What has Stanford University engineering lecturer in common with coffee? Well, he designed wonderful flying disc, which broke many distance records and he started producing them under the name Aerobie. It’s a great thing to have loads of fun with outdoors. What this have in common...
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Let’s be honest. We love coffee. It is second most popular drink of the world. Just after water obviously. But what coffee really is? Why does it contain caffeine?
As with everything we can go the easy way or the geeky one… Geeky? Allright… Perfect water for coffee should contain around 10mg of Sodium per liter and have pH between 6.5 and 7.5…Joking.
Irish weather is absolutely unpredictable. While world is locked down in homes caused of Covid-19 pandemic we have most beautiful spring in years. Temperatures are hitting even 20 degrees and as we are getting lazy some cold coffee would be a treat.
There is few methods of having your morning caffeine cold, but today I’d like to tell you about probably easiest one and definitely most interesting method to make yourself iced coffee at home. Overnight.
Few people imagine that they have to brew coffee before they grind and brew it. Even fewer people know that roasting coffee at home is possible. At the beginning of the 20th century it was obvious, now it is a hobby for the chosen. Roasting coffee at home is not very difficult and you get more than you think!
AIRTIGHT AND COOL Storage is integral part of maintaining your coffee's freshness and flavour. It is important to keep it away from excessive air, moisture, heat, and light – in that order – to preserve its fresh-roasted flavour as long as possible. Coffee beans are decorative...
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Roasting is a process in which green coffee beans are exposed to temperature of 200-300 Celsius degrees. Success of the process depends on experience of the person operating roasting machine. Some say, that coffee beans should be roasted fast and intensively, to capture precious aromatic combinations, while others claim it is achievable slowly and gradually. However, all agree that the most important is the moment of optimal temperature where process of roasting is stopped. Roast level determines how coffee was roasted.
Brewing coffee is a ceremony. Did you ever realised how you brew your coffee? Is pouring water into a cup with coffee in it the way to make the most of it? See for yourself…