Buying guides
Buying coffee beans online: roasters, subscriptions and freshness
What a good roaster's site tells you, sensible prices per kilogram, bag size against how much you drink, subscriptions, shipping and rest, and the red flags.
Specialty coffee
What the 80-point threshold means, what it does not mean, and who is actually doing the scoring.
Buying guides
Buying guides
Choosing beans for your brewing method
Which coffee to buy for espresso, filter, French press, moka, cold brew and milk drinks: roast level, process, origin, blend or single origin, and rest.
Articles
Cupping at home
The protocol professionals use to taste coffee, stripped to what works on a kitchen table, and what it is actually good for.
How to read a bag of coffee
Roast date, process, altitude, varietal and the tasting notes: what each line on a bag is actually claiming, and which ones are worth paying for.
Cafe culture, and what the three waves actually mean
First wave, second wave, third wave: where the phrase came from, what each one changed about the drink and the room.
What specialty coffee actually means
The eighty-point threshold, who assigns it, and what the label does and does not tell you about what is in the bag.