Coaltown Coffee - Home-Brewing Guides

The Role of Milk in Coffee

By Ffion Davies   It might be a basic product, but milk in coffee is a contentious thing. A lot of coffee professionals frown upon consuming coffee with milk, arguing that it can mask the natural ...

Home Brewing Guide: Using Your Coffee Syphon

While syphon coffee brewers may have only recently become a trend, the method has been around since the mid 1800s when people started to experiment with vacuum and vapour pressures. Syphon brewers...

Experimenting with Brew Recipes and Grind Size

Brewing coffee is all about using water to dissolve soluble flavour compounds in coffee grounds. This process is called osmosis. 28-30% of coffee is soluble, but we should be aiming to extract arou...

Getting the most out of your cafetiere...

  By Ffion Davies. The cafetiere has been one of the most widely-used home brewing methods since it was modified and gained traction in the French coffee market in the late twenties. Its popularity...

Learning about CHEMEX Home Brewing - A beginners Guide

By Ffion Davies. With the increasing demand for great coffee at home, we have seen a rise in people asking how we feel about alternative brew methods, and how they differ from more popular, tradit...