Tastier News. First Ever CoffeeCon 2012

On 02/25/12, Warrenville, Illinois will host the first ever CoffeeCon. CoffeeCon is a consumer event. According to the Kevin Sinnott, the organizer of the event and "nationally recognized coffee expert, having appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show",

CoffeeCon is designed for consumers. If you’ve ever attended an industry trade show, you know how hard it is to be treated well when your badge lacks a prominent company name.

CoffeeCon is 100% aimed at consumers. The focus is tasting and learning how to brew. Coffee is a cooking art. If you’re into coffee, you know this already. Like any cooking art, you want to see how others achieve those perfect cups of coffee.

Our focus is taste, aroma, knowledge and community with each other, in a relaxed atmosphere.

One of the sponsoring companies is I Have a Bean, whom I jokingly refer as Convict Coffee because of the mission statement,

Our company was created for a purpose – to positively impact the lives of post-prison men and women, their families, and the communities in which we live. (Emphasis Theirs)

I've purchased coffee from I Have A Bean many times and have never been disappointed with the resultant brew.

CoffeeCon 2012 is being held from 0900-1700 on 02/25/12 at IBEW Local Union 701
28600 Bella Vista Parkway Warrenville, IL 60555, a southern suburb located 25 miles west of Chicago in the heart of the high-tech corridor.

Convict Coffee or I Have A Bean

This is a laudable effort. Unlike merely accepting a convicts assertion that he strokes jesus the Second Chance Coffee Company at 657 Childs Street Wheaton, Illinois offers released convicts employment as one part of an effort to stem recidivism. Recidivism really means, as every cop knows, once a piece of shit criminal always a piece of shit criminal.

I Have A Bean is a excellent idea which may help stop the cycle and give these p.o.s. criminals a real second chance, which they don't receive in the criminal training ground known as prison. And even if it fails most of the time, it will be a success, if it helps even a single perp turn his life around.

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