Category: coffee

  • cough-ee, one

    cough-ee, one

    Ironic enough that I’m writing this at a Starbucks, but here I am, sipping a mint tea, and realizing that my days as a coffee drinker might be behind me. I gave up tea for the month of November and while we travelled in Japan. It was not because we went to Japan, mind you.

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  • Moka Express

    Moka Express

    Having ditched the pod machines and spent a solid year tuning and enjoying my pour over game, Santa was kind enough to bring me a moka pot for Christmas this year.

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  • Perfecting Pour Overs

    Opportunity? Or maybe a concerning symptom? I’ve all-too-often tapped into the nearly unlimited informtion pouring from the internet and found myself wandering into deep, dark caverns of complexity on a narrow and specific topic. The last couple months that topic has been coffee. Back in September I hinted that I had been dabbling in pour

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  • Short: Pour Over Coffee

    Maybe it was obvious, but those little coffee pods had their moment… and that moment has passed. At least, it has for me… And maybe it’s also obvious, but picking up a cheap little pour over cone (for roughly half the cost of a box of pods) has me making my afternoon cup in a

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  • Sweet Iced Coffee

    Here on the Canadian prairies the weather is as changeable as a simile about how changeable the weather can be. Just a few weeks ago there was snow on the ground. Today it is thirty degrees Celsius in the shade. That’s definitely not unbearable, nor unwelcome, but after a deep cold winter it can be

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