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CreativeMornings Oslo - Food with Tim Wendelboe

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:18:33 +1000

CreativeMornings Oslo - Food with Tim Wendelboe:

How to brew a great cup of coffee.

Starting from the beginning…

Le Cool's (Short) Guide To Coffee Culture

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:38:07 +1000

Le Cool's (Short) Guide To Coffee Culture:

A short video about coffee in Dublin.

Kew Gardens - Beyond the Gardens - The Forgotten Home of Coffee - YouTube

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:32:29 +1000

Kew Gardens - Beyond the Gardens - The Forgotten Home of Coffee - YouTube:

via @PeterGuiliano

"Well, I’m really making it for everyone. Well, then go ahead and stop because you’ve already..."

Fri, 31 May 2013 16:08:47 +1000

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Well, I’m really making it for everyone.

Well, then go ahead and stop because you’ve already lost.

“Everyone” isn’t an audience. “Everyone” is a byproduct of an incredibly successful thing that was made for a far more specific bunch of people. Don’t ever make something for “Everyone” make it for someone. And make that person love it.

”

- Dan Sinker (via seanbonner)

“Pods Vs Specialty” is an argument about control. Control over where the coffee comes from, whose...

Fri, 31 May 2013 14:51:53 +1000

“Pods Vs Specialty” is an argument about control. Control over where the coffee comes from, whose roasting it, and how it’s brewed.

If you care about this control, then pods wont satisfy. If you don’t care about control, then pods are, as they say, “fine”.

And high quality is really only achieveable when these steps are known and able to be controlled and manipulated.

This is a picture of 10g of coffee ground coarsely and then...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:41:51 +1000

This is a picture of 10g of coffee ground coarsely and then sifted into 3 sizes.

It shows the dramatic difference in particle size. Now it might illustrate the state of the burrs, and some grinders are better than others, but I wanted to show it because it illustrates the unevenness of grinding. And it’s quite shocking I think!!

It really brought home to me how an extraction percentage is not a true value but an average. That is, take an ext% reading of 18%, it’s not that we’ve extracted 18% from each particle (we may not have extracted 18% from any!). We’ve extracted different amounts from each. From some it may be 20%, from others 13%, and from others still upwards of 27%!! All these added together and averaged give us the extraction yield. In this case: 18%.

Ben Kaminsky: Barista vs. Volumetrics

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:07:16 +1100

Ben Kaminsky: Barista vs. Volumetrics:

How volumetrics and flow meters can produce very consistent espresso…

: Travel Diaries - Q and A with Chris Owens

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:26:36 +1100

: Travel Diaries - Q and A with Chris Owens:

handsomecoffee:

Here’s one from David Boyle. This one just missed twitter’s 140 character limit so we’re posting Chris’s response here.

David Boyle (@DaveedBoyle)

3/5/13, 11:12 PM

@HandsomeRoaster from ur travel exp, what is the biggest need for getn coffee farmers out of poverty? …

Mortgaging our values by @nickcho

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:02:19 +1100

Mortgaging our values by @nickcho:

“Capitalism is a great thing, except when it’s not so great.”

undertarker-barista: malunamaimoone: People of specialty -...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:41:32 +1100

undertarker-barista:

malunamaimoone:

People of specialty - SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America)

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Coffee's a Prison

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:47:59 +1100

Imagine a coffee bean as a badly built prison. It’s prisoners are coffees flavour and aromatics.

There are cracks and holes everywhere from which these prisoners can escape. But kept standing (i.e. unground) it slows the prisoners escape path and keeps the majority locked up.

Knock it down (i.e. grind it) and we’re essentially knocking down the prison walls. In no time the prisoners escape and we’re left with rubble. And rubble doesn’t taste so good.

Lesson learnt for manual brewing: Nail the technique!!! No amount amount of tinkering with dose...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:17:20 +1100

Lesson learnt for manual brewing:

Nail the technique!!!

No amount amount of tinkering with dose or grind size will yield consistent results without a solid, repeatable and consistent technique.

(Granted this could be said of any other variable, however technique, I think, is often overlooked).

Approaches to Brewing and My Neglect of Espresso

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:57:03 +1100

Approaches to Brewing and My Neglect of Espresso

Dymaxion.: The rarest fruit in Indonesia, and how it changed the way I talk about coffee.

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:59:42 +1100

Dymaxion.: The rarest fruit in Indonesia, and how it changed the way I talk about coffee.:

petergiuliano:

The fruit stands of Indonesia are glorious. On the islands of Java and Sumatra, these temples to tropical fruit overflow with all types of strange and delicious delicacies: the impossibly delicious manggis, buah naga (dragon fruit) lengkeng (dragon’s eyeball fruit), and the giant, intimidating…

Bitter Press: Raw Product vs. Unfinished Product vs. Finished Product

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:08:48 +1100

Bitter Press: Raw Product vs. Unfinished Product vs. Finished Product:

bitterpress:

One of the most difficult things we have to work with in the coffee industry is the fact that coffee isn’t a finished product until it’s brewed. When examining the classification in most grocery stores, coffee falls under the Specialty department, but it’s not often that it follows the same path….

Music and Coffee

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:07:11 +1100

Music and Coffee:

Lessons from the music industry?

We Are But A Part

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:36:00 +1100

We Are But A Part:

Further musings on the other site…

drawcoffee: Really great project I worked on with Has Bean...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:53:04 +1100

drawcoffee:

Really great project I worked on with Has Bean Coffee out of England. Three different varietals of coffee, grown on the same farm in Nicaragua, and their unique characteristics and differences. Fascinating.

Kopi Luwak Exploitation: Is The Mainstream Media Catching On?

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:33:29 +1100

Kopi Luwak Exploitation: Is The Mainstream Media Catching On?:

From Sprudge. Do read this.

Why Buying Hot Chips Reminded me of Getting a Coffee

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:06:58 +1100

Why Buying Hot Chips Reminded me of Getting a Coffee