One of the things I love about crafting a great cup of coffee is just how easy it actually can be to make a good one consistently. But most of the time this rules out certain brewing methods. There was a time when I would recommend the V60 as a great beginner
The Ratio Four Coffee Machine is the Portland-based brand’s latest brewer. Photo by Howard Bryman. Over the past 10 years, Portland, Oregon-based Ratio has gone a long way in broadening the niche of beautiful, well-wrought, simple-to-use automatic home drip coffeemakers. The company’s first two machines, the Eight and the Six, have both
I love cowboy coffee. If not so much for the taste, as for the setting. I do a lot of backpacking. I used to use those coffee bags and then discovered cowboy coffee out of necessity when I couldn’t find the bags in the podunk town General Store near the
There’s a practice we have admired for a long time which we’re going to explore in this post to see if our assumptions are correct. Occasionally you see a new startup coffee business dive in the deep end and drop some serious coin on the best espresso machine they can
The Bay Area coffee community is gearing up for the eighth edition of the San Francisco Coffee Festival; we explore some of the excitement planned.BY TANYA NANETTI SENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENTPhotos courtesy of San Francisco Coffee FestivalThe entire Bay Area coffee community is gearing up for the new edition of the