Category: How-to: Coffee
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What is a Siphon Coffee Maker?
If you’re new to the world of specialty coffee you may be wondering, what are those cool looking chemistry sets that hipster baristas often use? Well, you may be surprised to discover that siphon coffee makers have been providing exceptional cups of coffee to people all over the world for almost 200 years. History of…
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What is Coffee Cupping
No, we’re not talking about traditional Chinese medicine that uses glass cups and suction that cures muscle pain. Instead, we’ll be discussing coffee tasting, which professionals refer to as coffee cupping. We can dive deeper into this craft and use coffee cupping to better understand a specific type of coffee. It is a precise, consistent…
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How To: Use a Siphon Coffee Maker
This fancy contraption is called a siphon coffee maker (not “syphon”, we looked it up), aka the vacuum coffee maker. What You’ll Need Siphon coffee pot Heat source (Siphon coffee pots usually come with a heat source) Filter (made of cloth or metal) Water (duh) Whole Coffee Beans Grinder Scale Flat stirrer (or a coffee paddle,…
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Pour Over Coffee: Chemex vs Hario V60
Chemex vs Hario V60 Pour over coffee is quickly growing in popularity. Pour over coffee allows the user to control more factors of the brewing process, resulting in a more unique (arguably better) cup of coffee. Two of the most popular pour over coffee makers are the Chemex vs Hario V60. To help determine the…
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How To Make the Best Pour Over Coffee at Home
Water, freshly ground beans and gravity make one of the purest cups of coffee you’ll ever enjoy. Pour over brewing has been around a long time, but you might not recognize it in its manual form – percolators and coffeemakers work basically the same way. But whereas coffeemakers shower just-boiled water over the grounds, manual…