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أقراص القهوة المستهلكة

بواسطة brygmanden | يناير 13, 2021 | المدونة

Does analysing an espresso puck after extraction tell you anything useful about what happened during extraction? One of the challenges of making espresso is that it’s usually hard to tell if a shot was any good before serving it to a customer. It’s common practice to...

Estimating the Environmental Cost

بواسطة brygmanden | ديسمبر 31, 2020 | المدونة

In order to continue with our life-cycle analysis (LCA), we need to choose a best estimate for the GHG emissions related to coffee growing and processing. As we’ve seen in the last few lessons, this is a difficult proposition, and the answer can vary considerably...

Choosing a Green Green Coffee

بواسطة brygmanden | ديسمبر 11, 2020 | المدونة

It’s clear that the two main contributors to emissions from production result from fertiliser use on the farm and fermentation from wet processing at the mill. Yet the studies that we’ve discussed vary widely in their estimates, due partly to the different conditions...

درجة الحرارة المثالية للتخمير بالمكبس الفرنسي

بواسطة brygmanden | نوفمبر 28, 2020 | المدونة

For pour-over methods like V60, Barista Hustle has long advocated using very hot water for brewing coffee — just off the boil, or at around 98°C for anyone using a temperature-controlled kettle. However, in our new course all about Immersion brewing, we make quite...

Sequestering Carbon

بواسطة brygmanden | نوفمبر 15, 2020 | المدونة

Agroforestry and Carbon Sequestration Coffee grows natively under forest trees, and it is well adapted to growing under shade. ‘Agroforestry’ refers to a system of cultivation in which coffee is grown amidst forest trees. These may be native forest trees or they may...

Burning Down The House

بواسطة brygmanden | أكتوبر 30, 2020 | المدونة

Land Use Changes Establishing the coffee plantations in Brazil that made it the world’s biggest supplier of coffee came at a huge environmental cost. Huge swaths of tropical rainforest were felled and burned to clear the land for coffee seedlings (M Pendergrast,...