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16/05/2025

Brewed Balance

For Life. For Coffee.

Coffee lovers know this truth well:

A great cup is never rushed.

It's a dance of contrasts - heat and cool, strength and smoothness, bitterness and sweetness.

Just like life.

Balance isn't just a brewing technique

It's a philosophy.

Too much pressure, and you burn out.

Too little, and the joy never extracts.

Life, like coffee, tastes best when you know how to measure, when to pause, when to pour, and when to simply let things bloom.

So today, don't just drink your coffee. Feel it. Learn from it. Live it.

Because your best cup like your best self is always found in balance.

At Coffee, we help baristas, roasters - and everyday coffee lovers - find their balance, in every cup and in life.

Because a well-brewed coffee is more than flavor. It's a mindset.

What does balance mean to you in coffee or in life? Drop your thoughts and tag someone on their own journey to a better brew.

28/01/2024

I believe that what I see in a curve is just a shadow, like the man in the cave. What I believe is happening inside is not the whole truth, just a reading of temperature around the probes. I would never follow the visual rate of rise (which can be named more accurately “average rate of change” because is not a straight line). I’ll just check the number as like an speedometer. I picture every coffee as a different road and I would drive in different ways.

23/10/2023

Common defects in green coffee beans

Therefore, for Specialty Coffee producers, there is always a stage of inspection and sorting out defects before sending the product to customers. This stage can be done by machine or by hand.

24/09/2023

The coffee should not be too cool when roasting, since small craters can burst out of the beans if the difference in temperature is too high.

23/09/2023

Roasting time visualized !

19/09/2023

What does fully washed mean?


For fully-washed beans, first of all, once picked the cherries are put in water in order to separate them out. The ripe ones will sink, whereas the poor ones will float. Then, the skin of the cherry and some of the pulp is removed from each individual bean by pressing it through a screen using a machine

18/09/2023

What is the secret of coffee?

Caffeine is a well-known stimulant and some 80% of the caffeine in a typical Many of the benefits we expect from coffee are from its caffeine. Caffeine is what helps wake us up, increases energy, improves concentration, and helps us exercise longer and harder.

16/09/2023

Coffee in all shapes and sizes !

16/09/2023

Between the unripe coffee cherries you can see the approach of a baby cherry.

27/04/2023

24/04/2023

What is the wet washed method?
The wet process (also called "washed") requires the use of specialized equipment and significant amounts of water. Done correctly, the inner qualities of coffee beans are better preserved in this form of treatment and lead to a more homogeneous green coffee, which produces less defective beans.

14/04/2023

How long does coffee take to dry?
Drying coffee solely by patio takes 6-7 days for washed coffees, 8-9 days for pulped naturals (semi-washed), and 12-14 days for natural (dry-processed) coffees. This is why coffee beans are typically dried on a patio until they reach a moisture content of 15% and are then transferred to mechanical dryers.

Natural drying remains the best method in terms of quality and taste. The aim is to achieve uniform drying of the crop. Even the direction of movement of workers when turning the coffee makes a great difference. If the coffee is turned in the direction of the sun's rays, the coffee does not develop a shaded side and dries more evenly and quickly.

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