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Blending Water Some Important Math to Help You Mix Waters of Different TDS Tasting Room Director Sandra Elisa Loofbourow and I recently ran into a difficult problem to solve at the Crown, and wanted to share some of the work it took to figure out how to mix two different waters to achieve a desired […]

Comparing Common Coffee Brewers – Part II By Nate Lumpkin, Crown Barista As you all know, everything’s closed down for a little while to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, and the Crown is doing its part by staying closed. In the meantime, I have a lot of time on my hands. I’ve been […]

How To: Brewing Coffee at Home Without A Scale By Bolor Erdenebat, Crown Barista As a barista working at a well equipped café, I can’t imagine myself brewing or pulling an espresso shot without a scale. It tells us exactly how much water and coffee we are using, and it enables us to be consistent […]

Making Iced Coffee At Home By Nate Lumpkin, Crown Barista The good news is that cold coffee is extremely easy to make, even if you have limited tools and equipment. Here are a couple methods you can use to make cheap, delicious, and easy cold coffee at home. FRENCH PRESS Of all the kinds of […]

By Nate Lumpkin, The Crown Barista As you all know, everything’s closed down for a little while to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, and the Crown is doing its part by staying closed. In the meantime, I have a lot of time on my hands. I’ve been curious about all the different drippers […]

The Problem with Plastic (and single use cups) Part I: Our Plastic Reality I am lucky enough to know some real, sweat-and-blood environmental activists, or environmental warriors. These are people who live zero-waste and plastic-free lifestyles, who organize beach clean-ups, protest for water rights, eat vegan and create turtle sanctuaries; people who work tirelessly to […]

Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on September 15 and  September 18, 2018. By Sandra Elisa Loofbourow Lately, I’ve been writing about how people dress up their coffee in various parts of the world, as well as how people consumed caffeine before the advent […]

Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on September 15 and  September 18, 2018. By Chris Kornman & Sandra Elisa Loofbourow Part I – Green Coffee Extract was the First Wave By Chris Kornman In Yemen’s port of Aden around the middle of the 15th […]

There is a wealth of diversity in the way people prepare and consume coffee around the world. The cultural exchange that comes out of international interaction, and especially out of colonization, creates new traditions like Café de Olla, a Mexican beverage I’ve written about previously. These new traditions take snippets of the participating cultures’ culinary […]