Cold Brew French Toast (the best french toast ever)
On special mornings (usually Saturdays) I’ll switch up my breakfast routine replace my eggs with french toast. The other morning I really switched it up though - I added cold brew to my french toast. Here’s the recipe to change your life too!
Amazon.ca Prime Day Deals
Canadians often get the short end of the proverbial (hockey) stick, but not this Prime Day! Amazon.ca is hooking up Canadian coffee drinkers with some great deals, and here are some of my favourites…
Rooftop Coffee Roasters | #todayimbrewing
Nestled in the Elk Valley of beautiful British Columbia, Rooftop Coffee Roasters is carving a path for themselves in the Canadian coffee industry. Excited and inspired by the spectrum of flavours that coffee has to offer, the folks at Rooftop are roasting carefully curated single origin coffees in a way that accentuates all that each coffee has to offer.
Father's Day Gift Guide 2019: Sales on Specialty Coffee Gear
Your dad needs to step up his coffee game. I don’t know him, but I do know it’s true. My dad has a strong coffee game, but only because I started buying him specialty coffee gear. Here are some great sales this Father’s Day from some of my favourite specialty coffee brands!
Coffee Travel Kit ESSENTIALS
I’m on the go what feels like all the time, but there’s no reason to break routine and settle for less than great coffee. From the black sand beaches of Iceland to the dry lake beds of the desert in California, this travel kit ensures that I’m ready to brew anywhere, anytime. Here are my travel coffee essentials that you may already have in your kitchen, and how I use them on the road!
Fellow Atmos
How can you slow down the natural oxidation process to ensure that you can drink your entire bag of coffee before it goes stale? Well some will suggest that you freeze it, others will tell you to put it an airtight container, but if your like most common coffee drinkers you’ll likely just leave it in the bag you bought it in…
Ethiopia Guji | #todayimbrewing
It was a welcome surprise to find this coffee in my mailbox, as it was my first opportunity to try an offering from Café Pista of Montreal, Canada. This cup is tremendously clean and overtly fruity, bursting with peach and orange.
My Top 5 Coffee Related Instagram Accounts 2019
One of the world’s most beloved apps isn’t a vice for me, it’s a vocation. I’m not spending my time watching memes or cat videos, instead I’m connecting with other creatives and professionals to craft educational content for the specialty coffee world. Instagram has actually done more to add to my life and my work than it has to take away from it, and I think that’s due to the people I choose to follow.
Burundi Nemba | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing a natural Burundi from the Kayanza Province, roasted by Canadian power-duo Lüna Coffee. Laura and Nate are the two that make up this western Canadian roaster, and although they’ve only been roasting as Lüna for just over a year, they’re no strangers to the Canadian coffee industry…
Brazil Sitio Lavrinha | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing a natural Brazillian coffee from prominent Toronto powerhouse, De Mello Palheta. De Mello has become a Toronto staple over the course of the last few years, stocking and serving cafés all over the city.
Kenya Ngerwe | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing a juicy Kenyan Ngerwe from Tipico Coffee in Buffalo, NY. I remember the first time I stumbled upon Tipico a few years ago, it was like finding a diamond in the rough…
Burundi Nemba | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing an interesting coffee from Burundi, roasted in Toronto by the folks at Propeller Coffee. From the Nemba station in the Kayanza Province, these beans were grown on trees at 1818masl and processed naturally…
Costa Rica Sumava | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing an interesting coffee from Costa Rica roasted by Rosso Coffee Roasters of Calgary, Alberta. What makes this coffee unique is the process - in this case it’s an anaerobic honey process…
Ameuus Aeropress Filters
What’s the problem with those standard paper filters? They do a great job of filtering out sediment and sludge from the final cup, but they don’t allow precious coffee oils through. In addition they aren’t…
Ethiopia Sidamo | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing an Ethiopian coffee roasted by one of my Canadian favourites, Seth Taylor. It’s an heirloom variety grown at a considerable height of 2100 metres above sea level in the famed region of Sidamo…
Stepping Into Specialty Coffee
I didn’t know anything from anything when I started brewing specialty coffee. How could I? It’s like starting anything new - the learning curve is steep and you just don’t know what you don’t know…
Kenya Gaturiri AA | #todayimbrewing
Today I’m brewing a light and delicate Kenyan from Canadian roaster, Kaito. I first had this coffee in December of 2018, and it was one of my most memorable coffees of the year…
Neo Coffee Bar | Toronto
There wasn’t a vacant seat in the whole café as young parents, studying singles, and café hoppers alike made home of this bustling bar. Although the baristas were working quickly to get orders fulfilled, they weren’t cutting corners…
Specialty instant coffee?
Spoiler alert: instant coffee doesn’t suck. Well, most of it does. But there are a few companies and roasters working hard to innovate in the instant coffee space to insure that you can brew a great cup no matter how you do it…
Lion Coffee | St. Clair West
Hazel and Mitch and Lion Coffee are the personification of the kind of shops I love to see popping up around the city. Young, zealous entrepreneurs who have a passion for coffee and people...