The Reading Room

From my previous blogs, I have indicate that beside enjoying artisan roasted coffee,  I also enjoying roasting my own coffee. For one thing, roasting my own coffee had made me appreciate how much work it is to actually goes into...

It seem to me that for a lot of coffee enthusiasts, after a periods of enjoying coffee whether it is drip brewed, french pressed or in moka pots, there will be a certain point where they want to acquire an...

I'm not sure if this clip from Bodum sends quite the message the company wants to send. Watch and judge for yourself. The new Bodum Bistro Pourover coffee machine is an "updated" version of the automatic drip coffee maker that...

I have written in the past about the various espresso baskets that I have gotten over the past month or so. I was searching for something at the time that would give me something to experiment with and hopefully improve...

In one of the newest news stories here on Roaste I could not help to notice the link of a S.O espresso by Paradise roasters at the bottom of the page, India Sitara. The real interesting thing about this espresso...

I got lucky this weekend and got my hands on a workable digital camera (thanks to a writing client who wants coffee how-tos with pictures), so I thought I'd practice by sharing a little amateur coffee porn. This was my...

This blog started as an answer to the question asked in a blog here on ROASTe. In short, the blogger asks if someone is ever satisfied with their espresso gear – is enough ever enough? Is enough ever enough? It...

There is an interesting side to coffee that I was really unaware of until probably two or so years ago when I started looking at getting an espresso machine, the hobby side. I think that is a fair way to...

So, I noticed this article detailing the shortage of Arabica beans on the Wall Street Journal site earlier today and thought it might be interesting to discuss in a blog post. I’m not really sure the details on Arabica vs....

The extraction method matters when picking the ideal temperature for brewed coffee. After Scott Lush’s surprising and insightful post about water temperature (no it was not surprising that he was insightful – it was just a post that was insightful...

This suddenly hit me yesterday as I was drinking my espresso, that I had not made a milk based espresso drink for myself in over a week. I had also had yesterday five shots of espresso and of those only...

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A while back I read a blog post here talking about the Mypressi Twist. Since then I’ve researched it exhaustively and determined that I would purchase one as my first espresso machine.Ok, I didn’t so much research it exhaustively as...

I ordered this coffee (using e-beans so thanks ROASTe) as a present for my brother. I posted about this coffee in another earlier blog back on December 15th and finally ordered it on December 25th.  The beans arrived on the...

This whole week I have been drinking a coffee from Rwanda with the cool name of Abakundekawa and I'm reminded again of why this is absolutely one of my most favorite coffee. This coffee was obtained in green form and...

There are a lot of places out on the internet that will tell you how to make coffee and if you do a search of YouTube you can find even more that will show you to make coffee, however they...

Last week, I announced the arrival of my new espresso machine. Granted, the Espressione Squissita Plus doesn't rank up there with the Pavonis and Elektras and lovely high-end machines that others have managed to acquire, but it IS the first...

A hat tip to the UK Daily Mail for this Jimmy Kimmel video featuring his long-suffering security guard, Adelina. If you haven't seen it, it's an absolute must-watch. Take 4 minutes out of your Saturday morning to laugh. There are...

I think it is rather unforunate that to me all Kona Coffee means is this stuff at Jack-in-the-Box and I would suspect that it's becoming increasingly that way. It seems that all it takes is a little bit of Kona...

So, 2011 is six days over, but I just saw this post today about the coffees that James Hoffman drank in 2011 (plus the cool picture) and thought that it might be interesting to revisit what I’ve had the past...

After blogging about my espresso off of my new Elektra Karrde asked the excellent question about if there are not diminishing returns in espresso machines in terms of price and I replied that yes I thought there were and that...