A few years ago, we bought a pod machine and started offering Hula Daddy pods. The experiment lasted about two months. We realized that the ground coffee in the pods went stale very quickly. We don’t offer Hula Daddy pods for that reason. The use by date on coffee pods on supermarket shelves is 6 to 12 months. Long before the use by date the coffee has gone stale. It doesn’t taste bad; it just …
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Espresso Yourself!
Espresso is an Italian word describing a coffee drink in which a small amount of nearly boiling water is forced under pressure through finely ground coffee. The word espresso is said to convey several meanings beyond the name of the drink as in, expressing the flavor from the coffee beans, or creating an express (fast) cup of coffee or making one cup expressly for an individual. In many …
Is It Really Kona?
A current class action lawsuit claims that 20 million pounds of coffee fake labeled “Kona'' is being sold on the world market. In a David v. Goliath clash five small Kona Coffee farmers, Bruce Corker, Colehour Bondera, Melanie Bondera, Robert Smith and Cecelia Smith, have sued Costco, Amazon, Hawaiian Isles, Cost Plus, Boyer’s, L & K Coffee, Copper Moon, Cameron’s, Gold Coffee, Coffee Inc,, …
Salty Coffee!
An old trick to improve coffee flavor is to add salt to the coffee either before or after brewing. It was popular when roasted beans staled in open bins and paper bags. It was also popular for low grade, high acid coffees. In the United States salting coffee has been replaced by sugar. However, it is still popular in some European countries. Salt like sugar dulls the palate so that bitterness …
A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Coffee Go Down!
Coffee is naturally sweet. Ripe coffee fruit has about the same amount of sugar as a wine grape. When coffee fruit is processed well, the green bean maintains its sugar until it is roasted and the sugar is caramelized. However, the average roasted coffee is bitter. The result is that consumers add sugar, honey, brown sugar or low calorie sweeteners to their coffee. For many consumers the …
Why Does My Coffee Taste Bitter
We received an email from a customer that said the coffee he ordered was the best coffee he had ever had in his whole life and could we send him two more pounds. He made our day! The next day we got an email from another customer who said our coffee was bitter and he wanted his money back. Both orders were from exactly the same roast batch. They were also from the roast we sent to Coffee Review …
How to Make Better Tasting Coffee
Here are six suggestions that can improve the taste of your coffee Coffee/Water Ratio. Regardless of the brewer you are using start with 10.7 grams of ground coffee (about 2 heaping tablespoons) for every 6 fluid ounces of water. Adjust up or down to taste. Water Use high quality filtered or bottled drinking water. Low quality filters leave chlorine and bitter chemicals …
Family Secrets
The use of human DNA information has revealed secrets that were hidden away. Children have found the parents that they thought were theirs, really aren’t. Donor babies have found that they have hundreds of half-siblings. Racists have found that they aren’t as pure as they thought. Families have split up and families have been brought together. Just like human DNA testing we now have affordable …
The Art of the Manual Pour Over
You are standing in a social distance line that stretches down the block at your favorite coffee shop. The barista is stressed. You order a pour over of their latest exotic coffee. You pay $5 and the barista scoops some pre-ground coffee into a paper filter, pours water through it and “Voila!” your coffee appears sixty seconds later. It tastes OK, but you expected something more. You think, quite …
Crimes Against Kona Coffee
Coffee from the Kona District of Hawaii has a outstanding reputation built on the integrity and hard work of its 600 coffee farmers. However, there are always a few individuals who damage the hard work of others. The quality and reputation of Kona Coffee is being abused by the "coffee crimes" of a few. Some of their activities are: 1. Fake Kona Coffee Reviews If you search the internet …
