Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood: The Coffee Dictionary – An Extract
Part of coffee’s beauty lies in its complexity. From the intricacies of coffee processing to the precise parameters of brewing, there are numerous details that ...read more
AeroPress Coffee Guide: How to Brew Different Flavor Profiles
What does your morning coffee taste like? With the AeroPress, that depends on your mood. One of the greatest things about this iconic device is ...read more
What Is Agitation & How Does It Make My Filter Coffee Better?
Filter coffee is great, isn’t it? The calming drip of the brew, the elegance of the pour-over process, and the coffee itself – a smooth ...read more
Brewing Methods Compared: How Should You Make Coffee at Home?
Looking for a new coffee brewing device? You’ve got a lot to choose from. And every single one will produce a different coffee taste, not ...read more
The Great Paper Coffee Filters Debate: Bleached vs Unbleached
Coffee filters: they’re small, humble, and critical for great-tasting coffee. But if you – like the majority of coffee brewers – use paper filters, should ...read more
Brew Guide: What Are The 3 Phases of Drip Coffee Brewing?
The ability to control coffee extraction is both one of the best, and one of the trickiest, things about drip brewing. There are so many ...read more
What’s The Difference Between Espresso And Filter Coffee?
Coffee’s not just coffee any more. Specialty shops have completely changed the way we view and taste our cup of Joe. We’ve discovered a myriad ...read more
Coffee Extraction & Other Key Brewing Concepts
Home preparation is one of the amazing things about coffee. If you drink it at home, you’re probably doing a little work, like grinding beans ...read more
How to Brew Coffee at Home: A Guide For Beginners
So you love the coffee from your favorite coffee shop and want to recreate the same quality at home. Many beginners find this intimidating, but ...read more
SCA Launches 2-Year Research Into Fundamentals of Brewing Coffee
Brewing coffee’s about to get a lot more scientific. Yes, even more scientific than using refractometers and calculating tamping pressure. Because the SCA and UC ...read more
Coffee 101: Extraction & The “Strong Coffee” Myth
We’ve all heard someone say “I like my coffee strong” – and maybe we’ve even said it ourselves. But what we mean by this, and ...read more
Filter Coffee: What’s a VANDOLA & How Do You Brew With It?
The specialty coffee market has no shortage of brewing methods to choose from. There’s the Kalita Wave, the Hario V60, the Chemex, the AeroPress, the ...read more
AeroPress Tips & Recipes From The Cafés That Serve Them
The AeroPress may be one of the newer brewing methods on the coffee block, but it’s also one of the most popular. Easy to use, ...read more
How to Develop and Market Coffee Equipment in 5 Steps
Patrik Stridsberg and his team at 3TEMP develop coffee equipment, which is probably one of the coolest jobs in the world. But as cool as ...read more
The Specialty Coffee Shops That Prefer Batch Brewers to a V60
Go into some coffee shops and ask for V60 or Chemex, and they’ll politely say no. They don’t offer them, but they do have batch ...read more
Extreme Coffee: How to Brew in The Great Outdoors
Hiking, sailing, mountaineering, camping… there’s no substitute for getting outdoors. And whether you’re a three-hour-walk-on-a-Sunday kind of person, or you’re more just-off-to-climb-Mt.-Everest-see-you-in-a-few-months, it’s always better ...read more