Tag Archives: coffee brewing

Recommended Coffee Reading List – Part 1

Back in 2006 I published a recommended reading list. Since that time my collection of books has (worryingly) increased so I thought I should probably update it. I could easily write a list of coffee books that one should avoid (having learned the hard way) but I suspect that would get me into [...]

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Making coffee with snow

Once again pulled from Mark Prince’s twitter1 , I loved this idea and with a few inches outside it seemed inevitable the inner child would take over…

Footnotes:Yes, yes – I know we are all bored to tears with hearing about Twitter, but sadly we are stuck with it so we might as well embrace it [...]

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I’m very excited!

Got a phone call this evening about a little machinery project that we embarked upon with Marco, telling me that they will be debuting the machine at CatEx – Ireland’s HORECA tradeshow – between the 9th and 11th of February.  It was an idea we had that they agree to R&D, and the data coming [...]

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Videocast #4 – Stovetop/Moka Pot

I wanted to tackle a tricky brewing method for this videocast, and it will probably cause some debate – people saying that I am using it wrong etc etc…
I wasn’t trying to recreate espresso with the little brewer – I just wanted to find a way to use it so it made clean, sweet and [...]

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Videocast #3 – Chemex

Just a quick link to the third Square Mile videocast:

Videocast #3 – Chemex/Pourover from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
For more information there are some notes on the Square Mile blog.
Comments and discussion always welcome.

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Christmas Coffee Gift suggestions

In a short break from my current series of articles I thought I’d have a go at answering and pre-empting a few questions that I usually get this time of year.
So – stuck for what to buy the coffee lover in your life?
First off – don’t buy them an espresso machine unless they’ve speicifically asked [...]

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French Press Technique

Videocast #2 – French Press Technique from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
I know I cross posted this on the Square Mile Blog, but I thought I should post it here too. Feedback is always welcome, and yes – I am still totally obsessed with brewing on scales!
Comments are open again!

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