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Brew Methods: the new brewing how-to collective

James Hoffmann (@JimSeven on Twitter), who was the World Barista Champion in 2007 and the UK Barista Champion in 2006 and 2007, has posted at his blog JimSeven about a new site called Brew Methods that is very promising.  It’s a site collecting all of the videos and tutorials around the Web for each method [...]

Pursue great coffee and don’t settle for less

Daniel at Daniel’s World of Coffee posted a review on the Zoka coffee shop in Kirkland, Washington in the Seattle area.  On first look, I was about to be unimpressed because it’s another coffee shop in the Seattle area that’s making good coffee, but something about this review hit me differently.  What he’s really trying [...]

Sweet Maria’s studies steep time & brew strength for cupping

I always say that making good coffee is just chemistry.  If you don’t believe that, check out this video from Sweet Maria’s.  They’re analyzing the brew strength of light roasts versus dark roasts in cupping and determine that they may need to actually grind light roast differently and also possibly adjust the steep time of [...]

Coffee tutorials and taste tests thanks to the St. Petersburg Times

The St. Petersburg Times had a day of coffee features yesterday, and it ended up producing some pretty informational articles.
First was an article about the lingo of coffee tasting. Tasting coffee in a group setting — called cupping — can be somewhat intimidating, but I find that it’s one of my favorite ways to [...]

How to prepare Turkish coffee

Two coffees I have never had and want to try are Cuban coffee and Turkish coffee. Thanks to CoffeeTweet, today I found several videos on YouTube about how to prepare Turkish coffee. The video below, “How To Make The Perfect Cup of Turkish Coffee”, is a nice short and sweet primer on the [...]

Clover intro video on YouTube

I found this introductory video to the Clover coffee machine at The Coffee Ethic’s fancy new website. The video is produced by Wired, and it’s nicely done. It was created back in summer of 2008, so some of the news is slightly outdated, but it still provides a great overview of what sets [...]

Coffee video: Behmor coffee roaster in action

As you may know, I bought a Behmor 1600 around Christmas.  Thereafter, in a deal with my wife, I took a few months to clean out my John Deere room & workshop so I could roast down there, but I agreed to not roast until it was clean.  After it was sufficiently clean, I pulled [...]

Any interest in a 417Coffee meetup?

Recently I have had two different parties here in 417land suggest that I coordinate a meetup of people involved or interested in homeroasting coffee or simply the finer points of roasting and brewing coffee well.  I’ve been noticing more and more conversation going on about coffee in general, and it seems that the specialty coffee [...]

Video intros to cupping coffee

“Cupping” is  a term used to describe the process of sampling a small amount of coffee to get a sense of its aroma and flavor.  Cupping is to coffee as tasting is to wine.
If you dive into the world of specialty coffees, you’ll hear the word “cupping” quite a bit because this is how those [...]

Latte help from champion barista Heather Perry

Champion barista Heather Perry teaches how to make a latte at home, and if you don’t have an espresso machine, she also teaches you how to make a similar coffee drink using a moka pot. Thanks to the people at GotMilk.com and KlatchRoasting.com, as well as the lead to this video from @PTsJeff [...]