the journal

coffee writing
from the floor.

we go to the festivals and the championship finals ourselves. we walk the floor, we taste at the booths, we ask the questions. these are the reports.

the science of coffee flavour

how you actually taste a cup, and why most of it is smell

hermanos, brut tea, sipcollective, a uk brewers cup round, and the rise of filter on the home espresso floor.

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