There are a lot of roasters here on Roaste, and it can be hard to pick out a coffee sometimes just due to the wide selection. I tend to be a lot like other people you find a roaster or...
As you who follow these blogs know by now, I have been experimenting with home coffee roasting using an eight dollar heat gun from Harbor Freight along with a metal bowl and a wooden salad fork to stir with (I...
I was stoked by the results from my heat gun and metal bowl roasting experiment with some Kenyan beans. So stoked that I went to my stash and found another favorite for some more fun. I scooped out 228g (1/2...
I just realized that this is the first week of 2012 during which I didn’t receive any new coffees! Well, unless you count single-serve. A shipment of Fratello coffee pods from the Coffee Artisan did arrive Monday, and a box...
About a month ago a online blogger Daelyn Fortney, from This Dish is Veg, received a reported from a reader that Starbucks had begun using red dye from crushing beetles to create a natural product. The dye was ending up...
I like the look of the Baratza Vario, and the grinds I have enjoyed from it seemed to be great. Now these were fine grinds for espresso though, not coarse grinds for press or metal filter brewing. Let me start...
My suspicion of decaf coffee is only heightened by the rhetoric used to defend it."This decaf is not like other decafs.""This decaf is nearly indistinguishable from regular coffee."And so forth.The language assumes in advance an objection...and with good reason. Most...
With Mother's Day coming up I am looking for something nice to get my Grandmother. She likes coffee but tends to go to instant. Her instant of choice is Taster's Choice. She does not like the Starbucks. Part of why...
Today I rolled the dice. Bid on an old Cona tabletop on Ebay, a post-war model, that doesn't have a filter or burner. But, for less than the price a new Yama, I thought it was worth a shot just...
As many of you have no doubt already gathered, the 24th Annual SCAA Exposition is underway! This is the first year that I’m sufficiently into specialty coffee to have SCAA on my radar screen, though I’m not hardcore enough (yet)...
When do coffees come into season? Does anyone know when coffees from the different regions come into season, I would assume that not all coffees become available at the same time. I have seen out of stocks on several coffees...
威爾Family ♥ Ryan,Will,Lilian / Stock Photos One of the minor annoyances of being a stay-at-home worker in a town that doesn't have much of a coffee culture is that people just don't get you. I mean, they really don't get...
Recently, I came across a new community outreach project that Counter Culture Coffee is starting called, "Save our Soil." The basic gist of the campaign is that convential farming is depleting the top soil that allows for plants to flourish,...
A while back Chamie posted about a neat looking new coffee maker from Bodum. I got offered the chance to play with one of these and didn't want to pass up on that opportunity. The Bodum Bistro brewer came in...
Neven recently visited our Roastery here on the Malahide Road in his search for the perfect coffee to feature in his recipe. Neven met with our Master Roaster Paul O’Toole and his expert team of roasters and baristas. He received...
One of the nice things about making coffee at home is the ability to adjust your coffee to your own preferences. One of my own preferences is to make a very low amount of coffee for drip brewing. When I...
It’s been my experience that coffees are finicky with respect to brew method. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve said something like “coffee X was fine in the Clever but really shone as a pourover,” etc.,...
I play an online video game called Lord of the Rings Online. (I love this game!). What I find funny is that you can grow coffee in the game, process the beans and create something called "Second Breakfast Blend" coffee....
NatalieMaynor / Stock Photos Should local roasters be allowed to sell their products at local farmers' markets? I love coffee. I love coffee roasters. I love shopping at farmers' markets. I never thought about combining the two before reading an...
So I ordered a pouring kettle directly from a Japanese shop. It was fun! As far as online shopping goes. It was a bit of a minefield navigating those address boxes but somehow, and for a mere, $20 bucks or...
