Quite a strong caffeine hit and this course ground coffee actually worked well in our espresso maker. The coffee is a medium dark roast with added spices, which actually worked really well. A hint of cinnamon evoked memories of a winter evening by the fire to escape from a cold day. Flavour notes: Warm spiced […]
Author: Waynne
I have been researching and writing about coffee for the last 15 years. I have attended and graduated various Barista courses and classes, and spent much time with coffee aficionados and professionals. I live and work in the UK as a full time journalist and writer for several popular online publications with a daily readership of over 10000 people. I love coffee and want to share this passion with the world with my aim to rid the world of bad coffee.
We are often asked what makes a perfect espresso? There is no simple answer, as this is subjective and different people have different criteria when choosing an espresso shot.
This coffee originated in Korea and has recently received much social media exposure. As the world enters lockdown and people have time on their hands and miss out on going to the local coffee shops they are presumably looking to create unique coffee based drinks at home.
How the roast type (darkness) affects your coffee taste? Coffee consumers are varied, as are their tastes. And wouldn’t it be a boring world if we were all the same. By experimenting with roasting coffee beans for different duration’s and temperatures, speciality brewers have been able to offer to these varying tastes. Coffee roasting has […]
If you want to keep your machine in top condition the single most important thing you can do is descale it regularly. When water is heated up the solid particles in the water separate and form over the heating element and inside the coffee maker. In hard water areas this can happen at an alarmingly […]
How To Froth Milk For Coffee Like Cappuccino And Flat White Frothing milk is key to making many coffee drinks such as cappuccino, espresso, mocha, Americano, Latte, Macchiato, Flat White and others. If you’re young, enthusiastic about coffee and do not have the equipment for making these more complex and sophisticated kinds of coffees and […]
All You Need To Know About Roasting Coffee Roasting coffee is a somewhat chemical process that transforms the properties of the green, fresh coffee beans into the roasted coffee products we are all familiar with.
Coffee Roasting Process If this is your first attempt at roasting coffee, then this post is definitely for you. In this section, we will give a detailed step-by-step guide on how to effectively roast your coffee beans for great tasting coffee. Roasting coffee at home can be as fun and easy as you want it […]
If you live in a hard water area it is a good idea to descale your espresso maker frequently as the build up can eventually cause a blockage and descaling becomes incredibly hard. A scaled machine makes poor coffee as flow and pressure are affected and in bad cases the heating element is almost ineffective.
When choosing a pod coffee maker there are so many to choose from. We would recommend taking a look at the various types of pods on offer and then choosing a machine based on that. Personally we will always choose a ground coffee maker as there is more choice and you have great control over […]
Every part of the world has their own way of brewing coffee. Something I found very interesting is that in regions that are world renowned for their coffee quality, the bulk of people drink coffee in very “primitive” ways. Most of the following are simply coffee grounds added to simmering or hot water and poured […]
A simple coffee using finely ground beans and prepared in a traditional stove top method is quite easy to make. Use a stove top pan or Briki, and finely ground coffee. For our Greek coffee we prefer to use Brazilian Santos or Java beans. Typically Arabica grown in the milder lower part of the coffee […]
A few weeks ago I found myself the proud owner of a milk allergy. I never realized how much it limited my choice when it comes to coffee leaving me with an Americano or espresso. I really like my Flat whites and Cortados, and sadly due to the amount of milk in them I am […]
Here are 10 amazing things you probably didn’t know about coffee! Enjoy these 10 facts. If you can remember them and tell your friends you’ll be well on the way to being a coffee nerd! We have many things to thank Coffee for from webcams, to health benefits.
In the coffee world, a set of revolutionary technological advancements, when coupled together, declare a new “wave,” or point at which coffee became drastically more accessible than it was beforehand, or a shift in popular demand was significant enough to warrant specialty types of coffee. Currently, there are three waves of coffee advancements that are […]
The world loves coffee, so much so, that over 2 billion cups are consumed per day. In the United States and United Kingdom, overall coffee consumption has increased dramatically in the past 10 years, and show no signs of stopping. In the United States, the daily consumption of espresso based beverages has tripled since 2008, […]
Being able to pull perfect espresso shots is a skill every barista needs, but in order to pull such shots, one must perfect the art of tamping ground coffee in the portafilter. Note that this article is mainly for those not using super-automatic espresso machines that do the grinding, tamping, and pulling, all in one […]
While many coffee aficionados tend to stay away from instant coffee, it make up around 13% of all coffee consumed. And with there being over 100 million daily coffee drinkers in the United States alone, that 13% is quite substantial. Though, when comparing instant coffee to freshly ground and brewed coffee, there are tons of […]
First invented in the 1770’s in Britain, instant coffee wasn’t able to easily be produced in mass quantities until much later in 1910, when the instant coffee business started to really take off. There are two main ways that instant coffee is produced, the first uses dry hot air to absorb the moisture in the […]
The Truth about “Naturally Decaffeinated Coffee” Many brands of coffee promote their decaf as ‘Naturally Decaffeinated’. This might conjure up images of obliging coffee plants producing caffeine free beans or coffee producers tempting the caffeine out of the coffee beans with videos of baby pandas sneezing. How to decaffeinate coffee The truth has rather more […]
Brewing coffee nowadays is about as easy it gets, with machines able to brew and pull espresso shots just by inserting a pod and pushing a button. But how do these pod espresso machines compare to more traditional espresso machines, in which the user grinds and tamps the coffee beans? Pod espresso machines, as the […]
Here is a list of our most frequently asked questions, in one easy reference page. The site expands on most of these topics further so please use the search function for more information.
With the seemingly endless amount of coffee beans produced in a plethora of growing regions each year to keep up with the demand of billions, coffee aficionados strive to find the best of the best. One might wonder, “why don’t these people just grow their own coffee?” And while that is a legitimate question, growing […]
When shopping for an espresso machine, among the millions of features advertised is the bar pressure rating of the machine, meaning how much pressure is used to force the water through the coffee grounds in the portafilter. What you need to avoid is bitter or sour tasting coffee, which we discuss here, but the bar […]
Let’s take a look at some commonly held myths about espresso and put some facts out there. 1. What is the crema, and why is it so obsessed over? Crema is the lighter cascading portion of an espresso shot, that slowly dissipates the longer the shot sits. Crema is responsible for a ton of the […]