03 Oct 2026What Is a Microlot?
Ten bags. That is the working size of a microlot in James Hoffmann's The World Atlas of Coffee: typically ten export sacks of 60 or 69 kg or fewer,...
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Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
03 Oct 2026What Are Past Crop and Current Crop?
Coffee ages on two separate clocks, and the words on this page belong to the slower one. Current crop, also called new or fresh crop, is green coff...
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05 Sep 2026When to Stop Drinking Coffee Before Bed
The two o'clock rule gets repeated so confidently that most people assume a study produced it. None did. What exists underneath the folklore is a s...
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22 Aug 2026Every Grind Size, Matched to Every Brewer
A grind chart is the most requested document in home coffee and the least useful one you will ever be handed. Every chart speaks in words. Medium-f...
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22 Aug 2026How Long Coffee Stays Fresh, By Format
Buying coffee in small amounts costs more per kilogram and forces you to think about it every fortnight. Buying a large bag costs less and guarante...
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18 Aug 2026Coffee Does Not Dehydrate You
The advice sounds responsible, which is most of the reason it survives. One glass of water for every cup of coffee, because the coffee does not cou...
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08 Aug 2026Peaberry Is a Shape, Not a Grade
The peaberry premium is one of the few things in coffee that everybody in the chain has a reason to keep. The producer gets a higher price for bean...
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08 Aug 2026Green Coffee Does Not Keep Forever
Green coffee is sold as the patient option. It travels in jute across an ocean and then sits in a warehouse for months while nobody worries about i...
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08 Aug 2026Never the Fridge: The One Storage Rule Everyone Gets Backwards
The fridge feels like the careful choice. It is cold, it is dark, it shuts properly, and every other perishable thing in the house already lives th...
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08 Aug 2026Kaldi and the Dancing Goats: A Very Good Story
You have heard this one. An Ethiopian goatherd called Kaldi notices his goats leaping about after eating the red berries of a particular shrub, tri...
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05 Aug 2026You Can Freeze Coffee. Here Is How to Do It Right
For twenty years the standard advice was never to freeze coffee, and it was given with the confidence of a rule that had been tested. It had not re...
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05 Aug 2026Stop Pouring Boiling Water on Your Coffee
Tea drinkers are taught that different leaves want different temperatures, and they adjust without thinking about it. Coffee drinkers are mostly ta...
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