WBC 2016 Rules Shake-up

بواسطة | يناير 30, 2017 | المدونة

Just before the weekend you may have stumbled upon a press release from World Coffee Events. It details some significant rule changes to the World Barista Championship for 2016 onwards. See the article here. I’d like to spend this week exploring and discussing...
Distributing for Espresso

Distributing for Espresso

بواسطة | يناير 30, 2017 | المدونة

Last week I sent out a survey with a single simple question: How do you distribute for espresso? Distribution is the act of evening out the coffee grinds in an espresso machine’s basket before tamping. This helps the water pass through all of the coffee grinds at the...
Let’s Talk About Roasting

Let’s Talk About Roasting

بواسطة | يناير 30, 2017 | المدونة

This is a post about how to talk about coffee roasts. It isn’t a post about how to roast coffee (although there’s some nuggets in there). As I was typing up a post about extraction evenness in regards to roasting (which I promise I will get to soon), I realised...
Brew Local, Act global

Brew Local, Act global

بواسطة | يناير 30, 2017 | المدونة

Could even extractions save the industry? Yes. Sort Of. This is a condensed version of a talk I gave in Shanghai and Taipei last year for Tamper Tantrum. If you’d like to see the original – where I talk about extraction and include some more detail –...
Coffee Extraction – The 80:20 Method

Coffee Extraction – The 80:20 Method

بواسطة | يناير 30, 2017 | المدونة

So we’ve been through how to get more or less extraction from a coffee and what that might taste like. But how do we make the most of this? The following is my super simple 80:20 method for getting the best out of a coffee with minimal effort. The 80:20 rule or...