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This morning, thanks to the magic of Youtube, I shared my coffee with a family that produces coffee on a certified organic farm in Peru. There's not a lot in this video that I didn't already know about coffee production,...

How fine do you need to grind for auto drip? Do you need th grind very fine - just coarser than espresso fine? Do you need to grind on the coarse side to keep the water flowing through the filter?...

http://foter.com/img/photo/3/coffee-and-wine_l.jpg" width="427" height="298" class="foter-photo" style="display: block" /> Photo Credit: Rob Qld /Foter Sometime last week I read a fun little satirical blog post written by a self-confessed wine snob and addressed to the growing population of self-confessed coffee snobs. The...

This is a bit of rant so bear with me... I hate to continue the mermaid bashing, but I was at a Target the other night that had a certain coffee company located inside of it and heard a conversation...

Sometimes being too cheap isn’t so bad? I have a shameful confession.  There is a product that I have been dying to try ever since it was introduced.  That product is Starbuck’s instant coffee Via.  They claimed when it came...

Two years ago, the Lakewood, Washington community was shaken by the shooting deaths of five of its law enforcement officers. On the anniversary, an espresso counter was opened in the high school where the children of some of the officers...

A cappuccino is one-third espresso, one-third steamed milk, and one-third foam , served in a 5 to 6 oz cup. It is smaller, stronger, and foamier than a latte. This guide covers the correct ratio, the difference between dry and wet cappuccino, how it compares to a latte, and how to make one at home.

One of the most underestimated tool in our home barista arsenal must be a knockbox; however, you do not really know how valuable a knockbox is until you don't have it. It is essentially a very simple design, a bin...

/files/u5804/Eva_Solos.jpg" height="500" width="439" /> In the past, I've talked about how much I enjoy "coffee for one" brewed using my Eva Solo 0.6 L, and I've also described my experience trying to squeeze "coffee for two" out of its modest-sized...

What makes a blend work better for a specific machine?  I have often wondered this and I do not have an answer, but there is no question that some blends taste better to me on one machine than another.  I...

Just in time for the gift-giving season, there’s a new coffee brewer that every coffee lover would love to find under his tree. This one does it all while hiding its working parts under a cabinet, making it the most...

The coffee supply chain has 6 stages between the farm and your cup: farming, processing, milling, exporting, roasting, and delivery. Each stage affects freshness and flavor. Understanding how coffee moves from origin to roaster explains why the time between roast and cup matters as much as where the beans came from.

One of the lovely things about coffee is that once you think you have tried most method of preperation or think you have at least made all of the variations with the combination of equipment you have. Anyway as going...

  http://foter.com/img/photo/3/ground-espresso-with-raw-sugar_l.jpg" style="display: block; width: 100%" class="foter-photo" /> Turbinado Sugar in Cafe Cubano mhaithaca /Foter About 10 years ago, I lived downstairs from Judy, a Puerto Rican woman with 5 kids the same ages as my kids. Since they all...

Alas –as if I needed yet one more reason to order my coffee from Coffee Kind.  If I did I found one.  There are not many good coffee shops within an hour of my house.  There are a few that...

http://www.coffeebreak2day.com/images/scanomat-top-coffee.jpg" hspace="5" height="299" border="8" align="right" width="325" vspace="5" title="scanomat top coffee machine" alt="scanomat top coffee machine" />Yesterday morning, gadget and gizmo sites around the net were buzzing about this little machine -- the Top coffee brewer from Scanomat. The machine is...

Panamanian coffee is among the most expensive and most sought-after specialty coffee in the world. The Gesha variety, grown in Boquete and Volcán at elevations above 1,500 meters, produces floral, tea-like cups that regularly break auction records. This guide covers Panama's regions, the Gesha story, processing methods, flavor profile, and what makes this origin different.

Here are some of my favorite coffee quotes collected from far and wide.  What are yours? A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos All the coffee in Columbia won’t make me a morning person.  ...

Thanks to my Melitta CBR-10 fluid bed 1000 watt personal coffee roaster, fresh coffee is available to me at a moment's notice in 40 gram increments.  That's right, this thing is designed to hold 50 - 55g green coffee maximum...

Between going through Klatch's Belle much more quickly than I intended and USPS fumbling a bit, I ended up going without coffee at home for four days.I know, talk about first world problems.I made it through the first three days...

Okay so yesterday I had made a post about how much that I was underwhelmed by Velton's Bonsai Blend, the coffee had taste flat, boring, a total let down. This was especially case because I had heard so many good...