The Reading Room

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This one has been a pretty refreshing coffee to have after going through a lot of dark roasts. It's nice how after having a lot of chocolate/carmel coffees to get something a little brighter and this medium roast by Paradise...

Christmas is probably long due but I still haven’t got one present for myself. So I went ahead and indulged myself with something that I had my eye on for a very very long time. Though very likely, I would...

So I am on the search for a good decaf coffee due to my wife being pregnant, and while I know it's been said through the roasting process of coffee that very little if any chemicals remain from the decaffination...

As incredible as it seems, writer Melissa Introne has never developed a liking for coffee and now asks if she’s missing out. In an article on January 1, she writes about her needs for caffeine, her parents’ mixed marriage (mom...

Wow -- it feels like I've been gone forever even though it's only been about 4 days since my last blog entry here -- but what a busy 4 days. First -- remember this: That would be the espresso machine...

Well, I have become quite interest in decaf recently due to the knowledge of my wife become pregnant. While we are both uncertain of any ill effects that caffeine may or may not have on the impact of a growing...

Day one of brewing with the Hario for my wife.   I blogged the other day about the gift of a Hario V60 as a gift that I admired and had a good cup of coffee from.  Today it was...

I think I have just about chronicled the wide variety of items that I have gotten over the holidays except for perhaps my favorite gift a set of these Inker Porecelain cups. I was forunate enough to receive two espresso...

The Versalab grinder -  a few quick impressions after a morning of use.   The Versalab M3 grinder is one I have always wanted to play with and one of the few really high end grinder lines that I had...

With the proliferation of scantily clad barista-babes manning drive-thru coffee stands, many might answer false to the above question. After all, if it works for bars and lounges, surely the concept should help to sell coffee. However, Teresa Gubbins wrote...

/files/u5804/photo1-26.jpg" width="264" height="500" /> A trip to Target this morning left me with a “small world” coffee experience and simultaneously reminded me of something I’d written a while back, so I thought I’d take a moment to briefly describe what...

I like my friends! I blogged a while back about friends who brought me home roasted coffee, micro roasted coffee, lent me a Mypressi twist, and let me play with a Cremina.  Etc. Today a friend dropped by and brought...

Coffee in general is a pretty subjective, mainly because it's food so some people are going to like different flavors than others. There are some types of flavors in coffee that are generally liked by all people who drink like...

  I have been blogging in the past about using the La Pavoni Lever espresso machine to prepare espresso as well as milk drinks. However, I never really make a video or describe my approach to using this machine. Despite...

To start off the new year, I"m drinking a cup of Malawi Mapanga AAA roasted a little more than a week ago.  I have been drinking SO espresso from this coffee from both the La Pavoni Profesional and also in...

Bringing in the new year coffee style.  I am thrilled that with the new year only a few hours away I was still pulling shots of espresso!  I normally quit drinking coffee at about 3 pm and my wife quits...

If you think a coffee bean has an easy go of it, you might want to watch a fun fast-paced video on the production of some Kenyan beans. Produced by a Norwegian roaster with Charles Mingus jazz fusion music in...

I have reported here in the past about my trouble with plumbing in the Nuova Simonelli (yes, I have the plumb-in version): http://coffeekind.com/reading-room/blog/another-machine-problem-nuova-si.... Like I have said, what I did was just dropping the Musica's hose into a water container....

I have written a few posts about the different espresso baskets that I have gotten to use with my espresso machine. While I can go on and on about talking about the differences these baskets can and cannot cause I...