One of the benefits of having a coffee website is that occasionally people send you free things in exchange for publicly sharing your opinion. Recently Cafe Deluxe sent us one of their 1 liter Fr
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Cupping with Blueprint Coffee
By Eli Keel Louisville’s craft coffee scene got a swell treat when St. Louis’s Blueprint Coffee stopped by McQuixote Books and Coffee to share a taste of their line of artisanal offerin
Handground: the World’s First Crowdsourced Coffee Grinder
A new hand grinder is poised to change the way you brew coffee. Handground is the world’s first crowdsourced coffee grinder. Company founders Daniel Vitielo, Brandon Warman, and Joaquin Herle
Ghost Roasting with Nom de Plume Roasters
Opening a coffee roastery is a major operation. A good roaster can be more expensive than a new car, not to mention the cost of goods and infrastructure. But two young coffee professionals in Ph
You Should Be Following These 5 Baristas on Instagram
Perhaps the only thing better than sitting down with your first cup of coffee in the morning is living vicariously through a picture of someone else’s. Baristas tend to be creative types, so
You Can Back Flatlands Coffee on Kickstarter
One of the reasons we started the Coffee Compass was to bring attention to the many quality-focused cafes that are currently flying under the radar. Granted, the coffee scene in New York or London�
One Person Makes the Day of Hundreds of Strangers
At a random fast food restaurant, one person found a way to spend $535.50. While checking out, the person got plenty of nasty stares from the customers behind them, who were impatiently waiting. Ho
5 Reasons To Own a Coffee Scale
Lugging a myriad of coffee apparatuses with me to work raises quite a few eyebrows. Generally my coworkers find it all rather customary for brewing until they see my coffee scale. Introduce a scale