There are countless options when it comes to buying a coffee mail order subscription. In this post, I’m going to list off a few coffee roasters that both excel at roasting coffee and operating a subscription service. Also, I’m going to provide some tips to help you find other roasters should the ones listed below […]
Things I Would Like to See Improved in Specialty Coffee (2017)
Before I go into what I see as the problems with specialty coffee, I will provide some background on myself. In addition to being the publisher of INeedCoffee, I am a huge fan of going to coffee shops. In the last ten years, I have been to several hundred different cafes, mostly in Seattle but […]
Making Cold Brew Coffee With the Primula Coffee Maker
Cold brew coffee continues to surge in popularity. Most coffee shops are offering cold brew options. But you don’t need to spend a lot of money in the cafes, because making cold brew coffee at home is easy. Save your cafe money for espresso based drinks. In this tutorial, we are going to make a […]
Red Espresso is Espresso Style Rooibos
I recently received something interesting to review. It is a product called Red Espresso. Red Espresso is a finely ground rooibos, which can be used to make a concentrated “espresso.” Before I begin the review, let us bring everyone up to speed on what rooibos is. Rooibos is not a coffee – nor, technically, is […]
An Easy Guide to Making Cold Brew Coffee
In an earlier article titled Cold Brew Coffee is Not Rocket Science, I outlined just how easy it was to make cold brew coffee at home. No matter how you tackle the task of making cold brew, it all breaks down to some basic steps: Grind coffee to a medium coarse to coarse setting. Place […]
How to Make Cascara Tea in a French Press
Cascara has been gaining popularity in coffee circles in the past few years and with Starbucks releasing their own Cascara Latte, soon the term cascara will become commonly known to many that frequent cafes or read coffee websites. Cascara is the dried outer skin of a coffee cherry. In Spanish cascara means peel or fruit skin. […]