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Coffee Fermentation Isn’t Good Microbes vs Bad Microbes
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE · MICROBES & FERMENTATION A better way to understand coffee fermentation is as a changing ecosystem. When I first started trying to understand fermentation,…
Coffee Roasting Thermodynamics – A Beginner’s Attempt to Understand What Is Actually Happening
Coffee roasting thermodynamics: a beginner’s attempt to understand heat While researching the move from my Gene Café CBR-301 to the Kaleido M2, I kept coming across…
Coffee Water Calculator — Beta
ORAT tool · brewing water Coffee Water Calculator A practical calculator for building repeatable brewing water from low-mineral water and simple mineral additions. Beta Recipe helper…
From Seed to Cup – How Coffee Is Shaped
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE / FRUIT & SEED What is a coffee bean? Before coffee is green, roasted, ground or brewed, it is a seed growing inside a…
How Coffee Gets Its Price, From the Farm Gate to the C Market and Specialty Coffee
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE · ECONOMICS How Coffee Gets Its Price, From the Farm Gate to the C Market and Specialty Coffee Coffee pricing confused me for a…
How I Cup Coffee (and the Simple Cupping Form I Use)
This note supports a short video where I show how I cup coffee at home, and why I keep the process intentionally simple. Cupping is often…
Microbes & Fermentation
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE → MICROBES & FERMENTATION Microbes & Fermentation Yeasts, bacteria, changing environments and the surprisingly complicated biology between coffee fruit and green bean. Fermentation makes…
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