Cafés & Events
Why Does Decaf Taste Worse at Coffee Shops?
Decaf on a cafe bar moves slower than anything else, so it sits open longer, shares a grinder, and gets dialed in once. Most of the gap is handling rather than decaffe...
Guide
Notes from the roastery: what we buy, how we roast it, and what we have learned building coffee programs on the Gulf Coast.
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Cafés & Events
How Often Should You Clean a Commercial Espresso Machine?
A component-by-component cleaning schedule for a cafe espresso machine, written against shots pulled and group count rather than against days.
Cafés & Events
Should a Coffee Shop Roast Its Own Coffee?
Why the per-pound saving that justifies in-house roasting mostly disappears at specialty green prices, and what actually decides the question.
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How Often Should You Replace Coffee Grinder Burrs?
Burrs and water filters wear out on volume, not on the calendar. Six months is the working number, and staggering them is what makes it actually happen.
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How Do You Switch Coffee Suppliers?
A cafe changeover is an operations project, not a purchase. What it costs your bar, the order to do it in, why an overlap week is worth buying, and the four places we ...
Cafés & Events
How to Sell Wholesale Coffee to Cafes
A cafe that already has a roaster is not comparing your coffee to theirs. It is weighing the cost of changing suppliers against not changing, and that is where most lo...
Roasting
How to Scale a Roast Profile to a Bigger Roaster
A roast curve records what one drum did on one day. When the production roaster is not yours, the thing you hand over is a specification instead.
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Can You Serve Coffee at a Trade Show Booth?
Almost every convention hall will let you pour coffee at your booth. What catches exhibitors is the filing calendar in the exhibitor kit, which closes weeks before the...
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How to Run a Blind Coffee Tasting
Every guide to blind tasting tells you how to set the comparison up, and none of them tells you how to end one. The decision rule has to be written down before the fir...
Roasting
When Should You Upgrade Your Coffee Roaster?
You've outgrown your roaster when your monthly volume needs more roast hours than your week can hold. Here is how to compute that threshold from two numbers you alread...
Roasting
What Has to Be on a Coffee Bag Label?
Federal law requires three things on a bag of coffee, and a fourth once it has more than one ingredient. 21 CFR 101.5 names three roles, and one of them is built for t...
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Why Is Coffee Inconsistent From Shift to Shift?
Every page ranking for this term tells a cafe owner how to be consistent and never how they would know they were not. Four things move under a fixed recipe, and none o...
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How Do You Standardize Coffee Shop Recipes?
Recipes rarely fail because staff ignore them. They fail when the bag changes and nobody rewrites the card. What belongs on a recipe card, in grams, and why the coffee...
