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Dialing In Coffee by Taste
Whether you’re checking quality control of a roast, brewing a pour-over for customers, or ensuring espresso shots pull correctly, identifying if a coffee is properly dialed-in is important. Dialing in allows us to unlock our coffee’s potential and present it at its highest quality by brewing an excellent cup that highlights all attributes of the… Read More
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Roasters Brew Box Recipes: A dialogue between the barista and roaster
Our Roaster’s Brew Box is a sensory development tool that’s built to help roasters learn more about brewing and share roasting technique with baristas and home brewers. In the newest edition, the Colombia Manos Juntas Brew Box, we had an opportunity to pull back the curtain and show how changes to the end of the… Read More
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Commercial Batch Brewer Tips and Best Practices
A commercial batch brewer is a useful tool in either your roastery or cafe for serving large volumes of drip coffee. It’s also capable of much more, and understanding programmable settings can allow roasters and brewers to better control the quality of their coffee. In this post, we’ll review the general settings of a batch… Read More
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How Your Filter Shape Changes the Flavor of Your Coffee
There are a lot of options to make when you brew coffee by hand, including the shape of the brewer. Pour-over brewers can have either a semi-conical shape, which looks like a funnel. Another option is a flat-bottom brewer, which has a wider base and is featured on many commercial brewers. Coffee professionals might argue… Read More
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Choosing the Right Grind Size for your Brew Method
Moving forward from the principles we laid out in last week’s blog post about grind size, we know why our grind size is important. Now, we need to brew all of this delicious coffee we’re beginning to understand better. One of the most important parts of sharing a coffee is choosing how you brew it. … Read More
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Why Is Grind Size Important?
Why is grind size important? Our grind size plays a vital role in how we brew coffee and significantly impacts the flavors we extract. Being able to adjust our grind size allows us to improve the quality of our cup, ensure that we can repeat the brew, experiment with extraction, create recipes, and more. Burr… Read More
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Drink More Decaf!
Throughout my many years of brewing, serving, roasting, and teaching people about coffee, one of the most frequent and derisive conversations I have had is about decaf. There’s an old-school attitude among coffee drinkers that decaf is a waste of time. “Death Before Decaf!” they chant. Even decaf drinkers themselves will admit that the brew… Read More
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Flash Brew Iced Coffee
What is flash brew? Flash iced brew coffee is simple. Take the full amount of water you would use in a hot brew and split it in half, replace half of that water by weight with ice. Then, extract over the ice. This melts the ice and rapidly dilutes the coffee, without that dilution the… Read More