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 …
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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 …
Time for a Brewing Method Checkup
This is a great time to do a brewing checkup. If you have wondered whether your brewing method is giving you the full flavor of your coffee, now you have the time to find out. The tools you will need to do a checkup are your coffee beans, your grinder, your brewer, a kitchen thermometer, a timer and a gram scale. There are computer apps available that will help you calculate the …
Does Your Coffee Cup Color Change the Taste?
Now that Hula Daddy has logo'd white espresso cups, almond coffee mugs and multicolored travel mugs you are faced with an intense moment of critical decision making. There you are sheltering in place getting bored and looking for a little excitement. You want to add a logo'd Hula Daddy coffee cup to spice up your life. You have to pick a cup for your coffee but which color cup will enhance your …
Cold Brewed or Cold Drip Coffee?
Two methods of brewing coffee cold have become popular. One method Cold Brewed Coffee uses an immersion style of brewing and the other Cold Drip Coffee uses a slow drip brewing system. Cold Brew Coffee has more floral flavors than Cold Drip Coffee but Cold Drip Coffee has a richer body. Cold Brewed Coffee is an immersion style brewing. Cold water and ground coffee are mixed together, allowed to …
Drip or Immersion?
All coffee brewing can be put into one of two categories, drip brewing or immersion brewing. Drip brewing includes automatic brewers, pod and capsule brewers, Aeropress, espresso, moka pot, percolator and manual pour overs. Immersion brewers include campfire coffee, Turkish coffee, siphon coffee, clever style brewers and French press coffee. Given exactly the same beans roasted to the same degree …
