The Reading Room

Can we talk about pour-over for a minute? I haven’t really embraced it despite the fact that I have a Hario V60 cone and a Beehouse at my disposal as well as the Bonavita electric kettle. Frankly, I love full-immersion...

This morning's mailbox coffee grab bag included a fair amount of coffee news that was actually interesting, a switch from the past few weeks when my Google "coffee" alert was focused on news that was about weight loss, the stock...

Over this past weekend due to a little logistical issues with ordering a coffee that was no longer available I did find myself without any coffee. And in the gap I ended up buying a nice espresso blend from Scarlet...

While looking through the forums this morning I found an interesting article that someone had linked about a coffee geeks travels through Italy and the espresso bars that she encounter along her journey. It was written by Erin Meister, who...

There have been a few things that I have noticed going on sale or close to going on sale that I have wanted to post about, but don't really deserve a full on post by themselves. So now that I...

Like sometimes happens when ordering coffee through the internet you end up in a spot where an order doesn't make it to you when you thought it would for one reason or another. In this case I had placed an...

It's Mother's Day. How are you treating your mother? I don't mean the woman who gave birth to you or the one who raised you. I'm talking about our Mother, Mother Earth, without whom none of us would be here....

A tweet about Fratello showed up in my feed this afternoon. This is a high-quality roaster based out of Calgary whose green buyer, Russ Prefontaine, goes out of his way to source great coffee by establishing “direct trade” relationships with...

My Mother's Day present from my daughter and son-in-law just arrived and I couldn't be more tickled, especially since I'm down to just my own roast in the house right now. I should have guessed that I'd be getting a...

I'm a total sucker for pretty coffee gadgets, so when I spotted the Cafino coffee maker on -- of all places, a website that sells home lighting products, it stopped me in my tracks. It's described as sort of a...

I have heard so much thing about different manual drip brewers such as the Hario, the Beehouse and the Chemex and have been itching to try this brewing method. However, I have not been able to have enough incentive to...

The net have been buzzing about this lately: a completely new burr set for the Baratza Vario that suposedly can grind as good as the big boys! This had been drawn to my attention a little while ago by EricBNC...

Dwell-time recently opened up in Mid-Cambridge, MA, near Inman Square. 364 Broadway to be exact. The name delightfully captures the intent of the bar's founders: in keeping with the bar's preparatory precision, dwell-time is a technical coffee term that refers...

Dwell-time recently opened up in Mid-Cambridge, MA, near Inman Square. 364 Broadway to be exact. The name delightfully captures the intent of the bar's founders: in keeping with the bar's preparatory precision, dwell-time is a technical coffee term that refers...

Y'all probably remember how ecstatic I was when this espresso machine arrived in my house back in January. We had real espresso -- yay! Even the roommate, who is a coffee Philistine, asked to learn how to use the espresso...

While reading the recent study that I shared about the sloshing of coffee there was an interesting article linked within it to, "Why Does Room Temperature Coffee Tast So Bad?" over at Lifeslittlemysteries.com. I was not shocked that they talked...

Remember that award-winning recipe (repeated below) with the monster dose that Jay Caragay (of Spro) used to win the U.S. Aeropress Championship? I tried it today. Here’s what happened in quasi-real time.1. 36 grams of coffee, ground to a “10”...

My kitchen coffee bar is sporting a new accessory this morning -- a Hamilton Beach BrewStation Summit Ultra automatic drip coffee machine. Doesn't it look cozy next to the Espressione coffee grinder? I ordered this baby on ROASTe last week...

Yes, the results of this little competition among an arbitrary collection of blends are in. To preview, none of the three challengers could beat my [recent] memory of PT's B-Ville House Drip, but the ranking I ended up with for...

Speaking of the recent comment by one of our bloggers about topping off you morning coffee instead of starting with a new cup, it reminded me of an article that I came across the other night about sloshing coffee in...

My dad seems to have a cup of coffee that lasts all day. When the level goes down he "tops it off" and if it gets cold he warms it up via microwave. My coffee has never lasted that long...