
Not much to add here! This is from Columbia and the coffee is being roasted in a big pan over a charcoal fire. We are already pretty far along in the roast when we see this video – I’d personally be pulling the beans off the heat at the beginning of the video or even [...]

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One of the great mysteries of coffee are the myriad of chemical reactions that occur inside the bean as coffee is roasted. Every coffee is different because they start with different bioflavinoids, esters and other complex organic compounds within the bean. But roasting then changes all these compounds at different levels. In fact, [...]

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The news is a-buzz. Consumer Reports has picked the best ground coffee and it isn’t (shock) Starbucks!!!!!
While it is somewhat interesting that a properly conducted taste test did pick out a ground coffee winner, let’s all take a deep breath and a step back.
First off, the test looked only at 100% Columbian. [...]