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AeroPress Coffee Guide: How to Brew for Different Flavor Profiles
What does your morning coffee taste like? With the AeroPress, that depends on your mood. One of the greatest things about this iconic brewing …
How Does Fermentation Affect Coffee Flavour Development?
In 2015, Sasa Sestic won the World Barista Championship with a coffee that had been washed carbonic macerated, an innovative fermentation method. Two years …
Where Is The Coffee Industry Going Next? Insights From WOC 2017
World of Coffee (WOC) 2017: 3 days, 5 coffee championships, 11 awards, hundreds of stalls, and some of the leading figures in the coffee …
What Are The Main Challenges Faced by Coffee Producers?
Being a coffee producer means living a life of uncertainty. While measures can be taken to improve quality and therefore prices, the truth is …
Why Are Some Coffees Sweeter Than Others?
Bitter coffee? That’s a thing of the past. Now, specialty professionals and consumers alike want their morning coffee to have a hint of sweetness …
6 Common Roast Defects & How to Recognise Them
Nobody achieves the perfect roast the first time, or the second time, or even the tenth time. It requires expertise and more than a …
The Specialty Shops Who Prefer Batch Brewers to a V60
Go into some coffee shops and ask for V60 or Chemex, and they’ll politely say no. They don’t offer them, but they do have …
Why You Should Consider Offering Single Shots
Double shots are so common in specialty coffee, that many cafés have removed the option by using double baskets with naked portafilters. But I …
Producer Insight: Organic Coffee Farming in Guatemala
We’re a small coffee farm in Guatemala: there are only seven of us, all in the same multi-generational family. Las Delicias, our 11-hectare farm, …
Coffee Skills: The Daily Routines of a Specialty Barista
Want to be the best barista you can be? A few weeks ago I wrote about the need to find your passion, to further your …
