Japanese iced coffee brews hot straight onto ice, locking in aromatics that cold brew loses. Learn the ice-to-water math and brew a bright glass in 6 steps.
4 ways to make iced coffee at home. Japanese flash brew, cold brew, instant iced coffee, and iced pour-over compared by flavor, time, effort, and cost.
Cold brew coffee steeps coarse grounds in cold water for 12 to 24 hours. No heat. No equipment beyond a jar and a strainer. The result is a smooth, low-acid concentrate that keeps for two weeks in the fridge.
Instant coffee quality ranges from bitter powder to smooth concentrates with real origin character. Here are 5 things that determine the quality of any instant coffee: base coffee quality, processing method, roast level, packaging, and ratio.
I recently had occasion to visit my old stomping grounds. Coffee grounds were involved.Columbia recently opened a shiny new building, a futuristic affair whose silvery, futuristic aspect I suppose testifies to the forward-looking scientific studies regularly undertaken behind it.On the...
On the ground floor of NYC's Ace Hotel at 29th in between Broadway & 5th is a small, standing-room only coffee bar. It goes by the name of Stumptown. The knock on Stumptown has long been that it's a great espresso...
A gooseneck kettle gives you control over the one thing pour-over depends on. The narrow, curved spout lets you place water exactly where you want. A standard kettle dumps water and drowns the grounds. Precision here separates a flat cup...
Bonavita has done coffee home-brewers a great service by introducing two (cost-)effective devices: an autodrip, and an electric kettle for hand-drip. Their electric gooseneck kettle is, to my knowledge, the only one on the market. Hario presented an electric Buono...
Coffee in space is harder than it looks. Liquid floats, mugs fail, and sealed pouches kill the aroma. Here are 5 facts about how astronauts finally got a real cup.
I am getting to that point in probably a few days that I will be picking up another bag of coffee either on here or through various local means of getting some nice fresh roasted coffee. However, one of the...
As you probably noticed, this week I have Kalita on the brain. Despite the fact that it will be a few months until I get my hands on the Wave Style Set I won, I’m already checking out recipes and...
I'm still playing with recipes for a culinary coffee cookbook and this one is my latest attempt. It's not perfect, but my taste testers tell me that this coffee pastry was "the bomb". The dessert is a simple one --...
We see enough of these “coffee is healthy for you” articles lately, but why not pile on and post one more? Lord knows we had to suffer through enough bad science reports telling us how bad they thought coffee was...
about two months ago I wrote a little blog about the issue that I was getting with my shots off of the Nuova Simonelli Musica; the shot taste mightly fine but at the end, there was a lot of grit...
I agree with one of our bloggers here that the various brewing guides available online are worth checking out, but I forgot to mention in my comment under his post that I found Intelligentsia’s guide for the Eva Solo Café...
The processing method used on a coffee determines its flavor profile before the roaster ever touches it. Here is how washed, natural, and honey processing work, what each one does to the cup, and how to read processing information on a coffee bag.
Nobody plans to take up coffee as a hobby, and then you own three brewers. Here are 6 signs the obsession has you, and why the payoff arrives every morning.
So this last month has been crazy busy and while I've enjoyed plenty of coffee I haven't had much of a chance to write about it. It's been over a month since my last post. I finished off the...
Coffee health headlines swing wildly, and the studies behind them are usually more modest. Here are 5 questions to ask before you believe the next one.
Caffeine and sleep are linked for longer than most people realize. Learn how long caffeine lasts, how to find your own cut-off time, and when to switch to decaf.
French press is one of the simplest and most forgiving brew methods. No paper filters, no complicated technique. Here is the complete guide to getting the best cup from your French press every time.
