Coffee

‘Fresh’ is a term in coffee that has been overused by retailers and consumers alike, to the point that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. What is freshness?
Roast dates have become a popular trend amongst quality coffee companies in order to educate the consumer about the importance of having coffee that is roasted recently. The aromatics [...]

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a group of Korean Buddhist monks a weeks worth of coffee classes to help them improve upon the coffee that they were making at the Bongeun-Sa temple in Seoul. Forgive my ignorance but I was unaware that monks were able to drink coffee but it turns out that [...]

I eat out a lot – dinner, desserts, wine, cocktails, coffee. Unfortunately, if I do have a cup of coffee after dinner when I eat out, I am most often disappointed. I can handle the 10pm caffeine infusion, as much as I can handle the wine or booze–it is most often the preparation or lack [...]