Blue Bottle Coffee Lab

Brewing

Brew Theory: Extraction, Strength, and Finding the Sweet Spot for Pour Over Coffee

June 21, 2023


How to Choose the Right Brew Method for You

July 17, 2020


Pour Over Coffee vs. Coffeemaker

May 14, 2020


Kettle's On

May 6, 2020


Make Perfect Pour Over Coffee Every Time

April 28, 2020


The Art of the Blue Bottle Pour Over

April 7, 2020


The Right Grinder for Pour Over

April 4, 2020


The Blue Bottle No-Press French Press Brewing Guide

July 26, 2019


Pro-Tips: A New Take on French Press

July 25, 2018


Coffee and the Sixth Sense

July 17, 2018


Pro-Tips: How to Dial In the Grind

May 7, 2018


Popular Brew Methods Around the World

February 12, 2018


How to Brew Coffee for a Crowd

December 14, 2017


Pro-Tips: A Better Nel Drip Coffee

October 17, 2017


Blue Bottle Explains: Espresso

July 6, 2017


The Right Tool to Wake Up to Cold Brew

June 6, 2017


Brewing Coffee with the Moka Pot

April 17, 2017


Do You Need a Scale to Make Coffee?

February 27, 2017


Blue Bottle Explains: Chemex for a Crowd

January 10, 2017


Blue Bottle Explains: Coffee Grinding

November 9, 2016


How to Brew: AeroPress Edition

April 19, 2016


5 Mistakes You Made Brewing Your Coffee This Morning

March 11, 2016


Tasting

Acidity in Coffee

Why It Matters


The Craft of Blends

Why we love our comforting blends and how we make them


The Five Elements of Coffee Tasting

Learn the language of coffee


What Is Specialty Coffee?

Part III: Tasting your way to quality


What Is Specialty Coffee?

Part II: The Stories Green Coffee Tells


What Is Specialty Coffee?

Part I: We’re getting down to basics.


Coffee Lab: What Is Cascara?

Our Cascara Fizz is made from some of the world's finest coffee cherry.


Coffee Lab: Fermentation

What it does—and does not do—for coffee


Coffee & Conversation

Marcelo Pereira helps farmers all over the world connect to the specialty market.


Origins: Ethiopia Coffee

“That’s what I want to drink the rest of my life.”


Why Cultivars Matter

The botanical differences in the coffees we serve


The Basics of Coffee Processing

What happens after the fruit is picked and before it arrives in our roastery


The Coffee Lover's Lexicon

Part One of Our Language of Cupping series


How to Build Your Own Lexicon

Part Two of our Language of Cupping series


A Beginner’s Guide to Coffee Tasting

The simple art of focusing on what’s in front of you


Blue Bottle Explains: Bitterness

Welcome to Issue 1 of Blue Bottle Explains, your coffee advice column. This month, Director of Training and World Barista Champion, Michael Phillips, tackles "bitterness."


Why Do We Source Single Origins?

Coffee should taste like what it is: a tropical fruit seed, separated and cleaned of the flesh, dried, roasted until caramelized, and then crushed and extracted into water.


Sourcing

Promoting Beneficial Agriculture

November 11, 2021


Sustainable Coffee Sourcing at Blue Bottle

September 1, 2021


Blue Bottle Joins World Coffee Research Checkoff Program

September 1, 2021


Women Coffee Leaders

March 7, 2021


Costa Rica: An Origin of Micromills

November 10, 2020


Origin Spotlight: Kenya

October 5, 2020


Origins: Myanmar Coffee

March 26, 2020


Coffee from Seed to Cup

March 23, 2020


Interview: Aida Batlle

February 21, 2019


Aida Batlle: One of the Coffee World’s Greats

February 14, 2019