Coffee Knowledge
How do you store coffee beans correctly? Containers, location, fridge or freezer, roast date and best-before date explained – and how to tell if your coffee has lost its aroma.
Stovetop espresso maker, step by step: How to correctly dose water, coffee, and heat, the right grind size, James Hoffmann's method for avoiding bitter coffee, and help with common mistakes.
The same bean can taste bitter, sour, or truly delicious, and often the difference lies in just one grinder setting. The grind size determines how quickly the water extracts flavors...
You’ve bought good beans, put them in your fully automatic machine, and the coffee still tastes flat, sour, or bitter. This doesn't have to be a reflection of quality. A...
Fresh beans, proper grind, exact dose—and yet the filter coffee tastes flat. Round, but missing the fruit mentioned on the bag. In Munich, it’s worth taking a look at something...
When calculated per kilo, supermarket coffee usually costs significantly less than coffee from a specialty roastery. Both are coffee. Nevertheless, the cups often taste very different. The difference lies primarily...
A hand filter is quick to buy: a filter, paper, hot water, done. Nevertheless, the first cup often tastes different than expected. Sometimes sour and thin, sometimes bitter and heavy....
A good espresso is dense, sweet, and has a pleasant acidity. A bad one is sour, bitter, or watery—sometimes all within the same week. This is rarely due to one...