Coffee
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Espresso Extraction 101: Why Your Shot Tastes Sour
If your home espresso has been tasting sharp, sour, or weirdly thin, the news is good: it’s almost never the beans. It’s almost always extraction. Here’s the short, no-jargon version of what’s happening in your cup and what to change first. Espresso is just water pushed through ground coffee under pressure. The water dissolves flavor…
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Single-Origin Spotlight: This Season’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
The bag on the pour-over bar this month is something we’ve been chasing for almost a year. It’s a washed Yirgacheffe from the Kochere district in southern Ethiopia, roasted light enough to keep its personality and just dark enough to round the edges. If you’ve ever wondered why coffee people get weird about origin, this…