by Paul Schmidt | May 14, 2014 | Coffee Tips, Recipes
Cold brew coffee is a coffee concentrate. It is very important that you use a specialty grade coffee because lesser grades do have contaminants in them. As a certified coffee grader, I only allowed Specialty Grade coffees in my roaster. There is not one...
by Paul Schmidt | May 24, 2012 | Coffee Tips
A good friend of mine, Trent Loos, a 6th generation United States farmer, shared this with me several years ago and I wanted to pass it along to you. Mr. Loos is: entertaining, passionate about his causes, somewhat controversial, but always informative and...
by Paul Schmidt | May 12, 2012 | Coffee Tips
Coffee is an agricultural product and can vary from season to season because of environmental factors such as: weather, insects, disease, etc. There have been some seasons that I have opted not to bring in a coffee because it just doesn’t meet my...
by Paul Schmidt | May 12, 2012 | Coffee Tips
If you are already have a burr grinder and you are buying whole bean coffee, you’re a step ahead. There are several grinder options in the market place today; but which one should you buy? The whirly blade seems to be the most common grinder in the kitchens of...
by Paul Schmidt | May 3, 2012 | Coffee Tips
As I mentioned in and earlier blog post; coffee is a perishable food item. Many of us have followed the spoken word (Gospel) and kept our coffee in the fridge or the freezer. In all of the research that I have done, there is not one valid place where this theory...
by Paul Schmidt | Apr 25, 2012 | Coffee Tips
OK, so I posted something really disgusting on my fb page and realized when I got into the coffee industry, we, as consumers, are really in the dark. There are so many questions that need to be asked, that we don’t even know that we should be asking. ...
