April 17, 2022 In recent times, the popularity of specialty coffee has brought a great demand for better apparel when extracting coffee at home. What was considered a luxury article some years behind, now has become much more accessible due to the many options of expresso machines for domestic use produced by a…

April 4, 2022 Hello everybody! In my infinite quest for places that have specialty coffee on their menu (and not only coffee shops, as the title says), I could also find a huge amount of awesome places. They are all spotted in our greatest tool, our MAP, and it will be easy to…

March 25, 2022 We all have that coffee geek friend and we know that a specialty coffee-related gift will always please that person. So if you are about to gift someone who loves coffee, this list will fit perfectly for you. On the other hand, if you are a specialty coffee lover, you…

March 23, 2022 In this article, we are going to show you everything you need to brew coffee in the most interesting ways at home. We are going to give you the basics of how to do the extractions as well as the basic apparel you will need to have. After reading it,…

March 7, 2022 COMMERCIAL COMMODITY COFFEE Commercial or commodity coffee is the term that is usually referred to coffees that do not reach the 80 points in the SCA Punctuation Criteria. But in a simple way, commercial coffee is that coffee that you will find in the supermarket, soluble coffee, and coffee from…

July 27, 2021 Everything began in the 60´s when the Italian espresso manufacturer Fabbrica Apparecchiature Elettromeccaniche e Affini (or FAEMA), sponsored the Faema cycling team. At that time Eddy Merckx, known as the greatest cyclist of all time, was in the team and the brand exposition was very successful. After this fact, many…

May 23, 2021 Text written by PRISCILA PINHO | How to measure the impact of centuries of coffee production on Brazil’s landscapes? Observing  MINAS GERAIS landscape can be one of the indicators of the impact that extractive monoculture has generated and, unfortunately, continues to generate in Brazil. But some initiatives among producers have…

December 29, 2020 The text was written by PRISCILA PINHO | What do the different levels of quality mean about the cup you are drinking? When reading a coffee label, we found some information and stamps that indicate the quality of the product. Behind the descriptors, it is possible to diagnose what happened…

November 6, 2020 Days ago we were practically talking about cold drip, iced latte and it seems incredible how quickly they have been left behind.And since we adapt to cold, coffee must also adapt to lower temperatures. Because today, for example, I have prepared a v60 as I usually do, I did not…