All joking aside, coffee has had some rough times over the last couple of centuries through shortages and limited supplies. This led to some pretty ingenious ideas on how to solve these problems by adding substitutes of all sorts. This is the case of a celebrated coffee drink in New Orleans that …
Many coffee methods that employ a pour-over method will differ slightly from one another. Depending on how much coffee you want to make, the subtle differences in flavor and the choice of brewing methods are always going to make a difference. While this article will be an all-out battle between Chemex and …
BESTTRADER JOE’SCOFFEE FORCold & Hot Brew JUMP TO RESULTS Trader Joe’s offers a wide variety of whole-bean coffees fit for pourover, drip, French press, and cold brew. In this article, we test eleven of the top Trader Joe’s coffees to find the best around.I like Trader Joe’s, but I don’t go there …
Some coffee traditions go back centuries which is as old as the tales that sprang out of Europe and the Middle East a long time ago. When it comes to Nel Drip, an unlikely country that broke with tradition embraced a method for making a new form of coffee that we know …
Often thought of as the Aussie version of an americano, the long black coffee is usually a much more sophisticated drink than its larger American cousin. Most coffee bars in Australia exclusively serve espresso-based drinks and don’t make filter-brewed coffee at all. Australian baristas offer long black coffee to satisfy the occasional …
Classic Turkish coffee is still being made in the Balkans – for example, in Serbia, Greece, and the Middle East. Turkey imports as much as 220,000 tons of tea a year, and only 9,000 tons of coffee. Survey results show that most people think that tea, not coffee, is a reflection of …
Instant coffee is available in various combinations: With dehydrated milk, With sugar, Without milk and no sugar With various aromas. History of instant coffee Instant coffee was discovered in 1906 by the chemist George C. Washington, an Englishman who lived in Guatemala. A well-known coffee lover spotted a powdery precipitate in his …
By now you’ve noticed how popular immersion coffee has become. But did you know that it’s not new? It happens to be the oldest method for making coffee that predates modern methods for drip filter coffee by 200 years. But times are changing in our digital world and what was old is …
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Let me begin this piece by saying that I am drinking my fourth cup of coffee right now and it´s barely after noon. Does that make me a coffee addict? Well, not exactly, but was reason enough for me to look for a good substitute to reduce caffeine. “Decaf or ‘decaffeinated coffee’ …
Your coffee has zero calories, a few calories or a lot of calories. I’m willing to bet that no one really thinks about calories in their coffee; especially the people that drink it straight black. Do you think about calories if there is creamer in it? What about adding sugar and milk? …