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What even IS Coffee? Basics of Brewing
By Bethany Letoto
Brewing coffee doesn’t have to be mysterious, scary, or frustrating. Once you understand the basics of what’s happening when you brew a cup of coffee, you’ll be equipped to make good coffee with any setup.Read more → -
If Miles Davis Roasted Coffee...
By Three Keys Roaster
If Miles Davis roasted coffee, it’d taste like a style and flavor that’s never existed before...thankfully we have that covered! There’s a perfect blend to the sounds of jazz and a freshly brewed cup of Three Keys.Read more → -
What Even IS Coffee? Roasting
By Bethany Letoto
Different roast curves will bring out different flavors in the coffee – it’s much more complicated than just x temperature for y time! It’s x temperature plotted over y time for the entire duration of the roast, and variations at any point can and will affect the final flavor profile. (It is possible to chart your curve on an old-fashioned graph paper, but most roasters these days opt for software to plot the curves during the roast since it allows collection of more types of data.)Read more → -
If Nina Simone Roasted Coffee...
By Three Keys Roaster
If Nina roasted coffee… her roasts would be fearless and daring. They would reflect unapologetic creativity and passion yet always strive to make the next roast better than the previous.Read more → -
What even IS Coffee? Processing Methods
By Bethany Letoto
Welcome to the third edition of our series where we unearth answers to the question… What even IS Coffee, anyway? In our last two posts, we covered a general overview of what coffee is, and dug deeper into coffee’s growing regions and harvest protocols. Today, we’re going to explore what happens to the coffee between harvest and export. Strap in, y’all! It’s time to learn about Processing. After harvest, coffee is typically sorted by hand to remove cherries that are underripe, overripe, or defective, and to remove detritus like sticks, leaves, bugs, etc. Then the coffee moves on to processing....
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If Dizzy Gillespie Roasted Coffee...
By Three Keys Roaster
Dizzy’s lifelong respect for the music was evident. In 1985 Dizzy was recorded on NPR’s All Things Considered saying, “Music is so deep, and so vast, that one person only gets to skimming off the top. And there’s a whole lot under the bottom that’s still there for discovery.”
We find ourselves feeling the same way about coffee– a lifetime of learning will always lead to new discoveries around the next bend.
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