Friday Escape: Oishi Park, Japan
The lavender fields in Oishi Park, Japan. A peaceful-looking Friday Escape at the end of a busy week. Get yourself ready for the weekend by turning your brain off a…
3 Solid Single-Origins
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…
Quick Fix for Cold Brew: Iced Chemex
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…
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…
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…
Yep, Coffee Is A Fruit
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…
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.…