chemicallyimbalanced — is this the world’s most compact quality coffee travel kit? this blog is positing the idea here, publicly, with full assurance that someone will come along to prove us wrong. the mini iron, of course, is so that the vest will be PERFECTLY PRESSED WHILE POURING. - porlex mini. - kantan drippers. -...
shotzombies — his coffee makes you feel noticeably better than anything else you’ll find. You’ll never go back to Starbucks again. These beans are meant for drinking black or best of all, for making Bulletproof Coffee with grass fed butter. What? Grass fed butter? The beans are roasted in small batches by the #1...
jimseven — This post is a follow up to the poll I posted a little while ago. I was wondering if my own thinking about brew methods mirrored others, or whether they were different. I admit it was something of a flawed poll, but I wanted to use it as a stepping...
jimseven — I was thinking about this the other day, and was wondering what other people think. I’ve seen each of the opinions out there, but I’m curious about the distribution of opinion amongst those who read this blog. I’ll post my own thoughts ont this up with the discussion of the...
jimseven — So yesterday I posted up a little graph to see if people could identify it. It was a tricky one, and I was pleased when Kevin Cuddeback, CEO of Gimme! Coffee, chimed in with the correct answer. What the graph represents is the rate of increase of the bean mass...
jimseven — There was a most unusual article today in the Telegraph that you can view here. I’m probably going to do myself no favours by picking up on a few problems with the article, but also in the piece there are some really important points that probably require a longer post...
jimseven — A little bit of fun. All you have to do is identify what this graph is charting out. The x and y scales are linear. It has something to do with coffee. The first person to identify it will get a bag of tasty, tasty coffee sent to them from...
jimseven — Back in September of last year I was thinking a bit about the words we use when we describe coffee. Out of interest I went to a few US roaster’s websites and copied all their coffee descriptions into a text document and ran it through wordle. I then went to Starbucks...
jimseven — There have been two great posts from Coffee and Conservation recently, detailing Julie Craves’ year of consumption. “I buy a lot of really high-quality coffee. The average price per pound (not including shipping) this year was $22. The big outlier was a half-pound of Finca La Valentina Geisha from PT’s Coffee,...
flyingthud.wordpress — I think my favorite vessel for drinking brewed coffee is glass. I’m still looking for the perfect one, but I like when they only hold a few ounces. There’s something about how it celebrates the colors of the brew, and as my friend Geoff said at work, it makes you...
jimseven — Whoever is doing the PR work for the position of production roaster deserves a bonus. I can’t think of another position that is as widely coveted within our industry. Roasting seems so creative, so romantic, so artful. We talk about hand roasting, or small batch roasting, or emphasise the craft...
jimseven — Most things in coffee get a little easier the more you do them. Dosing consistently, understanding grind adjustment, understanding the taste of an espresso extraction, tamping simply and properly, the list goes on… One thing that doesn’t get much easier is dealing with the build up of unpleasant flavours in...
shotzombies — NewsWorks calls this “the next big thing for caffeine aficionados” but I think ReAnimator is dropping the ball here. If James Hoffmann’s 2012 prediction for batch brewers comes true, this may be a good example of why. [Via NewsWorks]
shotzombies — NewsWorks calls this “the next big thing for caffeine aficionados” but I think ReAnimator is dropping the ball here. If James Hoffmann’s 2012 prediction for batch brewers comes true, this may be a good example of why. [Via NewsWorks]