5 Crime against coffee

Blue Bottle Cafe in San Francisco and New York are famous for the phenomenal House-roasted coffee, prepared with meticulous methods used. But founder James Freeman said that avoiding home Brewers only common mistakes, not much, it take to brew a great Cup at home. He says "people think it is so hard and difficult, but a few simple things can really make a big difference,". Here, Freeman explains how to work around the five worst crimes against coffee. In the face of his perfection, that they are to commit several of them chances. Blue bottle coffee founder James Freeman. Photo © clay McLachlan / ClayPix.com.

"Make sure to choose coffee with a roast, not" best by "date. Preferably should then no longer than a week ago. Then you consume, share it with friends, or buy smaller bags so that you move quickly through them. Sometimes lightly roasted coffee can be good for a few weeks after the opening, but generally fresher is better."

"Buy whole bean coffee. Ground coffee is obsolete really easily. Purchase a grinder is not so difficult: it is less expensive and not so long. If you blade grinder do the pulse-shake method for a cheapo, I think you're still better than buying the coffee, which was sitting in a pocket for a week or God knows how long. And there are better options that are cheaper - Xeslana Porlex, Zassenhaus, Baratza make some good Mills, which aren't that expensive. "

"Buy no coffee pot with a plug. If you're going to have coffee, make it yourself. It is the symbolic level: you want to trust something as important to a machine? And then there are the nails layer, that is, make almost any machine not very good coffee. "I love the gloss, the smoothness, the cleanliness, the a good casting-about a fabric filter or a paper filter."

"Rely not on your eye and not exclusively by volumetric measurements - they are just not right. Buy a scale and weigh your coffee, weigh your water. You'll be so much more control over your brewery. ratio"

"Buy any national brand if you can avoid it. We are happy that many people want to have delivered to our coffee, but I think more and more people that open small roasters and do interesting things. "They are less suitable to see coffee as a commodity and more inclined, to see it as something is precious and has been maintained carefully, if it is far away to built his in your cup arrival."

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