The beverage we adore, in its most basic form, is the fusion of meticulously ground coffee beans with water. What distinguishes a sweet, balanced, and complex coffee from a bitter or acidic one lies in two fundamental pillars:…
…aside from the fact that it tastes great! Think about it: Even the busiest of specialty coffee lovers, in their hectic schedules, have one or two moments a day when they just stop and just let themselves…
"Look! It's a good espresso machine! The coffee here should be good!" So here comes the first and my favorite myth about specialty coffee shops. The machine. How many times have I heard, while working as a barista,…
What is the right water for making coffee? What water are you using? Lately, I've been facing a lot of coffee superstitions, or beliefs of some kind, and water-related issues for…
…is there really a significant difference between them, or is dividing roasts this way more of a remnant of the past? I was trying to buy coffee from a Spanish roaster this morning, and I found that division again. What…
Call it what you will: betraying the ideals of the specialty coffee community, a lack of passion, just a general bad temper, but I'll be blatantly honest with you (as I've always been doing here, anyway). It simply mesmerizes me HOW…
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was Bad Advice, basically reverse psychology for kids :), where the author gave you ideas on how to do the craziest things that would annoy your parents the most: for example,…
Processed with VSCO with f1 preset When I entered the world of coffee, and I wouldn't say the world of specialty coffee, because it was, as I see it now, low-quality coffee – when I entered, it wasn't…
dav I sat down with the idea of writing about one thing, and ended up thinking about something else :) I've been thinking a lot about cream these past few days: does the color really matter? Do the lines matter? I mean, we all know something about…
…I mean, I gave up. I really tried, I swear. Honestly, I feel like I'm the last barista on Earth who finally started using only double portafilters, while all the other guys already did…
