Last summer, we gave you a round up of where to get really good iced coffee in Montclair. The list still stands, but there are some additions this summer that we need to share:
Java Love, which serves up an amazing iced coffee is now offering  64 oz Growlers of cold brew to take home or to a party. A growler, for those who don’t know,  is a glass or ceramic jug typically used to transport draft beer. Java Love fills them with iced coffee – genius. The cost is$14.95 plus a$7.50 deposit. When it’s empty, you just bring the jug back and you’ll get the$7.50 deposit refund or ask them for a refill.Â
Montclair Bread Company is offering shaken iced lattes made with Stumptown cold brew espresso served in mason jars. You can get them flavored with  Nutella, Dark Chocolate, Vanilla Bean or chai from Montclair’s own Yogic Chai and made with farm fresh whole milk, skim, soy or almond milk.
Another one of my summer addictions is the Thai Iced Coffee at Terra Tea Salon at MPL. Great espresso and condensed sweetened milk over ice. Enough said.
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I love iced coffee as much as the next guy, in fact probably more so… make that definitely more so, the guy sitting next to me is obviously a troglodyte… but can we please have a little more punch on this site? A little more oomph? A bit more sex appeal? Something racey, controversial, not politically correct. Something to get all riled up about, or laugh about.
We have slipped into a summer torpor that I fear will become permanent if we let it go more than 21 days as per gratitude article.
I buy my iced coffee in tumblers.
Haven’t insults always been par for the course here? I seem to remember someone calling me “groundling.” And worse.
Funny, just yesterday I took a long look at the site and thought it’s become confusing and bloated– I still check it every 10 mins. But where this current version was more clean than the pervious, little additions here and there have hurt the look and feel of it.
But this is true for most sites, how do you organize all this info? Conceal, condense or eliminate.
Tabs and drop downs conceal and condense. But some things need to be eliminated.
Here we have 14 (14!) categories/tabs to choose from (“Places” “Sirens,” etc.). This leads to some stories disappearing from view. The best example of this was the reporting on Montclair High’s graduation, which included some great tweets and pictures.
However, while it was one of “featured five,” the pix used for these five items was so small and unclear– I missed the story. (I only found it after thinking that surely it was covered and searching about).
The ads are tasteful and relevant (though “Sponsored Content” or “In-Kind” trades should always be labeled as such).
But again, I think most of this is growing pains, which is to be expected when a site becomes a destination. And Baristanet is THE destination for local news and information so these pains can easily be addressed with a move towards a cleaner design that eliminates the “busy” look by eliminating redundant or unnecessary item.
Prof, a site that’s wo years old does not have “growing pains.”
And it’s not just a summer torpor,” walleroo. You know better, you impish provocateur, you. You, however, a groundling? Pish! A varlet or a churl, maybe, but a groundling?
(I’m also curious to see if this comment “goes through”, since my previous one here seems to have disappeared. Has Ms. Galant become “she who shall not be named?” And I was praising her!)
Now to go get me a growler of something both stronger and more relevant than “fair trade” coffee for the weekend.
Did I get a compliment? It’s like the rehabilitation of Richard Nixon! I must be looking better in retrospect.
Not to be prejudiced by my husband makes the best damned iced coffee this side of the Mississippi.
Oh how far we’ve come from the good old days, when Debbie was trying to hound cathar off the site. And now the lion is lying down with the lamb. What’s next, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
And here, for the benefit of Mr. Kite, are all the articles on Baristanet that mention the Four Horsemen of the Apocalpyse:
Montclair’s Brian Saltzman Goes All In At World Series of Poker (My personal favorite.)
Shootings At Empire State Building: UPDATED
https://montclairlocal.net/2009/10/mayor-frieds-campaign-against-elected-boe-raises-hackles/“>Mayor Fried’s Campaign Against Elected BOE Raises Hackles
https://montclairlocal.net/2007/01/the-grinch-that-stole-recess-again/“>The Grinch That Stole Recess … Again
O crap I screwed up the html. I miss the preview button.
Really, walleroo, you actually had time to look all that up? Was it worth leaving your lathe or cobbler’s bench for?
Oh!!!! Thanks Mr. Roo. You included one of my favorite cathar quotes ever:
“It’s not that high a horse, Herb. (More like a Shetland pony.)”
I’ve used it ofter, giving no credit at all, save for a sly smile in recognition to cathar.
As for Iced-Coffee, not for me. It turns too watery too quickly- throwing my cream/coffee/sugar mix WAY off.
I only checked the Saltzsman story, walleroo, but what immediately struck me on that one was how almost all of those who rushed stoutly to the defense of the poker-playing financial adviser never post here anymore. (At least not by their posting names from back then.) There’s a lesson for us all in that someplace.
That was one of my all time favorite comment threads. Baristanet in those early days was good preparation for the age of Twitter, with all its frothing, hyperventilating and mob behavior.
Maybe that’s where everyone went?
Not from Montclair, but Gencarelli’s in Bloomfield has one of those good old coffee machines (Bunn, I think) I just buy a cup of black coffee, take it home and throw ice cubes in it. But I also take the canolli!
Ah,good times.
Those who commute from Bay St would know we have been serving Cold Brewed Single Origin Coffee, locally roasted weekly and poured from our manually pumped Keg system 🙂
Yaloandme @49 Church St. has the BEST coffee around.