Drink

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…

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…

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,…