Coffee Lingo: Parchment
Parchment: (n.) a coffee bean’s skivvies. As we know, coffee beans are the seeds of the coffee fruit. Inside the pulp of the coffee cherry, there are two other layers…
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Pull ‘Spro Like a Pro: 3 Espresso Tips
When you go into a cafe for your morning coffee, the espresso machine is buzzing and the barista is dancing around it, pulling shots fast and furiously. It takes a…
Monday Motivation: Fear versus Danger
It’s Monday, our new favorite day of the week! Todd Carmichael’s new show, Uncommon Grounds, is airing on the Travel Channel tonight at 11pm. This week, Todd heads to Japan…
Making the Dragon
While he was preparing to compete in the 2014 U.S. Brewer’s Cup, Todd realized that he wanted to do something big, something different that had never been seen in competition.…
Friday Escape: Through the Strait of Gibraltar
This week’s Friday Escape really started on Monday. All week, our buddy Kevin (part of our NYC coffee crew) has been texting photos of his current travels in Spain and Morocco.…
Todd’s Top 3 Reasons to Watch Uncommon Grounds
Todd Carmichael’s new show Uncommon Grounds is set to launch on Monday, September 14th, and you’re going to want to catch it! But why, you ask? What happens in Uncommon…
Coffee Lingo: Red Eye
Red Eye: (n.) the best of both worlds – coffee and espresso. A Red Eye is a drink that consists of brewed coffee topped off with a shot of espresso.…
Back To School Chemex Routine
For those of us who headed back to school this fall, one of the hardest transitions from summer vacation to class can be nailing down your new morning coffee ritual.…
Friday Escape: Barcelona, Spain
Our NYC Hudson Square cafe manager Kevin (Instagram: @_aldrich_) is in Barcelona, Spain, right now and we are awfully jealous. He sent us a shot of his morning brew, and while…
Epic, Easy Cold Brew To Take Down the Shore
Labor Day weekend is coming up and it’s one of our last chances to get down to the shore (or “down the shore,” as we say in Philly). For the…
Coffee Lingo: A toddy coffee
Toddy coffee: (n.) a retro name for cold brew. Back in the 1960s, a man named Todd Simpson invented a coffee brewer for cold extraction. The brewer, named “The Toddy,”…
