Tag Archives: tds

5 Predictions for 2010

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 2, 2010

I don’t know why I keep coming back for this, having not done so well last time but they are kind of fun to do. So without further ado here are my predictions:
1. Widespread measurement of brewed coffee
The spread of the Extract Mojo will help, and I think anyone who uses one will see their [...]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged 2010, baskets, chains, extraction, predictions, seasonality, wbc | 10 Comments

Espresso Poll: Results and Analysis

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 17, 2009

First off a big thank you to everyone who contributed to the espresso poll. It closed out at just under 100 people giving their data. Out of this some data had to be ignored as it was clearly entered in error, leaving just over 90 espressos worth of information.
I am not a massive statistics expert [...]

Posted in Espresso, News, Opinion | Also tagged brew ratios, Espresso, extraction, poll. survey | 9 Comments

ExtractMojo

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 16, 2009

This post should probably start with a disclaimer – I did not pay for my ExtractMojo, it was very kindly sent to me by Vince Fedele at Terroir Coffee to use and give feedback upon. I am very grateful to both him and Andy Schecter and Scott Rao also for getting me involved.
In many ways [...]

Posted in Opinion, coffee brewing | Also tagged brewing, character, Coffee, downloads, feedback, scae | 42 Comments

Making coffee with snow

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 2, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in coffee brewing | Also tagged coffee brewing, geek, siphon brewing, snow, vacpot | 11 Comments

More on the French Press Technique

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 15, 2008

After the last post there was a bit of discussion about this method.
One big question was: “Why break and then skim? Why not just skim?”
This seemed like a pretty good question to me, so today I decided to do a few quick tests.
I took two identical presses, the same dose of coffee, the same brew [...]

Posted in Coffee, coffee brewing | Also tagged coffeegeek, experiments, french press, how to, technique, Video, videocast | 16 Comments

TDS, Chemex and London’s terrible water

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 3, 2008

So thanks to the lovely people at Bunn I have a couple of TDS meters and have begun to poke them into various coffee drinks.
The first thing that upset me was just how hard London’s water is. Out of the tap I get 410ppm, which is pretty hard. This means it is not [...]