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What the One-Way Valve on a Coffee Bag Is Actually Doing While It Sits on Your Shelf

What the One-Way Valve on a Coffee Bag Is Actua...

Pick up almost any bag of quality coffee and you will find a small round plastic disc somewhere on the front or side. Most people never think about it. Some...

What the One-Way Valve on a Coffee Bag Is Actua...

Pick up almost any bag of quality coffee and you will find a small round plastic disc somewhere on the front or side. Most people never think about it. Some...

What Terroir Means for Coffee and Why the Same Varietal Tastes Different From Farm to Farm

What Terroir Means for Coffee and Why the Same ...

Wine drinkers have talked about terroir for centuries. The idea that a wine tastes like the specific place it came from, that the soil, the climate, the altitude, and the...

What Terroir Means for Coffee and Why the Same ...

Wine drinkers have talked about terroir for centuries. The idea that a wine tastes like the specific place it came from, that the soil, the climate, the altitude, and the...

What Extraction Yield Really Tells You About the Coffee in Your Cup

What Extraction Yield Really Tells You About th...

There is a term that gets thrown around in serious coffee circles that sounds intimidating but explains almost everything about why your coffee tastes the way it does. Extraction yield....

What Extraction Yield Really Tells You About th...

There is a term that gets thrown around in serious coffee circles that sounds intimidating but explains almost everything about why your coffee tastes the way it does. Extraction yield....

What Channeling Is and Why It Quietly Ruins Otherwise Good Espresso Shots

What Channeling Is and Why It Quietly Ruins Oth...

You did everything right. Fresh beans, a good grind, a clean machine. You pulled the shot and it looked fine pouring into the cup. But when you tasted it, something...

What Channeling Is and Why It Quietly Ruins Oth...

You did everything right. Fresh beans, a good grind, a clean machine. You pulled the shot and it looked fine pouring into the cup. But when you tasted it, something...

What Bourbon, Typica, and Caturra Actually Taste Like and Why Varietal Matters as Much as Origin

What Bourbon, Typica, and Caturra Actually Tast...

When people talk about coffee, they almost always talk about where it came from. Ethiopian, Colombian, Guatemalan. Origin gets all the attention. But there is another layer that shapes flavor...

What Bourbon, Typica, and Caturra Actually Tast...

When people talk about coffee, they almost always talk about where it came from. Ethiopian, Colombian, Guatemalan. Origin gets all the attention. But there is another layer that shapes flavor...

What a Microlot Actually Is and Why Roasters Pay More for One Patch of a Single Farm

What a Microlot Actually Is and Why Roasters Pa...

You may have seen the word on a bag of coffee and wondered what it meant, or why the price was higher than usual. Microlot. It sounds like marketing, another...

What a Microlot Actually Is and Why Roasters Pa...

You may have seen the word on a bag of coffee and wondered what it meant, or why the price was higher than usual. Microlot. It sounds like marketing, another...