 Article - Desperately Seeking Joe

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:55:00 GMT

A Denver man's quest for the perfect cup of coffee has taken him around the globe.

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Roasters Realm - Roasting Reflections on Papua New Guinea

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:56:00 GMT

Our Vitoria roaster looks like a locomotive, and with the changing color and aroma of coffee in the tryer, the operator often finds himself in the passenger car, riding back along the paths our coffees travel. With my eyes on the warm brown of Owena Cooperative coffee turning in the cooling pan, memories return from the wildest origin trip I've yet taken.

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Ethiopia: A Cupper's Trek to the Source by Joseph Brodsky

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:58:00 GMT

The sound of 17 cuppers slurping coffee resounded in Ethiopia’s Central Liquoring Lab. Through the cacophony, one deep, slow slurp resonated and caught my attention. “Too fast and you can’t catch the depth of the flavor,” Abraham Begashaw, head of the Ethiopian Coffee Authority and masterful cupper, would later say. “Fast is for defects. If you slow down, your senses will capture the completeness of an exemplary cup.” I had accepted an invitation to be a judge in the first Ethiopian Cooperative Coffees Competition in Addis Ababa, held in March. Cooperatives from Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Nekempte, Harar, Limu, Jimma and Kafa Forest (coffee’s birthplace) had put meticulous effort into preparing their finest 20-bag lots of coffee. Some entered lots in both washed and unwashed categories. I cupped on the same table as Phyllis Johnson, a friend and importer specializing in African coffees, during the competition’s first.

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