Coffee Notes

Coffee is delicious. It’s a great way to start your morning. But popular thinking has been all over the place about whether or not it is good for you. Recently a study involving almost 111,000 participants over 9 years, showed “Coffee was significantly associated with a reduction of cardiovascular diseases.” The study revealed one cup…

Espresso… what is it? Is it a bean? Is it a roast? a drink? a Brewing method? A grind? The answer… It is an extraction method (a fancy word for “brewing”). Espresso made by using a finely ground, dark roast coffee bean (generally, but no one is the boss of you) then hot water is…

Taking a page right out of Prince’s playbook, we are pulling a rename. So here’s the deal, the organic espresso we buy…. is espresso that is organic. So when we receive it, it is certified organic. Cool. But we are not a certified organic coffee roastery, which means once we roast the beans, even though…

Do you know what beverage I love more than coffee? Iced Coffee. So delicious. Seriously, the best part of sunshine is ice-cold coffee. Specifically cold brew coffee. I started drinking cold brew coffee almost 13 years ago. I started using this “fancy” Toddy Cold Brew System, but over the years different parts broke and I…

Turn and face the strange….Thank you David Bowie. We gotta tell you something…. it might be hard to hear, so I’m just gonna tell it to you straight. Starting next week we are rolling out new bags. They are going to look a lot like our old bags except for a few things. First, we…

We strongly believe that making coffee the way you like it, is the best way to make coffee. Drinking coffee is a personal preference. But if you feel like your homebrew could stand some improvement check out this article. It’s great because it addresses several specific methods with tips to improve on each: french press,…