V12 Cold Immersion is made with roasted coffee and filtered water. We coarsely grind the coffee and submerge it in cold filtered water for 24 hours. We keep the mixture refrigerated throughout the brew cycle. We extract the nectar using…
Cafe Moto and owner Torrey Lee are featured in an interesting article in the Coronado Eagle & Journal. Author Kel Casey sits down with Torrey to talk coffee and gets charged up about all the businesses in Coronado serving Cafe…
Putla, Mexico is a small village fairly remote region outside Oaxaca. The coop has purchased some chickens and goats for additional food security projects and are making upgrades to the cupping lab with some of the Free Trade premiums. We…
Check out this video! Learn how water is critical to brewing the perfect cup of coffee.
The Hario V60 Coffee Dripper is one of the most popular manual brewers in the specialty coffee field today, found in many brew bars around the country. The design of this pour-over has ridges along it’s innards and a single…
The Siphon (or Vacuum) Coffee Maker brews by using two chambers where vapor pressure and vacuum produce the finished coffee. The use of this brewing method can be traced back to the 1830’s where one of the first patents filed…
The Toddy is the ultimate coffee maker. In 1964, as a chemical engineering graduate of Cornell, Todd Simpson developed and patented a cold brew system that, using regular Arabica coffee beans, creates a superior-tasting cup of steaming HOT coffee. And,…
The first Coffee Press, which may have been made in France, was a metal or cheesecloth screen fitted to a rod that users would press into a pot of boiling water. The first patent for a Coffee Press was given…
The Chemex coffee-making system was developed by a chemist, Peter Schlumbohm in the early 1940′s. Using his authority in science as a sales tool, he described the product as "The Chemist’s way of making coffee … the funnel of the…
