Why Does My Coffee Taste Sour
Pull a shot of espresso for 18 seconds instead of 28, and you’ll know immediately. The cup that…
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How Coffee Gets From Farm to Cup
A coffee tree planted on a Javanese hillside will not yield its first usable harvest for three to…
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In 1978, Erna Knutsen gave a talk at the International Coffee Organization’s conference in Montreuil, France, and used…
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In Ethiopia’s Yirgacheffe district, where wild coffee plants grow as they have for centuries, two neighboring farms producing…
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In 2007, a team at the Technical University of Munich led by food chemist Thomas Hofmann identified the…
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In 2016, the Specialty Coffee Association updated its Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel — a tool originally published in…
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At the 2019 World Barista Championship in Boston, every competitor used a single-origin coffee for their signature beverage…
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A cup of coffee can cost fifty cents or fifty dollars. A bag of beans might run you…
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The first purchase of genuine wild-sourced kopi luwak tends to go one of two ways: either you spend…
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