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Aeropress, the inverted Method

So I have been playing with for a little since I got it and toying around with some of the different method for using it. One of the thing I tried with it was the inverted method.Basically, you are inverting...

how to make a bottomless portafilter

This is intended as a tutorial for those who want to make themselves a bottomless portafilter out of a spare portafilter that they have lying around. My earlier entry on them prompted a question about how to do it, so...

Leftover Coffee

We make a full pot of coffee every morning and have found that we don't always use it all. I hate to be wasteful, so I save our leftover coffee in the fridge to make iced coffee later that day...

Cup Summit #3 – Coffee Competitors Meet To Solve Cup Dilemma

It seems the fast food and takeout food industries are serious about solving the problem of billions of cups ending up in landfills. So serious are they that they just concluded Cup Summit #3, during which leading industry competitors met...

The first time...

I still remember the first time I'd pulled a shot of espresso at home. The whole point of having an espresso machine to begin with was to recreate a caramel macchiato from Starbucks. My friend, who was a Starbucks employee at the time, had...

Aeropress first impression

So today I just got the much hyped aeropress and I'm excited about trying it out and compare it to other brewing methods. I got the aeropress from Amazon for pretty much nothing due to having point awards for Amazon...

My fantastic coffee voyage (part 3)...

Apparently, I was incorrect in saying that my next stop was the Mainline Coffee Stand in my previous post (it's been edited out). As it turns out, its called the High Line Coffee Stand located above Chelsea Market. Which makes...

chopped portafilters

What is a chopped or bottomless portafilter? It is one where someone quite literally cuts out the bottom of the portafilter so that the coffee comes out of the basket and falls straight down into the cup. This may seem...

Coffee Subscription: How It Works and What to Look For

A coffee subscription delivers fresh-roasted whole bean coffee to your door on a schedule you control. The key difference from grocery store coffee is freshness , subscription coffee ships within days of roasting, while grocery beans can sit in a warehouse for months before you open them. This guide covers how coffee subscriptions work, what separates good ones from bad ones, and what the freshness math actually looks like.

Another great coffee - Blue Jaguar

Today I am drinking Blue Jaguar from Red Bird espresso in Montana. It is a great blend. It is a blend built around Brazil Daterra Sweet Blue beans. My very first shot of it was quite good and I figured...

Kenyan Coffee Losing Out to Developers

Coffee production in Kenya is facing a major challenge brought on by increase in prosperity in this African nation. As citizens become upwardly mobile, they have more money for housing and are pushing a demand for urban homes. Though coffee...

tampers - how important are they?

When looking at espresso gear it makes sense to ask where money spent contributes to better espresso and when it does not. The tamper is a place where many people focus too much of the energy and money. There are...

My fantastic coffee voyage (part 1)...

I took a trip up to New York over this past weekend to experience all of its coffee splendor. I should rephrase- I went to Manhattan to experience all of its coffee splendor. As much as I would have liked...

Distribution is one of the keys to great espresso

One of the easiest things to overlook for a new barista is the importance of the distribution of the coffee. It is essential for great espresso to have the coffee in the portafilter basket fairly evenly distributed. When you think...

Coffee In, Dairy Out, Per Harvard

Nutrition guides, they are a changing, and for the new school year, a Canadian news-site has published a comparison of leading guidelines. The guide from Harvard School of Public Health, released Wednesday, started it all, and it was quickly vetted...

What is espresso and what to shoot for when you first start pulling shots

I suppose any primer on making espresso should start at the beginning with the question – “what is espresso?” The question seems like it should be uncontroversial and easy to answer, but like anything it does have shades of grey....

The cheapest way into espresso – the machine continued

One comment asked if I was opposed to used machines in my last post and I realized that my reply to that was too long to fin in as a comment, so it turned into a second blog post. When...

temperature control and taste

Coffee should never be made at the temperature of boiling water (212) – it is best at lower temperatures. This turns out to be a very important variable in making coffee. If espresso is brewed at too high a temperature...

Costa Rican Coffee Solves Identity Crisis

Coffee from Costa Rica just received a self-identity seal that sets it apart from ordinary coffee, as it lifts it to the category of “prestige” coffee. The seal, in the form of a geographic identity, will certify that the coffee...

Piao - Right in the Kisser!

Once again I went thrifting and struck another vein of fools gold. The name on this little manual drip brewer reminds me of what Jackie Gleeson or Archie Bunker used to say - I can not recall which angry stereotype...

the basic types of espresso machines

There are a number of ways to make espresso. The cheapest methods usually are called espresso machines, but technically do not make espresso as they use steam to produce coffee. These are most of the machines that cost less than...

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