Which coffee brewing method has the most caffeine: drip brew? French press? Espresso? Many believe the answer is espresso. After all, espresso is concentrated coffee, brewed by the pressure of hot water flowing through finely-ground coffee beans. With espresso being a small, concentrated amount of coffee, it would make sense that espresso has the most [...]

Time Your Coffee Grind Timing is everything… and the timing of when you grind your coffee beans matters. I’ve briefly mentioned it before, but there is a huge difference in the taste of brewed coffee when you brew within 60 seconds of grinding vs. brewing coffee with beans you ground the night before while setting [...]

Rinse Your Coffee Filter to Remove Paper Taste You may not realize it, but the paper filters we use when brewing coffee in a drip-brewer or coffee dripper have a taste. A pretty disgusting taste, actually… like chewing on newspaper. Paper filters have soluble solids in them which are extracted during the brew process and [...]

Preheat Your Mug for Better Tasting Coffee For many years I drank coffee without preheating my mug. I’d pour in the coffee into a room temperature mug (which actually tends to be a little cold by touch at room temperature), add some cold creamer, then would be really dissatisfied at the lukewarm brew I’d start [...]

Leveraging the Pause and Serve for Better Coffee Although I’m partial to making coffee in a french press or a pour over cone dripper, many people still use regular old drip coffee brewers. And that’s OK. Maybe you don’t like the amount of sediment you get in your cup from using a french press (grind [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen it, at the bottom of some packages of coffee or on directions of coffee makers… “Use cold water when brewing your coffee”. But, why would it matter if you use warm or cold water when brewing, if the water will get hot anyway? When you see the disclaimer advising you to [...]

This morning, as I made myself a french press of coffee, roasted 3 days ago, I thought I would take a picture of the french press as it brewed. This picture is taken about 30 seconds after pouring near-boiling water on top of coffee, ground just seconds before. From the picture, you can see that [...]

Flavored Coffee and Maintaining Quality. Lots of people like to drink flavored coffee… I enjoy it occasionally, but whenever I get flavored coffee at the local coffee shop or someone’s house, it never seems to taste very good. Have you ever noticed how bitter and bland the brew usually tastes? It’s like a mixture of [...]

Do light or dark roasts have more caffeine? I was recently asked by a Twitter follower “why does dark roast coffee have more caffeine?”. A lot of people believe that just because the beans were roasted dark and have a burnt taste, that means that the coffee is “stronger” and has more caffeine… but that [...]

If you’re like me, you’re always looking for a  better cup of coffee… whether that’s using fresher coffee beans, trying a new method of brewing coffee or buying a new grinder. If you’ve purchased a new grinder, you may have noticed that it ground up the coffee really well at first and the resulting cup [...]