Although our co-workers in LA get to enjoy the awesomeness of Intelligentsia for their coffee cravings, here in Austin we’ve got a few great spots for our caffeine fix as well. One of Austin’s more well known joints for chowing down on pancakes and sipping on mighty good coffee is the greatness of Kerby Lane Cafe. The provider of their blend of house coffee is the locally owned and operated Third Coast Coffee Roasting Company. If you’ve ever wondered how those coffee beans turn out so tasty, check out this javatastic video about what goes on at Third Coast:

One of the things that keeps the Dangerbird crew fully charged and ready to rock is lots and lots of coffee. Our LA HQ has a rad espresso machine, and our Austin HQ always has a fresh pot of coffee brewing. As I was cruising through my normal morning routine of eyeballing my RSS reader, a particular blog headline instantly caught my attention: Coffee Inhaler. Hmmm.

So a company called Le Whif, which had apparently already created breathable chocolate, has now done the same thing for coffee. According to the NY Post (via Boing Boing):

The coffee hits consist of powder inside lipstick-like containers that are pulled open, inserted in the mouth and inhaled.

The sticks are sold individually for $3 or in boxes of three for $8 — and each stick delivers 100 milligrams of caffeine, the equivalent of a cup of espresso.

A whiffer can get up to nine hits from an individual stick, depending on how hard they inhale.

I think I’ll stick to ingesting my espresso the good ol’ fashioned way.

This one is for all of our espresso fanatics at Dangerbird HQ. Enjoy this really neat film on the art of making the perfect espresso, straight from the coffee gurus at Intelligentsia (via Neatorama).