After a gruelling campaign that saw Bold As Love being crowned the Latte champion, our competitors are back for another round. This time, they will be battling it out for Americano supremacy.
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Test driving four different V60 coffee recipes: Tetsu, Cafec, Onyx, Hoffmann
I’ve been using the Tetsu 4-6 recipe daily for almost a year, but recently started wondering how it stacks up against popular alternatives. The best way to find out would be to try it out myself.
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The time has come to upgrade our baseline coffee beans
Looks like it’s goodbye, old friend. Thank you for your service, and for all the happy caffeine memories.
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Comparing paper and metal filters for V60 pour over coffee
The key difference lies in the trade-off between clarity and body. If you prefer clean and bright pour over coffee, then paper filters are the way to go. But if you like heavier-bodied brews with a syrupy mouthfeel, then you’d enjoy using metal filters more.
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Welcome to the Jewel Coffee Nespresso capsule elimination tournament!
Join us as we kick off our inaugural tournament featuring eight highly caffeinated competitors. The action will be heated and the pressure intense, as they engage in furious battle to decide who will reign supreme.
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My latte art journey with the Nespresso Creatista Plus
I remember thinking, just before I started, that it can’t possibly be that difficult to pour steamed milk into espresso to make simple shapes. All I’d need was a steady hand and consistent movements, right?
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I’m seriously tempted by Nylon Coffee’s monthly filter subscription
The subscription coffees are usually posted on their Instagram page upon release, and recent ones from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya and Honduras look quite interesting and attractive. Both The Wife and I would have particularly enjoyed the Ethiopia Kedir Bali that was offered earlier this January.
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One year of V60 coffee with freshly roasted beans from local roasters
During the past year, we sampled widely across various country origins, coffee varietals and processing methods. Here’s what we found after trying 33 different coffees from 9 local Singaporean roasters.
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Three weeks of Panama Gesha beans from Finca Santa Teresa
During a micro-lot auction held at the Singapore International Coffee Convention in July 2021, the highest bid of US$77 per kilogram was recorded for Gesha beans grown by Finca Santa Teresa in Panama.
After you factor in mark-ups for distribution, storage, roasting, packaging and retail, it’s not surprising that a bag of freshly-roasted beans can sell for upwards of S$40 per 250gm.
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Quick and easy way to generate a bar chart race using Python
Hot off the heels of some geospatial visualisation that I built using global coffee production data in 2020, I wanted to see if I could use all the data available from 1991-2020 to render a bar chart race. It turned out to be surprisingly simple. Here’s what I did.
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