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What are you taking away from our awesome coffee world right now? Let us know about cool trends, fun gear, killer drinks, events, places, people—you get the idea! Email takeaway@baristamagazine.com. Café Imports Debuts Inspired World Specialty-Coffee Map If Andy Reiland hadn't been standing close to the strik- ing, elaborately detailed World Specialty Coffee Map hanging in the Café Imports booth at the Global Specialty Coffee Expo in Seattle in April, it would surely have been snatched. "Omigod, can I have one?" was perhaps the most oft-heard phrase of the three-day show around Café Imports' stand, as countless visitors begged for a map of their own. The version on display in Seattle, however, was a mock-up of a work-in-progress that Andy, Café Imports' creative director, had been working on as a passion proj- ect for several years. Today the map is finished and available for all via Café Imports' website. " We intend to explore mapping as a tool—visually streamlining the way we communicate coffee traceability, and educate about coffee origins," says Andy. "This global version of the map is a major mile- stone for us in that exploration, and we're excited to see where it takes us next." Coffee travelers, time to invest in some pushpins. www.cafeimports.com/maps Barista Magazine on Orange Is the New Black Not long after the fi fth season of Netfl ix's hit show Orange Is the New Black was released on June 9, our phones started buzzing and emails were pinging way more than usual. The commotion had to do with episode seven, "Full Bush, Half Snickers," in which the inmates at the all-women Litchfi eld Penitentiary start their own coffee shop using instant coffee and creamer pilfered from the security guards' locker room. A prisoner named Brandy, played by Asia Kate Dillon, leans against the makeshift bar chatting about producing countries and menu expansion, to which the inmate serving coffee chuckles to a cohort, "Listen to Chock-Full- of-fancy-Nuts over here." Brandy proudly retorts, "I was on the cover of Barista Magazine twice." Were we delighted? Yes! Was it a bummer that our fi ctional cover girl was a white supremacist? Totally. Having Barista Magazine mentioned on one of our favorite TV shows was still pretty cool, though. www.netfl ix.com A Special Roast for Dustin Demers Though the San Francisco Bay Area coffee community is still mourning the sudden passing of beloved local roaster Dustin Demers of Turning Point Coffee a few months ago, Andytown Coffee has found a unique way to honor him. " When he passed away, he had a lot of inventory that his brother inherited—green coffee, roasting equipment," says Lauren Crabbe of Andytown, based in San Francisco. " When we found out he had all this cof- fee, we thought that we couldn't let this coffee go to market and have people roast it however they wanted." Lauren alighted on several bags from Ecuador's Juan Peña, a producer with whom Dustin had a close relationship. " We wanted to create something in Dustin's name that would have…an im- pact." Their solution: roast with the profile Dustin had intended for the coffee, and donate all proceeds to the construction of a cupping lab in Ecuador. Released under the name, "A Turning Point Project" recently, the coffee is available to purchase at Andytown and online now. www.andytownsf.com 20 barista magazine