by Darren Luft | Mar 6, 2025 | Roasting
We’ve been roasting coffee since an enterprising Ethiopian goat herder watching his weirdly energetic goats said, “I’ll have what they’re having”. But today, we’re not just roasting. We’re conducting chemical transformations...
by Darren Luft | Feb 21, 2025 | Roasting
Here’s the thing about your morning coffee: while you’re shuffling around your kitchen in a pre-caffeinated haze, there’s an entire ecosystem of people whose livelihoods depend on those beans you’re about to grind. Remember when...
by Darren Luft | Feb 17, 2025 | Cultivation
Coffee doesn’t just appear magically in those fancy bags with letterpress labels and tasting notes that sound like a wine critic having a fever dream. Coffee grows in places. Real places! With real seasons! And if you want the good stuff – the really good...
by Darren Luft | Feb 16, 2025 | Roasting
Maybe you think you know about roasting coffee, about how heat transforms a green bean into something transcendent, but you don’t. Or maybe you do! Let’s find out. Maybe you’re one of those people who has spent countless hours hunched over a...
by Darren Luft | Feb 12, 2025 | Processing
Coffee processing is a generalized term involving a number of post-harvest steps. Significant among them is the fermentation stage. Here, I am exploring processing from the fermentation methods in common use. This article follows on from an earlier one entitled, The...
