Tips on getting better coffee from your electric home drip coffee maker
With most household electric coffee makers, the user often only has six variables they can adjust to improve the coffee: 1) the coffee quality; 2) the water quality; 3) the…
Water – the often unsuspected culprit
Water - the often unsuspected culprit
Our approach to brewing with an Aeropress
With all brewing methods, our goal is to discover simple, repeatable techniques that produce consistent good results. Our Aeropress technique combines immersion brewing, percolation (drip) brewing, and pressure. Before discussing…
Peaberry Coffee: Myths, Marketing, & Reality
Since we often carry Peaberry coffees on our menu, we wanted to take a few minutes to explain what “Peaberry coffee” is and is not. There are a lot of…
Chasing Unicorns: The Problem of Coffee Generalizations
We often see two extremes and both are based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of how coffee works. On the one hand, we have people contact us looking exclusively for coffee…
Reusable K-Cups
Since we have a number of customers who use reusable K-Cups to brew coffee, we thought we would do some testing and evaluation of them so that we could make…
K-Cups: Controversial Coffee
Offering K-Cups is a controversial subject in the speciality coffee industry as K-Cups are seen as prioritizing convenience over quality, but this is true of other brew methods as well. …
Our roasting philosophy
At Ketch Coffee Roasters, our passion is exploring the range of flavors inherent in coffee and cacao from around the world. For most coffee and cacao, this means manipulating how…
Before you grind . . .
While it is seldom disclosed by coffee roasters to consumers, it is possible for small rocks to make their way into roasted coffee. When coffee is processed at origin, it…
Look for the roast date
When purchasing coffee, look for the date the coffee was roasted—not the sale by date. If a coffee roaster does not label the package with the date the coffee was…