Pour over coffee is fantastic. If you want to bring out the brightness of a coffee the pour over brew method is where it’s at. Pour overs give you, the brewer, ultimate control. You can control every variable that it takes to make a great cup of coffee. The three major variables are: Coffee to water Water Temperature Contact time(between …

Can you really make Keurig coffee taste better? I know there is a big debate in the coffee world surrounding the keurig. Lots of specialty coffee enthusiasts despise this machine while lots of casual coffee drinkers at the house really enjoy the convenience that the machine brings. Me? I was once a Keurig user. It made a single cup of …

I’m sure you’ve heard of tamping coffee before. If you have heard of it and don’t know why we do it or if you haven’t heard of tamping coffee before and are wondering why we do it. This post should answer any questions about tamping coffee and the reasons we do it backed by a little bit of physics. So …

Learning to taste all of the nuances that coffee has to offer will mean that you have learn to develop your coffee flavor palate. Did you know that coffee is way  more complex than wine? There are over 1,500 aromatic and flavor compounds in coffee. Wine has only 200.( nice try wine.) Learning to describe what you’re tasting is hard …

To know how to pick the best drip coffee maker you need to first be comfortable with the basics to making a good cup of coffee. If you don’t have the proper grind, warm enough water or a coffee bean that your taste buds get along with then you will be disappointed by the results you get Even from the …

Can you reuse coffee grounds?If you’re like me you have a least one filter full of coffee at the end of each day, sometimes two…depending on the day. Overall, in America alone there are 156 billion cups of coffee drank every year! That’s a staggering amount of old coffee grounds. I started felt bad throwing all those grounds away after …