The Reading Room

If you’ve read any of my blog posts you can probably figure out that I’m a “hands on” kind of guy. I like to use a manual grinder to grind my beans and I like using the French press (and...

No gimmicks here. No roasting their own beans out in the open (a la Elemental Coffee), or selling brewing equipment. No, what you’ll find here is absolutely spectacular espresso, espresso based drinks, pour over coffee, chai, tea, funky baked goods...

If you’re like me and try to stick to a regular workout program, you’ll probably at some point want to incorporate whey protein powder into it. If you’re still like me, you’ll not care at all for artificial sugar substitutes...

Product review – Solis Maestro Classic. This was the first grinder I ever owned that I tried to use for espresso.  Sure I had a series of cheap blade grinders, but when I got my first real espresso machine I...

ROASTe has been offering the Aerobie AeroPress espresso and coffee maker for a while now. I really enjoy this method of making a delicious cup of coffee. I can not help but notice the attention this prep method has been...

/files/u2252/Wall_171_350.jpg" align="right" height="350" width="235" /> I do love hand powered coffee grinders. My favorite ones are from Germany, Holland, and Italy and come from manufacturers that unfortunately are, for the most part, no longer in business. Of the few old...

I’m someone who constantly likes to try to find better ways of doing things. When I first got the Aeropress I followed the default directions to the letter. They’re easily found online or at this Roaste blog post. But one...

/files/u13866/100_2001.jpg" width="300" height="225" align="left" />There literally are coffee shops popping up everywhere, and even though I had this blog post working in the back of my head, it appears I was beat to the punch by this article. The article...

Harsh or delicious –who is to say?  I have a coffee problem.  The problem is that I like lots of kinds of coffee and my wife does not.  She loves dark roasts including the ones from a very large coffee...

As the old saying goes, "Necessity is the Mother of all invention." I started using this not so clever dripper after I found myself alone on a Saturday without wife or child and my glass carafe broke from a bad...

This is the first (in hopefully a series) of posts on the coffees I'm working my way through. I'm the kind of guy that seldom orders the same thing twice, so I should have new ones  every couple of weeks....

Underextracted also known as my failure at hitting a moving target until I grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat. This is a two part blog post because I started typing about my failure pulling a very nice shot and...

Underextracted also known as my failure at hitting a moving target until I grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat. This is a two part blog post because I started typing about my failure pulling a very nice shot and...

Today I had a cup of aeropress coffee made from stale ground coffee, and it was not all that bad! Before anyone accuse me, please let me explain my situation. Yesterday, I was bringing the aropress to school so that...

If want to get into espresso you should take a hard look at the Gaggia Classic.I've had this machine now for well over six months and feel like I can give a good take on what the strengths and weaknesses...

Here's a followup to my at-home expense calculations. Regarding a couple of things I didn't mention in the previous post (that jbviau and intrepid510 pointed out). 1) Shipping - Yes you have to pay shipping on Roaste. $5.95 per shipment,...

Ok, so this isn’t really a coffee shop. But so what? I had an espresso there and it was unacceptably bad. I mean, ok, I get that everyone screws up a shot every once in a while. I’ve had bad...

So far I’ve been in Oklahoma City for a little over three months and I’ve been able to find only two really top notch coffee shops. Everyone wants something different when they go to a café; some people want a...

Living in San Fran I was constantly surrounded by excellent cafes and coffee roasters. I lived upstairs from a great café, across the street from another great café and a block away from the local coffee roasters. However, at the...

My first foray into serious appreciation of coffee included the purchase of a blade Bodum coffee grinder. With time, however, I began to realize the inadequacy of this device to making coffee with any real consistency; when using the blade...

I am really excited to be able to start adding to the breadth of knowledge here as ROASTe. I believe that it's nice to know a little background on whomever you talking with or reading in this case, i.e. I...