Jul 06 2024
Mushroom coffee has gone from a niche wellness drink to something you can find alongside traditional coffee, instant coffee, and cold brew in stores and online. With ingredients such as lion’s mane, chaga, reishi, and cordyceps appearing on labels, it is often marketed as a smarter or healthier way to start the morning. But what …
Jul 03 2024
What is the best coffee in the world? It sounds like a simple question until you begin tasting truly exceptional coffee. A delicate Ethiopian coffee scented with jasmine and citrus bears almost no resemblance to a syrupy Sumatran coffee filled with dark chocolate and spice. A Panamanian Gesha can taste astonishingly like tea and tropical …
Jul 01 2024
Light roast coffee is where coffee gets wonderfully interesting. Instead of emphasizing the smoky, bittersweet flavors created by prolonged roasting, a light roast can allow more of the bean’s original character to remain noticeable in the cup. Depending on where the coffee was grown and how it was processed, a light roast might taste like …
Jul 01 2024
Every cup of coffee begins somewhere very different from the grinder, espresso machine, or coffee maker on your kitchen counter. It begins on a leafy tropical plant covered with glossy green leaves, delicate white flowers, and clusters of colorful fruit. And those familiar brown coffee “beans”? They aren’t really beans at all. They are the …
Jun 27 2024
Great coffee starts with two simple ingredients: coffee and water. Yet getting the balance between them right can make the difference between a rich, flavorful cup and coffee that tastes weak, harsh, bitter, or strangely flat. The easiest way to improve consistency is to use a coffee-to-water ratio. Instead of guessing how many scoops to …
Jun 27 2024
If you enjoy espresso but sometimes wish the experience lasted a little longer, lungo coffee may be exactly what you’re looking for. Rich, aromatic, and more spacious in the cup than a traditional espresso, a lungo is made by allowing more water to pass through the coffee grounds during extraction. The result is not quite …
Jun 27 2024
That 12-ounce mug of coffee may feel like a perfectly ordinary morning serving, but how much caffeine is actually in it? For a 12 oz cup of regular brewed coffee, a useful general range is about 113–247 mg of caffeine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists that range for a typical 12-fluid-ounce serving of …
Jun 24 2024
Best Coffee for French Press: Beans, Roast, Grind & Buying Guide A French press has a remarkable way of revealing what is really inside a bag of coffee. There is no paper filter to remove much of the coffee’s natural oils, and the grounds remain immersed in the water for several minutes. The result can …
Jun 22 2024
If you have ever discovered a half-finished bag of coffee hiding in the back of a cabinet, you have probably wondered: Do coffee beans go bad? The answer is a little more complicated than a simple yes or no. Roasted coffee beans usually do not spoil quickly in the same way that milk, meat, or …
Jun 17 2024
Walk into a good coffee shop—or scroll through a specialty roaster’s website—and choosing coffee beans can suddenly feel surprisingly complicated. Light roast or dark? Ethiopia or Colombia? Washed or natural? Single-origin or blend? Whole bean or ground? The good news is that you don’t need to become a professional coffee taster to choose great beans. …
