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What Development Time Ratio Is and Why the Minutes After First Crack Decide the Cup

What Development Time Ratio Is and Why the Minu...

Two roasters can buy the same green coffee, roast it to what looks like an identical shade of brown, and hand you two cups that share almost nothing. One is...

What Development Time Ratio Is and Why the Minu...

Two roasters can buy the same green coffee, roast it to what looks like an identical shade of brown, and hand you two cups that share almost nothing. One is...

What Changes Between a Ristretto, a Normale, and a Lungo When the Dose Stays the Same

What Changes Between a Ristretto, a Normale, an...

Order a ristretto and most people assume they are getting something stronger. Order a lungo and they assume it is weaker, a shot with water stretched through it, closer to...

What Changes Between a Ristretto, a Normale, an...

Order a ristretto and most people assume they are getting something stronger. Order a lungo and they assume it is weaker, a shot with water stretched through it, closer to...

What Bypass Brewing Is and Why Adding Water After the Brew Is Not Watering It Down

What Bypass Brewing Is and Why Adding Water Aft...

There is a technique that competition brewers, serious cafes, and every commercial batch brewer in the country use routinely, and that most home brewers have been quietly taught to think...

What Bypass Brewing Is and Why Adding Water Aft...

There is a technique that competition brewers, serious cafes, and every commercial batch brewer in the country use routinely, and that most home brewers have been quietly taught to think...

How a Density Table and an Optical Sorter Quietly Decide Which Beans Reach You

How a Density Table and an Optical Sorter Quiet...

Pour a handful of good coffee into your palm and look at it. The beans are close to the same size, close to the same color, close to the same...

How a Density Table and an Optical Sorter Quiet...

Pour a handful of good coffee into your palm and look at it. The beans are close to the same size, close to the same color, close to the same...

Why Sumatran Coffee Tastes Earthy and What Wet Hulling Does to the Bean

Why Sumatran Coffee Tastes Earthy and What Wet ...

Pour a cup of Sumatran coffee next to a Kenyan and they barely seem related. The Kenyan is bright, juicy, almost sharp. The Sumatran is dark and low and heavy,...

Why Sumatran Coffee Tastes Earthy and What Wet ...

Pour a cup of Sumatran coffee next to a Kenyan and they barely seem related. The Kenyan is bright, juicy, almost sharp. The Sumatran is dark and low and heavy,...

Why Stirring Your Pour Over Is Not Cheating

Why Stirring Your Pour Over Is Not Cheating

There is a quiet rule in home brewing that nobody wrote down and most people follow anyway: you pour, you wait, you do not touch it. Stirring feels like interference....

Why Stirring Your Pour Over Is Not Cheating

There is a quiet rule in home brewing that nobody wrote down and most people follow anyway: you pour, you wait, you do not touch it. Stirring feels like interference....