Coffee Tasting Parties:

Wine tasting is so 20^th Century, the avante grade of the new millennium is coffee tasting. NY Times article by Hannah Wallace offers:

“Recently, Starbucks retrained baristas and introduced one-cup-at-a-time Clover brewing machines in select stores to boost quality. Still, some discerning New Yorkers would rather frequent so-called “third wave” cafes, where tattooed baristas not only know which far-flung farm grew their coffee, but also steer regulars to new arrivals in the same way a sommelier suggests a Bordeaux.”