About Us
The world's most read coffee and espresso resource
Back in 1997, most of the combined coffee knowledge shared over the young Internet was collected in the newsgroup alt.coffee. A year later, one of the first ever visual, professionally designed websites dedicated to coffee was launched: CoffeeKid.com.
Three years after that, lessons learned in the development of CoffeeKid gave birth to the CoffeeGeek website. It was the first website of its kind — one that combined a professional magazine look, polished product reviews, opinion articles from industry experts, and a large consumer-written review section — all dedicated to the love and pursuit of specialty coffee and espresso.
Some twenty years later, this is where we are. Our site mission remains the same. We are fiercely independent and ethics oriented, and our internal motto remains: “we fight for the consumer”. Our goal is to educate, entertain and inform specialty coffee loving consumers, and to do so honestly and as transparently as possible.
And we’re just getting started.
The CoffeeGeek website’s first and foremost mission is to educate consumers on better coffee and espresso. To know there is a better way to get and enjoy the world’s most popular beverage. We want to promote specialty coffee, and provide a bridge between consumers and the specialty coffee industry. We want consumers around the world to interact and debate the finer points of specialty coffee, to help promote the love of coffee and find people with similar passions. We also want to promote and inform on the social and ethical aspects of specialty coffee globally, so consumers have a better understanding of the entire seed to cup story.
The most important part of this website are the people who create and manage the content. Here is our current team.
Zuzanna travels the world because of her job, and makes it a point to find the best cafes, best coffee, best espresso in every city, town, or village she visits. Her goal is to hit every continent and sample every major type of brewing method.
Robert McKeon Aloe has been working in the field of computer vision, machine learning, and data science for almost two decades. He has been passionately applying these skills to coffee, particularly espresso for the past five years to produce one book (Engineering Better Espresso) with another one on the way (Advanced Espresso).
Allison's day job is highly sought after dog groomer, which encapsulates one of her three loves: dogs. Her other two loves: writing and coffee, are what brought her to the CoffeeGeek writing team. An unabashed V60 fan, Allison also explores Portland's cafe scene with gusto, often taking Max, her border collie with her.
Robyn earned her coffee stripes working as a barista up and down the California coast then became an inside sales rep for a local wholesale coffee roastery. She is currently a contributing writer at BuzzFeed and works in social media marketing and design.
Dana Leighton is a long time CoffeeGeek moderator and site member who will now be writing in our blog.
Mark has certified as a Canadian, USA, and World Barista Championship Judge in both sensory and technical fields, as well as working as an instructor in coffee and espresso training. He started CoffeeGeek in 2001.
Michael Elias is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and anything in-between. They sustain their creativity with the help of their French press and invest it mostly in writing about queer culture. Bylines in Catapult Magazine, Jewish News Detroit, and more.
Marat Oyvetsky is a storyteller and adventurer from San Diego, CA. A writer, always searching for a great story to tell from his travels around the world or experiences from his own backyard. Marat has an insatiable appetite to explore, never afraid to discover something new.
Nikita Ephanov is a culture, travel & tech writer based in the United States. He lives by his morning pour-over and daydreams of visiting the country of origin. Whenever possible, he chases the world's best cups, not for the caffeine, but the community of people behind them.
Every website has to have documents covering serious topics and your interaction, and CoffeeGeek is no different.
Our legal document on copyrights and how they pertain to this website. Includes information about your shared information within the community elements of this website.
Users of this website automatically agree to our set of terms and conditions, which cover how a site member’s content is used, how members interact with each other, and CoffeeGeek’s limited liability.
Besides our normal run of the mill contact form, we invite you to contact us about specific content, content ideas, or request for reviews. Take your pick below.
Got an idea, event, product, or service that you think would be a good subject for the CoffeeGeek Blog? Pass it along here, and we'll review it and possibly assign it to one of our writers. If you would like to write for the CoffeeGeek Blog, indicate that in the form below, along with your pitch.
We review coffees professionally for the CoffeeGeek Blog and would love to consider your coffee for review. Please fill out this form below, and we'll be in touch.
Do you manufacture or sell a product you think would be a good candidate for formal review on CoffeeGeek? Fill out the form below! We review all products related to specialty coffee, and depending on your product, it can be a candidate for a Blog Mini Review, or a First Look and either a QuickShot Review or a Detailed Review.
