Here’s a quick & dirty, How-To on making a good cup of coffee…

1) Grind coffee immediately before brewing
2) Grind coffee to the proper fineness, as dictated by the brewing method (grinding details, below)
3) 2 tablespoons of ground coffee for every 6 ounces of water
4) Use fresh, cool, good tasting water
5) Heat water to 195 – 205 degrees Fahrenheit
6) Do not allow water to contact coffee grinds for more than 4 minutes (espresso and cold brew are exceptions)

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RESPECT THOSE BEANS!

If you think it’s difficult brewing a good cup of coffee, have you ever considered the difficulties your beans had to endure before reaching your hands?

From mountain slopes half way around the globe, your beans endured an arduous journey, a journey which most likely included:

• Surviving the whimsy of nature, just like any other agricultural product
• If not mechanically harvested, each bean was hand picked and hand sorted– one… bean… at a time
• Various methods of processing / cleaning where many things could have gone wrong
• Political unrest and sometimes armed guerrillas
• Journeys via beast of burden as well as a huge overseas freighter
• And lastly, the use of hundreds-of-thousands (if not millions) of dollars worth of roasting and packaging equipment

This remarkable effort takes place every day so consumers can have access to the finest quality, and freshest coffee beans in the world.  Yet all this effort can literally be destroyed in the final yard, in your kitchen– under your supervision!