Category Archives: Coffee

More Great Places to Drink Coffee

This list of America’s Best Boutique Coffees comes from Forbes and features independent shops across the country.

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Fetco Introduces Coffee Brewing Podcasts

In Fetco‘s first foray into “Brewing Sessions” podcast, they explain the 6 basic elements that can affect coffee taste: brewing temperature, formula of water-to-coffee, contact time, grind particle size, turbulence and freshness after brewing. Temperature: Matt Greg, a regional sales …

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How Long Do Coffee Beans Last?

We get asked this questions occasionally, and I always remember the time I was watching a guy make espresso. He ground the coffee, and then had a slight problem with his espresso machine. The machine was fixed and ready to …

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Great Video About Making Coffee

Everyone craves the perfect cup of coffee. How to make it? Start with a Chemex brewer, then follow the advice of Arno at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco in this video from Chow.com.

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A Brief History of Coffee

• 1-500 AD – According to local legend, coffee is discovered near present-day village of Choche in Ethiopia by a goat-herder who notices his animals “dance” with an unusual amount of energy after eating wild, bright-red Arabica coffee berries. Locals …

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How Coffee is Decaffeinated

First, let’s start with a really quick history. Coffee was first decaffeinated by Ludwig Roselius, a German coffee merchant, in 1905 after he received a coffee shipment that had gotten soaked during a storm at sea. He experimented with the …

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