bloom: key step in the brewing process where the coffee grounds are initially wetted so carbon dioxide (CO2) trapped in the beans can be released, allowing the brewing water to make better contact...
Vietnam is the number 2 coffee growing country in the world I posted about coffee adulteration, spurred in part by a story out of Vietnam. A company was caught taking dirt, rock dust, and...
They put WHAT in the coffee?! genuine: authentic, real, actual, original, bona fide, true, unadulterated This story is about "coffee" that is anything but. People want - and, okay,...
Obviously, cream with coffee tastes great. As far as I'm concerned that's reason enough but there are other good reasons to put cream in your coffee and that's not how I originally came to making it...
Two "Coffee Beans" back to back At some point, most of us Procaffeinators will ponder this question. If we are particularly precocious, we ask it in our youth, perhaps when we come across a stray...
I Got Started Pretty Early [caption id="attachment_45" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stove Top Percolator, photo by Kristen Haynie[/caption] My earliest memories of coffee are in my...
