Over the past couple of months I’ve had the opportunity to use the Kinu M47 handheld manual grinder. Even though manual grinders are not exactly new, there is a lively market for them. Often, they are far better than their similarly priced electric counterparts as well.
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People have been finding clever and creative ways to use the AeroPress to make Cold Drip coffee. There’s one group of people that are trying to make things a little bit easier with the PUCKPUCK on Kickstarter.
Yesterday, Friday, was the first day of the 2017 edition of the Amsterdam Coffee Festival. The venue, once again, was the Westergasfabriek and the Gashouder in Amsterdam. In this (very) short recap I will show you that not much has changed, but everything seemed to be vastly different at the same time.
The key to making great coffee is to control all the variables. The variable that often has the most variation is tamping. Traditionally tamping was the process of compressing the grounds in the filterbasket which consisted of a few steps. First you press the coffee down, then knock the side of the portafilter to knock stray grounds loose which were then pressed into the coffee puck by tamping again. And for good measure spin the tamper like a spinning top to polish the surface. All of those steps contribute to tamping being one of the least controllable variables.
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A scale is one of the tools most people easily overlook when they’re making coffee. But it really shouldn’t be.
Almost everything you can use to brew coffee uses some sort of filter. Those filters influence the taste of coffee greatly. So what happens when you… don’t use a filter?
So the weather is, finally, warming up and you might be craving a cooler coffee? Meet Cold Brew Coffee!
The last few posts have mostly covered the older brewing methods. To balance that out a little, this post will cover the Aerobie AeroPress. Read More
A fellow coffee addict on Reddit gave me a gentle nudge in the direction of Turkish Coffee. Turkish Coffee is not a specific type of bean but one of the oldest methods of preparation known to mankind. Read More
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