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About Coffee Cache

Coffee Cache is a reference and information site designed and maintained by a coffee enthusiast named Geoffrey Shilling. The site was launched on National Coffee Day - September 29, 2009 - as a subdomain of my personnal site, GeoffreyShilling.com. Then I decided I wanted the web site to only be about coffee, so I started using the domain name Geoffrey's Coffee. There was something about that name I just didn't like, and on October 23 I changed it to Coffee Cache. I wasn't consciously thinking about it at the time, but I have a feeling the high-tech treasure hunting site, Geocaching.com, helped me pick the name. Earlier that morning, I got an e-mail from Geocaching.com saying someone found the cache, or treasure, I had previously hidden. Before this, I had been thinking for days of a name for this site that wasn't already taken, but by lunchtime, Coffee Cache came to mind. This leads me to believe Geocaching.com had a hand in naming this site.

Some of the topics you'll find here will include brewing, health issues, history, links, news, photos, recipes, roasting, grinding, growing, and storage; eventually I may start doing coffee reviews, too. I love cooking, so you'll probably see quite a few recipes on here. If it has anything at all to do with coffee, you can find it on Coffee Cache.

While much of the stuff posted will be general coffee knowledge or resources, you will notice more of a focus on Louisville when it comes to my reviews or recommendations; Louisville is, after all, where I live. I also mention Heine Bros. quite a bit, but this site has nothing to do with Heine Bros., outside of being a huge fan. Coffee Cache is not affiliated with, operated, sponsored, or endorsed by any company or organization.

If you would like to see something that's not posted yet, send me your suggestion or feel free to write something up yourself and I'll be happy to post it.
A Note on Recipes

I love cooking and trying out new recipes. Some coffee sites I've seen group recipes for "stuff that tastes good with coffee" right in with the coffee recipes themselves. While many of these recipes are good, you could create an entire web page for stuff that goes well with coffee. The only recipes you'll see on here will have coffee in them - whether that be in the form of brewed coffee, instant coffee, espresso, or maybe some other form - but there will be coffee in them.
About the Technical Stuff

Coffee Cache is my first web site using WordPress. As my knowledge progresses, I'll be updating and tweaking the site to make it run more efficiently and aesthetically. The WordPress theme I'm using is called Coffee Plant, and was created and designed by me. I hope to make this theme available for others in the near future, so any comments or suggestions are welcomed.

All coding is done using Bare Bones' TextWrangler text editor. I like to do all the designing and altering of Coffee Cache offline, using MAMP: Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP as a local server, prior to uploading it.
About Geoffrey

I'm no coffee expert by any means. I just love the stuff in all its forms, except maybe instant - I'm not a big fan of that except when using it for coffee flavor while cooking. My love of coffee began with my first cup when I was only 13: fresh Kona Coffee on Hawaii's Big Island. I grew up in a small town in Northwest Ohio, but we visited Hawaii for my grandparents' 50th anniversary. The taste was amazing and I was instantly hooked, although I didn't regularly start drinking coffee until I got to high school. As it turned out, I was later stationed in Hawaii from 2005-2009 while serving in the U.S. Navy and enjoyed a great many cups of Kona Coffee; even McDonald's served a good Kona blend. In July, 2009, my enlistment was up and I moved from Hawaii back to the mainland, specifically Louisville, KY. Kona Coffee has my favorite flavor, but it's just not quite strong enough. My daily coffee-of-choice is either Folgers' Black Silk or Gourmet Surpreme, their "dark roast" coffee, with no cream or sugar. I know it's Folgers and doesn't taste as good as some gourmet or home-roasted coffees I've had, but I'm no expert cupper (coffee taster) and it's relatively cheap, dark, and good, so it does just fine for me. I do enjoy trying new coffee but usually end up forgetting which cup tasted like what, so I should probably make of list as I try each new blend.

Enjoy your coffee!