I was recently driving to an appointment and I was running exactly on time. I was a bit stressed about not having any buffer because the office I was going to runs like clockwork. I really didn’t want to be late. Suddenly the highway came to complete stop. People started making u-turns in the median. […]
Author Archives: Brian
Brew, Rinse, Repeat
For my third installment of Adventures in Cold Brewing I offer a quick note on repetition. For this experiment I started with my usual Mason jar cold brewing routine. After my standard 12 hours I filtered the coffee, reset the mason jar with fresh coffee grinds, and poured the coffee back in instead of fresh water. I […]
Improving GPS
Every time I get in my car I ask my smartphone to use precise measurements of time beamed from several points in space to quickly triangulate my location, then wirelessly connect to the internet, find my destination, map a route avoiding traffic, then read the directions to me as I drive. And yet I will […]
More on Coffee Brewing
I’ve been playing with cold brewing and changing the technique and recipe slightly with each batch. Here are some of the things you can control when brewing coffee: Grind (Turkish – Coarse) Grinding Method (Burr, Chop, Pound, Roller Grind) Roast (Cinnamon – Spanish) Species (Arabica vs. Robusta) Bean Source and Freshness Water Quality (Hardness, Purification Method, […]