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A medium roast espresso blend of Guatemalan and Costa Rican specialty beans: milk chocolate, nutty, and rich, with enough sweetness to shine well beyond espresso.
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Coffee Crate's flagship everyday blend: medium-dark, Guatemalan and Colombian specialty beans, caramel and toasted ...
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Great coffee at home is a stack of small habits, not one big purchase. Ten tweaks, in order of payoff, with the why...
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Shops act like single origin is fancy and blends are the cheap seats. That's wrong. They're just different tools fo...
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Coffee has four enemies: air, light, heat, and moisture. Storage is just keeping them away from your beans. (And pl...
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Grind some fresh coffee and smell it. That cloud of aroma is flavor leaving the building. Here's why whole beans be...
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Tasting coffee isn't a magic talent, it's a skill, and it's mostly just slowing down enough to notice what your ton...
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Almost every cup of coffee comes from one of two plants. Knowing arabica from robusta makes you the smartest person...
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Light, medium, dark... what actually changes when beans roast longer? Less than you fear, more than you'd guess. An...
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Specialty coffee isn't a buzzword, it's a real, scored grade. Here's what the 80-point line actually means and why ...
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