Coffee People

Twenty years ago today on April 4th, 1999, INeedCoffee.com went online with our first article. We are still here. Still brewing. Still posting. History INeedCoffee was started while I was living in the Washington DC Metro. I had just moved there from Tampa Bay, where I had another website called the Tampa Bay Coffee Guide […]

Even though Elvis was better known for his love of Pepsi, he was a coffee fan. In 2008, Elvis researcher Adam Victor came out with The Elvis Encyclopedia. It could very well be the definitive Elvis research book. So how did Elvis take his coffee? According to the book (p 172 Food): At breakfast time […]

Visiting a coffee roaster is an amazing opportunity to widen the coffee experience. At Conduit Coffee Roasters, Jesse has the bags of green coffee stored in the same room that he roasts – a tiny room of perhaps 60 square feet, but with tall 15-foot ceilings. He has in the ‘entrance’ to the room a […]

This article was written in December 2000, when the 2nd version of INeedCoffee was launched. INeedCoffee, like many websites, is considered by its creators to be a perpetual work in progress. Change is a constant, and those of you who have visited for some time now have certainly noticed changes in content, functionality, and appearance. […]

This interview took place on July 13, 2013 between Jesse Nelson of Conduit Coffee and Joseph Roberston of Extracted Magazine. The Studio Joseph: So, sitting here with Jesse at the Conduit Coffee studio, actually I was thinking about that on the way, how you call it a studio, which is pretty awesome because there’s a […]

The door is a little clunky – it’s an unassuming glass/metal door – hanging from the inside is a leather strip with several large jingle bells attached. The all-glass front makes the entire space feel more open, which helps as it is a rather small cafe. So walking in is always the same sensation – […]