Articles tagged: coffee

Food & Drink: How to brew French press coffee at home

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Posted: Jun 08, 2011

My last few posts have dealt with some of the basic mechanics of brewing great coffee —specifically, grinding and blooming. What do you say we get into an actual brewing method? The French press is ... Read more »

Former U-M students help Honduran farming community make coffee more 'local'

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Posted: Jun 06, 2011

From left: Union Microfinanza employee Mike DeWit, UMF employee Gilberto Barrientos, farmer Tito Paz and UMF employee Patrick Hughes. UMF provides farmers a way out of poverty through small microloans of tools and supplies. After ... Read more »

A small, simple step toward better coffee

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Posted: May 25, 2011

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: It’s very easy to brew excellent coffee at home. The difference between a clear, well-balanced, complex cup and dirty bitter water lies simply in attention to ... Read more »

Food & Drink: Grinding your coffee for the best possible cup

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Posted: May 18, 2011

Welcome to the first entry of The Barista’s Kitchen, a series of posts each focusing on a different technique or piece of equipment accessible to the home-based coffee enthusiast. It’s my goal not just to ... Read more »

recipe: Cool off this summer with cold brewed coffee

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Posted: May 13, 2011

Well, Ann Arbor, we made it. After an extremely long and dark winter, it’s finally summer. In fact, yesterday was outright hot. And while a lot of us coffee drinkers will stick doggedly to our ... Read more »