The all-new Tally Pro Scale from Fellow Products
Today Fellow Products dropped their most recent product for your home coffee bar, the Tally Pro Precision Scale. I’ve been using it for a few weeks already, so here are a few of my thoughts.
How To Get Your Grinder To Grind Better
Good grinders are primarily defined by this one thing - good particle distribution. When brittle beans are broken by two toothy burrs, your coffee is essentially busted up into an array of little pieces. Some will be smaller, some larger, but hopefully most of them will be about the same size. Need helping getting better performance from your current grinder? Here’s how.
Coffee Varieties: An Introduction
There are over 100 species of the coffea plant, a flowering tree belonging to the Rubiaceae family. Of course, you know a subset of these fruit-bearing shrubs as the coffee plant. Ready to learn more?
How To Keep Your Coffee Fresher For Longer
Coffee is a perishable food item, fighting against time and other elements of our wild world to maintain its integrity and flavour. If you’re investing in high quality coffee you want it to last for as long as possible, I get that. Here’s how to keep your coffee fresher for longer without storing it in an Atmos canister or vacuum sealing and freezing it.
How To Dial In A Pour Over Coffee
I hope you’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a dialled-in cup of coffee. It’s that one that explodes with flavours of blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate, taking you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane. It’s euphoric for sure, but getting into that sweet spot isn't always easy.
What if we told you that it's not as hard as you think it is?
Mahlkönig X54 Allround Coffee Grinder - A Unicorn?
I can’t confirm whether or not unicorns exist, but I can confidently say I’ve never seen one. I’ve never seen a home coffee grinder that can capably grind for espresso brewing and coarse filter brewing, but the new Mahlkönig X54 Allround grinder is as close to a unicorn as I’ll ever see.
How To Describe Flavor Notes in Coffee
Have you ever been disappointed by a coffee because you didn’t taste the flavor notes on the bag? That’s because taste is subjective, and it depends entirely on your personal experiences. Let’s learn how to talk about taste together.
Holiday Gift Guide For A Coffee Lover (2022 Edition)
These are the best gifts on the internet for the coffee lover in your life, and any one of us would be happy to find these under the tree this year!
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte (specialty edition!)
The calendar says we have a couple more weeks of summer, but we all know it’s truly fall. September is the best month, and we all just have to accept it. If you’re reading this you’re either unashamedly about that #PSL life, shocked that I’m writing about them, or both. Either way, this recipe is gives you permission to drink your pumpkin spice lattes without shame and without regret.
Fellow Shimmy - The Savior to your Sad Grinder
There are so many variables that contribute to how your coffee tastes when you’re brewing it by hand, but one of, if not the most influential variable is your grind size. And not just your grind size, but your grind particle distribution - how even your coffee is ground. Shimmy helps improve the grind particle distribution of any grinder!
How To Clean Your Coffee Grinder
It’s essential that you clean your grinder, not only for the quality of your cup but for the care of that hard working piece of machinery. Here's how I clean my grinder, but this will apply to most burr grinders out there!
How To Dial In Any Coffee (on any grinder!)
Regardless of what you’re grinding coffee with at home, whether it’s a burr grinder, blade grinder, or mortar and pestle, your grind size is arguably the most influential variable on how your coffee will taste. That’s why when it comes to dialing in a coffee, grind size is just about the only variable you should need to adjust. Here’s my method for how I dial in any coffee on any brew method with any grinder!
Cascara, what is it?
Did you know that coffee beans are actually the seed of a cherry-like fruit? It’s true, the toasted brown beans you grind and brew are the pair of seeds found at the centre of a coffee cherry. Similar to the summertime cherries you know and love, coffee cherries have a sweet and often red skin. If only the seeds are harvested to be ground in your kitchen, what happens to the actual fruit?
My Favourite Glass Server
I brew into a server for the same reasons you decant a nice red wine. Giving your coffee a swirl and a sniff before you pour it into your drinking mug serves it well by introducing some oxygen into it aerating the beverage. The sniff helps to calibrate my senses before I even take a sip, setting my expectations for what I'm about to taste. It also helps to cool your drink down a few degrees so you can enjoy it sooner - who wouldn't want that?
Iced Aeropress Recipe (it's better than cold brew)
I prefer this flashed chilled iced coffee method over any cold brew. Brewing hot and pressing over top of large chunks of ice, each drop of hot coffee gets flashed chilled in an instant on impact. The result is a cold cup with big character, not sacrificing any of the sweetness or acidity that you should love in your coffee.
Homemade Coffee Soda
I’m so excited to share this post with you because I found out that making homemade coffee soda was easier than I assumed it would be. It took a little bit of tinkering but this coffee soda recipe is easy enough that anyone can craft it at home and still feel good about drinking it!
Beautiful Bag Design
Whether we like to admit it, a lot of us judge books by their covers. I’m unashamedly a sucker for aesthetics so I know I’m doing it all the time. Everything from book covers to package design, from print elements to web assets - I have an eye for it all. Design isn’t divorced from coffee either, and you’ve likely seen some bags that seem to stand out amongst the rest.
BIPOC Stories - Gio Fillari
Inspired by this cultural moment and the Black Lives Matter movement, I started a series of Instagram posts to share the stories of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour in coffee. This is the story of Giovanni Fillari.
BIPOC Stories - LaNisa Williams
Inspired by this cultural moment and the Black Lives Matter movement, I started a series of Instagram posts to share the stories of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour in coffee. This is the story of LaNisa Williams.
BIPOC Stories - Cydni Patterson
Inspired by this cultural moment and the Black Lives Matter movement, I started a series of Instagram posts to share the stories of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour in coffee. This is Cydni’s story.