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Just taste it!

Taste is both a simple and a complex thing. It is something we do every day without thinking and yet, as with most things, as we learn more about t...

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Tasting pour-over coffee at different points of extraction

A fun exercise where you divide the coffee you are brewing into three glasses at certain parts of the brewing process so you capture the start, mid...

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How Do I Start Brewing Coffee at Home?

Coffee can be intimidating, especially due to the vocabulary that is commonplace in the speciality coffee industry. I do not think coffee should se...

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How to Shake Up Your Aeropress Recipe

Back when I got my Aeropress, I spent a few days finding a recipe that I liked. I stuck with that recipe for weeks because it worked and I was glad...

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Brewing with the Aeropress in the Park

Some argue that coffee tastes next level when drunk outside - home brewer James Gallagher experiments.

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Make cold brew at home with NO fancy equipment

As the weather warms up, our thoughts are turning to cold coffee. Here, our guest blogger James shares some tips for Cold Brewing at home without h...

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Cold Coffees - Flash Brew vs Cold Brew

Iced lattes are great, but there’s a few reasons you should give other iced coffees a try. Here's a couple of other ways of making cold coffee dri...

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Complex vs Mellow: choose your coffee

Why do we use the words we do in specialty coffee? How do the words we use impact our experience of flavour? How useful are flavour descriptions to...

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How to Read a Coffee Label

Bags of speciality coffee and online descriptions of coffee can contain a lot of jargon. You may be looking at a coffee and wonder: what does all o...

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Five Ways to Make Coffee at Home

Different brewing methods produce a different taste in the final cup and learning a new method of brewing coffee can be a lot of fun, there's somet...

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Beginner's Intro to Grinding Coffee

Grinding coffee yourself offers two main advantages: added freshness (and thus better flavour), and the ability to mess around with grind settings....

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Comparing the Kalita Wave and the V60

The V60 and Kalita Wave are both excellent pour over brewing devices - but which is best for a beginner who is just starting to experiment with br...