What you didn't know about Coffee
What you didn't know about Coffee
By following these 4 steps you will make as perfect a cup of coffee as possible. Refining your skills, through practice and experimentation, will improve your result even further based upon your personal preferences. Everyone has different preferences when it comes to how they like their coffee. By choosing to…
Luwak coffee, or Kopi Luwak as it is known here in Indonesia, is NOT the best coffee nor is it any different from coffee that the Luwak animal (Civet Cat) has NOT eaten and digested. I call it a scam. It has been hyped by the media, including the very…
My short answer is no……however, if you have a lot of time and patience you can buy green, unroasted, coffee, and store them in a cool, dry, place for 10 years. After that time, you can roast it and enjoy an amazingly great cup of coffee that has significantly less…
The two major tastes in a balanced cup of (black) coffee are bitter and sour with a balanced cup having an equal amout of both. An unbalanced cup would be either very bitter or very sour. Some people like their coffee mostly bitter, and some like it mostly sour (“bright”…
The best coffee experience is my daily ritual of roasting, grinding, brewing, and then drinking my coffee. This gives me the best tasting and most potent coffee possible. By potent, I am talking about the effects I feel in my brain and body……not due only to caffeine but also from…
Yes! Drinking coffee while on a Keto diet and while intermittent fasting is an excellent way to enhance coffee’s fat metabilizing and fat burning qualities. However you must drink it black with zero additives (sugar, cream, artificial sweeteners, etc.) in order to remain in a state of ketosis and in…
I was recently invited to come to Da Nang, Vietnam to give a presentation about coffee to the Toastmasters International organization there. From their website: Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our organization has more than 357,000 memberships. Members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one…
Recently I have been thinking a lot about how I can simplify and share my coffee knowledge with as many people as possible. My mission is to reach the masses, and spread the word that the biggest change someone can make in their daily coffee ritual is to roast, grind,…
Josh Estey is a well known professional photographer/videographer based out of Jakarta, Indonesia. He is American and originally from Florida. We met in 2010 at the Green School in Bali, Indonesia where our children were attending school. My first F.R.E.A.K. Cafe opened at the school in 2011 and after Josh, a passionate…
The history of coffee can be defined as a series of epochs (time periods), or “Waves”. Ever since the discovery of coffee some 1,300 years ago, as legends describe, coffee has evolved into the most widely used psychoactive substance on the planet. The early part of this evolution has focused…