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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.

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. 

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.)

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.

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...

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.

This time we’re going to dive deeper into the areas of the world where coffee is grown. Most coffee roasters loosely organize their green coffee buying by three major regions-- Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Naturally, since those are literally three continents, each of those regions have limited areas where coffee grows best.

When I became a part of this wonderful company, Three Keys Coffee, I was charged with helping to tie coffee to the Jazz world, which I’ve lived in for the past couple of decades. This playlist hopes to reflect the radical hope, energy and quiet beauty (blues) found in wrestling with social issues through an art form. We hope that our Honduras Smooth Horn Blues coffee and the corresponding playlist help uplift your mood and empower you to be you and to be free.

Welcome to the first installment of our new educational blog series where we address the question: What even is coffee, anyway?

We’ve compiled some of our favorite coffee tools in budget and investment options, so whether you’re looking to splurge on your auntie or just get a little something for your office secret Santa, we’ve got you covered.

Love is a powerful thing. The world needs more of it. That feeling is healthy to us all, and this coffee reflects that on so many levels. We joine...

Regardless of chosen brew method, the bean must always eventually find its way from a whole bean form into a ground form. So why not always buy ground coffee? Why would people buy whole beans? The answer comes down to freshness and shelf life.