Coffee

Everyone knows about Cuban coffee. It’s notoriously dark, strong, and sweet, usually served in small cups called tacitas. It’s easy to get a café cubano (Cuban coffee) anywhere in the…

We have a new coffee pack available for purchase on our site, and lemme tell ya, it’s a solid line-up. These three brews are great examples of standard-but-excellent coffees from…

Since Todd went to Japan in this week’s episode of Uncommon Grounds, we’re trying out the Japanese-style method of making iced coffee! If you are a cold brew lover, this recipe…

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…

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…

You probably know this already but don’t think about it often: Coffee is a fruit that grows on a tree. Even though we call them coffee “beans,” they are actually…

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.…

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…