5 Predictions for Coffee in 2008
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Having looked back at 2007 I am going to go out on a limb and have a go at a few predications for coffee in 2008, though try and keep them fairly general.
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A trip to Probat
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007I haven’t managed to get around to sorting through the photos I took whilst there with Klaus, Casper and Anette. It was one of the WBC prizes - a trip to Probat to learn more about roasting.
I will post more once I’ve sorted the photos - the museum alone is worth the trip to [...]
My increasing reliance on scales
Sunday, November 4th, 2007These days I drink relatively little espresso (compared to my total coffee intake). Most of the time it is the Chemex or the press.
I am pretty much a 60g/l kind of person when it comes to brewing and, after I was rightly schooled by Kyle Glanville whilst in LA, my grind for the Chemex is pretty coarse. However I just can’t let go of the obsessive chasing of detail. The moment’s where things just come together by mistake are few and far between for me, so I obsess. I tend to use a larger Chemex so when I only want a large cup it bothered me that I didn’t know visually exactly how much water to add, or when I had added enough without guesswork. And guesswork just won’t do.
