In a major breakthrough for the impatient and sensitively tongued, local coffee drinker Dave Baker cooled down his hot black coffee with a reasonable amount of ice. The discovery happened early Tuesday morning when Dave stopped in at Ready Set! Coffee for his usual cup of Deep Track.

We here at Ready Set love reading—just like you! After all, you’re reading a coffee website blog. Whether you’re on your couch, in your car, or sitting in the café, we’ve compiled our research into six irrefutable principles to reflect on and practice while reading at Ready Set—or any café at large.

And what’s more important to a daily routine than coffee? Specifically, your coffee cup?

The discourse over the ideal coffee cup is divisive, deeply personal, and highly opinionated. At least we can take solace in knowing that politics isn’t anything like that.

Today, we’re covering the basics of how coffee roasting actually works. From soup to nuts—except, you know, there’s no soup… or nuts… just coffee. But we’ll be covering the broad strokes of the process, which will prepare you and your classmates for your education here at Ready Set Onlineversity

Presidents Day—the odd stepchild of American holidays. We here at Ready Set, however, being the staunch presidential historians and purveyors of coffee, are wholeheartedly thrilled to celebrate our presidents of yore and the coffee these gentlemen may or may not have had when sitting in the Oval Office.

Ahoy ye fellow landlubbers, John here. Todays tale takes us to the treacherous and tumultuous streets of the west side suburbs. Me first matey, Cam, has once again joined me on this voyage, coining the chronicles of one Captain Robert Menard....

It isn’t hard to buy your office friends gifts. A candle, a gift card. Toss it in a bag with ribbon handles, throw a dollop of tissue paper, call it day. But what about your other friends? You know, those friends. The fringe lunatics, the trash worshippers, the ramblers and the wanderers. The trees with far away eyes and the whisps of smoke in the night. The ones you don’t know why they’re your friends. You don’t even know if they’re real people or just wildcats conjured by your imagination.

John here, something a little different this time. Veteran Bagel chef and former Ready Set employee Cameron Mays has so...