Does ‘Specialty Coffee’ have an image problem?
The video above (which I find funny, I don’t know about you) has been making the rounds today. It’s similar in tone to an older video, below, that makes fun of customers with similar attitudes. Of course the videos aren’t perfect representations – the majority of quality focused cafes are actually trying to serve a...
Brewing with Different Waters @ Lilla Kafferosteriet
Lilla Kafferosteriet, a cafe and roastery in Malmö, hosts occasional cuppings on Sunday afternoons. I’m terrible at keeping up with the Swedish coffee scene (I don’t speak Swedish) and would never have known about these, but luckily Oscar from Portafilth.com keeps me in tune with where the coffee geek action is happening in Malmö. Last...
Taste testing Coava’s Aeropress filter
Portland based Coava Coffee Roasters must be making a killing with their new Kone and Disk metal filters for the Chemex and Aeropress. Both of them seem to be spreading around the world, judging by all the twitter reports and blog coverage. Last week I spent a morning over at Solde Kafferosteri with Dan and...
Three rules of thumb for avoiding bad coffee in Seoul, Korea
In Korea I tried a lot of cafes, and drank a lot of bad coffee on the way to finding the great cafes that I’ve written about here. Coffee is expensive (I’ve paid as much as $15 for a bad cup of coffee in Seoul), so after a while I started avoiding places with signs...
Hario V60 How-to Video
I liked this video. I make coffee every day in my office, and lately I’ve been using the V60. I generally use around 18-22g of coffee and pour ~300ml to yield 250ml of brewed coffee (~8oz). I had been grinding fine and trying to mimic the pour-wait-pour-wait style I’ve often seen used with Melitta pourovers,...
Alton Brown – Espresso on Good Eats
I love Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats,’ and I just found an episode on espresso that really covers a lot of the basics and some history. Coffee geeks might take issue with a few points and technique (especially the milk frothing, which is terrible), but it’s a great introduction for anyone interested in learning a bit...
Instant Coffee Eclipses Rice Consumption
“Rice has long topped local food retailers’ best-selling list, but not this year. The country’s traditional staple lost its place for the first time in years, bumped by none other than instant coffee.” Korea Times article here. Instant coffee is everywhere in Korea, I’ve never been in an office or meeting without it, even though...
Coffee Therapy
“A psychology professor at Yale University found that holding a hot cup of coffee leads people to judge a stranger to be a warmer person, in terms of such traits as generosity and kindness, compared with a group of people who held a cup of iced coffee.” Iced coffee drinkers must lead depressing lives. Stick...
Brewmethods.com
“Brew Methods is designed with one thing in mind: To provide anyone and everyone with access to the best coffee brewing guides in the entire universe.” Want your coffee to taste better? Have a look at brewmethods.com. It’s a nice little resource for novices and curious folk alike. Check it out, you might learn something...
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