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Yet another study shows that coffee with caffeine helps protect against Alzheimer ’s disease. Can’t have too many of these studies that show our favorite beverage not only tastes good but is also good for us. The latest study, conducted...

ROASTe now offers the Aerobie AeroPress espresso and coffee maker and take it from a convert, this is a fantastic method for brewing our favorite beverage. The first time I saw this device in the wild was in a box...

French press coffee uses full immersion , grounds steep directly in water for 4 minutes before the plunger separates them. The result is a bolder, fuller-bodied cup than drip or pour over because no paper filter removes the oils and fine particles. This guide covers the correct grind, ratio, water temperature, steep time, and 4 mistakes that produce a weak or muddy cup.

You may or may not know of a website called BrewMethods.com, which is a compendium of links to guides for filter coffee (non-espresso). It's great. It's arguably the only source (or intermediary) of coffee knowledge that you'll ever need. Of...

With growing demand for coffee and a coffee farming sector which can’t keep up with the demand, good news comes from Nepal. The World Bank is giving Nepal’s coffee farmers $35,000 to raise production and enhance organic coffee quality. Kriti...

Recently researchers in Spain reported that women with heart disease can safely drink coffee. A research team reviewed studies on coffee consumption and heart disease and disproved a myth some coffee lovers had believed, causing them to avoid coffee. Now...

What people drink tells a lot about their culture. Russians are well known for their love of vodka, and most brands in the US come from there, making Russia synonymous with this alcoholic beverage. This is changing now, as Russian...

/files/u2500/newsltter_iced_coffee.jpg" width="160" height="240" /> Summer begins officially this week. Though some parts of the country have unofficially begun the hot weather, and though Memorial Day begins summer vacation season, summer doesn’t start on the astronomic calendar until Tuesday at precisely...

The next time you hold a cup of coffee in your hand, consider that for every cup of coffee, 1100 times that amount of water was used to produce it. This estimate, from the Water Footprint Network, highlights the need...

Yesterday coffee was a commodity in a foil bag on the grocery store shelf. It came from somewhere far away, but no one really cared about where. You took it home and put the grounds in your percolator, and in...

/files/World-Barista-Championship.KB-teaser2.jpg" alt="2011 US Barista Top 6 - Kevin Bohlin" title="2011 US Barista Top 6 - Kevin Bohlin" align="left" height="213" hspace="5" width="320" />This week has been really busy with sports championships and surprises. The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA playoff...

A Scottish government squabble shows that though informal chats over coffee can be more productive than formal meetings, it’s the meeting tweeting that can cause a beating. Scotland’s Minister Biagi is in hot water for his tweet which mentioned coffee....

Take a five minute coffee break and see for yourself what buying coffee can accomplish. We’re all partners in making part of the world a better place, just by enjoying great organic coffee. A recent video portrays the upgrading of...

Such is the love of coffee fans for their favorite hot beverage. The statement in the title represents the feelings of many coffee lovers when rising coffee prices bump up against stretched budgets. Jeremiah McWilliams interviewed several people recently and...

With so much seasonal coffee content related to cold brewing methods, I thought my questions about cold pulled espresso would be covered soon.  Alas, my wait continues and now I must take matters in to my own hands and discover...

The foodists are buzzing about the new popcorn that keeps movie audiences awake. Office workers snack on it to keep their energy up in the afternoon. Moms snack on it keep up with the kids, who surely aren’t allowed any....

The list of diseases for which healing is linked to coffee consumption grows almost daily. A press release just announced a new study which showed that coffee-drinking patients receiving Hepatitis C fighting drugs were twice as likely to benefit from...

There’s gold in those coffee grounds! We’ll never look at them the same again. We’ve discussed the ways to recycle coffee grounds before, primarily in compost and building up the soil. Now, because scientists are finding little critters that eat...

The WBC signature drink is where barista competitors go beyond espresso. The most memorable routines use every part of the coffee cherry: cascara, mucilage, coffee flowers, and the bean itself.

Here we go again: New statistics and new lists of all the myriad of things that cause cancer, or more correctly, things that are linked to cancer, are making the news. Cell phones and coffee are two of the additions...

This week a report on a study by Australia’s La Trobe University stated that they found that coffee and stress lead people to hallucinate. It’s not that they saw dancing pink elephants on the office water cooler, but it was...