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March 15, 2021Uncategorized

(ADVANCED) Aeropress Championship Recipes – deconstructed and explained

Who has ever looked for winning aeropress recipes and tried to repeat them at home? I am guilty, I’ve tried. And I am almost sure that if you are here, reading this – you have done it as well.

How were the results?

Mine… Were controversial. I mean, those are the winning recipes, they must taste very good – that’s the point, no? But they kinda were tasting just ok. Just fine. In the beginning. And when the coffee cooled down – they were not tasty anymore.
Who has ever looked for winning aeropress recipes and tried to repeat them at home? I am guilty, I’ve tried. And I am almost sure that if you are here, reading this – you have done it as well.

How were the results?

March 5, 2021Uncategorized

(ADVANCED) – Cupping Protocols Update – a new protocol by SCI

Today Sustainable Coffee Institute released a new cupping protocol, and it is nice to take a look at it, and see what are the changes suggested by them.

February 21, 2021Uncategorized

Roasting Coffee or “You can’t always get what you want”

Back in 2015 Rob Hoos published a book that, I like to think, changed the perspective of the roasters who read it about how to roast coffee in order to taste in a specific way. How to add sweetness, what to do to increase the perception of the body, how to mitigate or accentuate the […]

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019Uncategorized

#2 – FAKE SPECIALTY FEVER

Lisbon coffee scene has changed a lot in the last 3 years – or better to say, it finally started. Comparing to 2015 when there was just one coffee roaster in the city, and two coffee shops, now we have have a whole range of places who claim to be serving specialty – and […]

September 13, 2019Uncategorized

TRANSFORMATION

So, hello guys, long time no see! I feel kinda divided in some sense, regarding writing in this blog. It all started by purely sharing my opinion on different aspects of specialty coffee world – and it started pretty violent. What I mean is that when I started this blog I was […]

July 4, 2019Uncategorized

#73 – Is purchasing “bad” coffee inevitable?

I recently tried a very grassy underdeveloped coffee. Beans were hard as rocks. Coffee tasted really bad. But the marketing of the roaster was more or less what you would expect it to be. With the words like “excellence”, “leading roaster”, “specialty coffee”, “professional approach”, “let us take you for a journey to […]

February 17, 2019February 17, 2019Uncategorized

#71 – Tasting Notes and Tasting Coffee

Once again, while browsing online, I stumbled upon an instagram account of one coffee enthusiast. The post was saying “I didn’t taste strawberries, but chocolate and lime were there” – and a pictire of a coffee bag from one respected roaster. I like specialty coffee, cause it is simple, at first glance, especially when you […]

July 29, 2018July 28, 2018Uncategorized

#70 – Killing me Softly, or once again about Water Question

What is the right water to use when brewing coffee? What is the water you are brewing with? I’ve been facing many coffee superstitions lately, or some sort of beliefs, and the water-related topics are in the lead. They are winning over the battle of “right” coffee recipes for different methods (coffee […]

May 17, 2018May 16, 2018Uncategorized

#69 – Looking for the Unicorn: Espresso and Filter roasts

… is there really a significant difference between them, or dividing the roasts these way is more of a remnant of the past? I was trying to buy some coffee from the Spanish roaster this morning, and found again that division. That they have 2 roasts, for espresso and for filter, and they […]