Coffee

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.…

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…

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,”…

Last week, we had lunch with some of our Colombian coffee connections from Caravela Coffee.  It was a great conversation about beans, people, and places. Here are a few things that…

Reposado: (adj.) it’s like nap-time for green coffee beans. After coffee is harvested, pulped, washed, and dried, it is left in its parchment (a thin skin around the bean) for…

  When shopping for coffee and looking at bean specs, you’ve probably seen a number indicating the altitude at which the coffee was grown. If you’re not super into coffee,…

Americano: (n.) a different way to get to a good cup of coffee. An Americano is made by pulling a double shot of espresso over 6oz of hot water. This creates…

Single-origin: (adj.) used to describe a coffee that comes from one lot, farm, region, or country. Before the past decade, most of the coffee people drank was probably a blend of beans…

Sometimes on hot summer days, you just gotta treat yourself. Here’s a slammin’ solo recipe for our Yemen Marqaha on Silverton over ice. If you don’t have a gram scale,…

Here at La Colombe, we continue to take coffee to the next level. Sometimes to do that, you have to rethink your approach, and tear it all apart. With our…