Coffeegen
Coffee Information for the Mildly Obsessed
Coffeegen
Coffee Information for the Mildly Obsessed
Coffeegen helps coffee people learn coffee
The Book
Become a ridiculously good barista
If you’re in the business of making perfect coffee, this is your book.
The Book
Become a ridiculously good barista
If you’re in the business of making perfect coffee, this is your book.
Coffee for the Mildly Obsessed
The interactive barista manual available in several formats
Coffee for the Mildly Obsessed is for baristas, trainers of baristas, cafe owners and mildly obsessed coffee drinkers who need a go-to guide on all elements of serving a good cup of coffee.
Agronomy
Long before the roaster got her hands on the beans, the potential flavours were already set. Agronomy covers what happens before the beans become beans.
Agronomy
Long before the roaster got her hands on the beans, the potential flavours were already set. Agronomy covers what happens before the beans become beans.
The way you prepare your coffee has a large impact on the way it tastes. However, preparation is only the last domino that needs to fall in a long line of dominoes ...
The Blog
This blog covers a very biased look at cafes and coffee from someone who’s very particular about the taste of his coffee.
The Blog
This blog covers a very biased look at cafes and coffee from someone who’s very particular about the taste of his coffee.
agoodkeensavage
“I was breast-fed espresso. As I got older I was allowed to drink other brew methods, and roast coffee, and open cafes. My main passion in coffee is the cafe. I love the design, construction, food and atmosphere of good independent cafes.”
Building a cafe and roastery for £12k
When I started my first cafe in Edinburgh I had £12 000 to spend. That included the cost of the roasting machine. With the ongoing cost of the rent taken into account, I figured I had a couple of weeks in which to build the cafe before the money would run out. Then my business partner left town to go sailing in the Greek Islands for three weeks ...
The eMyth of the Cafe Business
Most self-help books seem like poor attempts to create a cult. They have one idea and spend 10 chapters of poor prose iterating the same point with different stories about really clever, successful people who are united only by their adherence to the one idea and the smugness of their smiles. The book promises to make you one of tem if only you follow the path of the guru and ...
Barista training workshops don’t work, so what will?
All the baristas working at my cafes sit an exam (here’s a link to it). Most fail the first time round and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. The modern barista has to mentally wrestle with concepts that include knowledge of physics, chemistry and fluid dynamics ...
Brewing Methods Poster
Brewing Methods Poster
Three brewing methods and all the main variables on one page
I've always preferred things on one sheet...
Ever since I first started studying properly, I've preferred to get it all the information on one piece of paper so I can get an 'aerial view' of the subject. When I asked Nick Wright to make a poster to encompass the whole of the first chapter of the barista manual, he asked me to come up with a rough outline of what I was after – his job, after all, is making things look pretty, not teaching coffee.
I spent a week attempted to force coffee theory into one page. Because the variables interact with one another, I considered the best format to be radial with a cup of coffee like a nucleus surrounded by elections of variables in different shells. Nick rightly thought this to be daft and drew three lines with Immersion, Drip and Pressure at the top. He was right and it was obvious that this was the best way to present the information, after all, the three methods have a lot in common.
After several weeks in the crucible of iterative design, the finished poster didn't just encapsulate the first chapter of the book; it forced me to re-write it.
You can get this page of distillated coffeegen in the form of a poster printed in the US of A and sent to wherever you are reading this. By simply putting it on the wall of your cafe, the number of repeat customers for coffee will increase dramatically or, at the very least, it'll cover up the spot where the wallpaper is peeling.
The poster is 18 x 24" (457 x 610 mm), which is a bit bigger than A2, and is printed on archival acid-free paper like the fancy ones in the museum. It'll cost you $15 plus shipping.