Month: May 2021

Influencers have gone off the deep end. What in the world would Oprah Winfrey know about espresso machines and coffee makers? Yet here we have it, in a Yahoo Life blast out article, Oprah’s Favorite Coffee Maker Will Make You Feel Like a Barista, is just a bunch of complete bullshit. I don’t use that

Press the Shot Brew Button However your machine is activated to brew espresso (button press, lever lift, paddle turn, etc), now’s the time to do so. Again, we’re trying to brew the best possible espresso shot, so use all your tricks to get a good one here. We’re holding the button to extend pre-infusion on

If you’ve read part one of this article, you’ll know that coffee is an amazing and glorious shrub in both its living and transformed state. So what do housing, furniture, lighting, home goods, jewelry, textiles, food production, and fuel all have to do with this miracle plant (besides being a necessity for living)? Thanks to

A little more than two years ago, I realized I need to stop drinking cow milk. Deciding which plant-based milk should replace it was a decision that was inherently about what would work best with my coffee, as coffee is the main reason I drink milk. The CoffeeGeek team has been covering the rising trend

When Covid cases were first starting to rise in North America and lockdowns ensued, De la Gente (DLG) had to decide what to do with four containers of coffee. But these weren’t containers you might store a pound or two of coffee in to brew at home. These were containers that together stock approximately 167,000

Although coffee beans originated in the mountainous regions of Western Ethiopia, the earliest written evidence of cultivation appeared in 12th century Yemen. Likely carried over the Red Sea by Ethiopian invaders, the plant became a foundational aspect of Islamic culture once on the Arabian peninsula. It is the favorable growing conditions of the Yemenese highlands

When you look at those tiny roasted gems that will eventually transform into the life sustaining beverage we call coffee, you might not fully understand what you’re looking at. What we are really seeing is a single part of a whole. For example, you can’t truly begin to appreciate your cappuccino without understanding the ratios

Instagram Image Credits, from top clockwise: @nikkigbigger, @coffeegobel, @coffeeker_photography, @capecoffeebeans, @chrisronak, @mountainbatista, center: @calin.charles A cursory scroll through Aeropress’s Instagram account feels equal parts globe-trotting itinerary as a coffee-making promotion. The array of photo locations with the brewing device in hand is astounding; South African waterfalls, the mountains of China, the Eiffel tower. Deeper into

These are no lightweights, designed for ultralight backpacking or bicycle camping. The Pelican cases and their contents are pretty heavy. The 1400 Pelican measures 34cm long, 29cm deep, and 15.5cm tall, and weighs 2kg with the foam inserts. The 1500 Pelican is more beefy; it’s almost half a meter wide, 36cm deep, 18cm tall and

Camping has seen a massive boost in popularity during the global pandemic, and 2021 will see the trend continue. At CoffeeGeek, our goal is for you to have amazing coffee and to develop the skills needed to deliver it anytime, any place, anywhere. That includes off the grid, while travelling, and while camping. To help

Spring is here and that means the days are getting longer and the temperature is getting warmer.  On days when you just don’t feel like a hot cup (scandalous, I know), the next best thing is a cool and revitalizing cold brew coffee. You know, there’s nothing worse than going to a coffee shop and

At over 5 kilograms, the Apex Grinder is easily the heaviest manual grinder you can buy today. The grinder comes complete with tools and even optional parts for you to really dive into it if you want and make modifications. Doug Garrett even has a bunch of videos on Youtube showing how to take the

Coffee is a matter of serious consideration even for those not invested in specialty coffee. Coffee drinkers, by and large, have strong opinions about their preferred cup, their preferred brewing method, their preferred flavor profile, and whether or not they add various kinds of milk, creams, and sweeteners to it. How someone takes their coffee

We’ve got some new products to showcase today, all of which will be reviewed in our Blog’s Mini Review category. They are from a company called Soulhand, which sells an expanding range of coffee brewing and preparation products. We’ve got three of them to show today and to set up for review. Soulhand 350ml Ice

Polished Immersion Brewing Later in 2015, Intelligentsia Coffee’s Sarah Anderson developed this process in her 2015 US Brewers Cup winning routine. She steeped the coarsely ground coffee for 4-5 minutes in French Press carafes and skimmed the crust, as Prince did. After this, the coffee was run through cone filter brewers with a slow pour

Arabica lovers rejoice with news of the re-discovery of Coffea stenophylla, a coffee species found in the wild in Sierra Leone.  On April 19th, a team of scientists led by Botanist Aaron Davis from the Royal Botanic Gardens published a paper in Nature Plants stating that Stenophylla, the species of coffee rediscovered in the dense

It’s not uncommon for a “coming soon” sign to be off by a few months. But after waiting all of 2019 and not seeing much progress as 2020 rolled in, I was starting to grow skeptical that the coffee shop/wine bar next door to my apartment in the Marina Del Rey area of Los Angeles