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The wrong grind can ruin great coffee. Grind size affects how quickly water extracts flavour from coffee. Too fine, and the water extracts too much...

Making good coffee isn't about guesswork. It's about consistency. One of the simplest ways to improve your coffee at home is to use the same coffee...

Every cup of Bootlegger coffee starts long before it reaches our cafés. It starts with the people growing it, the land it's grown on, and the choic...

Decaf has a reputation problem, and most of it is earned by bad decaf. Here's what good decaf actually means: the same care in sourcing and roastin...

'Speciality coffee' gets mentioned a lot, but it’s not just a catch-all term for trendy cafés. It refers to coffee that has been carefully handled ...

Cupping is the standard way coffee professionals taste and evaluate coffee. It’s used by farmers, roasters, and baristas around the world to better...

If you’ve ever had a coffee that tasted surprisingly fruity or a little different from what you expected, fermentation was probably part of the rea...