How you grind your coffee beans is almost as important as the quality of the beans themselves. Below are a few ground rules to get you started. When in doubt, go fine. Generally, the finer the ground, the more contact there will be between the water and the coffee, the richer the taste. But don’t [...]
How Coffee Beans Can Improve Your Life
by Ben The Coffee Geek in Coffee Articles
Can coffee beans improve your life? What a silly question. Of course they can. Well, maybe not if you don’t drink coffee, but I’m sure there are still some ways the beans can help make your life better in a lot of respects. Coffee beans can’t make your life perfect, but they can help improve [...]
Coffee with Your Own Coffee Bean Grinders
by Ben The Coffee Geek in Coffee Articles
Coffee is everywhere. It’s a staple for morning and many people swear they can’t live without it. Whether it’s Maxwell House, Folgers, Eight O’Clock or Starbucks, Colombian, Hazelnut or French Roast, coffee is coffee, right? Wrong. Coffee isn’t just a drink, it’s an experience. And to fully experience coffee, you need to go gourmet. There [...]
Coffee Shops and the Culture of Coffee
by Ben The Coffee Geek in Coffee Articles
Unlike most other non-alcoholic drinks, coffee is given the honor of having establishments dedicated to offering it in a lot of different forms and really building an entire cultural system around the drinking of it. And that’s it. Maybe it’s not the actual drinking of the coffee itself that makes the coffee shop experience what [...]
Coffee Bean Variety is the Spice of Morning Life
by Ben The Coffee Geek in Coffee Articles
Your parents and your parents’ parents may have been fine with the same old coffee day after day, month after month, and year after year, but it’s the 21st century! There’s no reason you should have to be limited to the same type of coffee day in and day out. From adding flavored creamers to [...]
Coffee Bean Grinders Battle Toasters Across the World: Film at Eleven
by Ben The Coffee Geek in Coffee Articles
Ok, with the image of toasters battling coffee bean grinders for domination of kitchens across the planet, I can maybe admit I’ve been watching too much Sci-Fi recently. In all seriousness, though, coffee bean grinders may be as important an appliance in your kitchen as the toaster. Here’s a quick look at what would happen [...]
