Nicasio Coffee Blog
My Favorite Coffee Companion – Cream Scone Recipe
Many people think of scones and tea. But for me, scones and coffee are one of the best combinations ever. I spent some time trying various scones at local bakeries, and while once in awhile they were ok, they were very inconsistent and often as dense as brownies. Denseness in brownies is great. In scones it’s as unpleasant as a doughy dense biscuit. I decided to take matters into my own hands and after trying various recipes. I experimented with butter scones, but found that it was a lot of extra work (cutting in the butter) and did not result...
Measuring Coffee
In future posts I’ll go into more detail about how to tweak other variables that will have an impact on your coffee flavor. As I pointed out earlier, the grinder is the most link of your coffee making chain. Without a good grinder, it is very hit or miss – all too often the latter. But how much coffee should you use? And how much water? There are not fixed and firm rules about this, just suggestions. But for this post we’ll just discuss how much coffee. The first thing to think about is what do we mean by “much”....
Grind Does Matter
In my last blog post I recommended getting a new grinder if you want to improve the taste of your coffee. Now I’ll explain why the grinder is so important to the actual taste of the coffee. The first and most obvious thing is consistency. A spice grinder grinds finer the longer you keep it on. Depending on the coffee (some are harder than others), freshness, amount used, it is very hard to produce the same grind time after time. When making coffee, reducing variables is important to improving and maintaining consistently good coffee. If some days the ground coffee...
Want to improve your daily grind?
Many people think when they want to improve their coffee “I better buy a new coffee maker.” Seems logical. But the truth is, that there are three main factors that can make your coffee better. And how you make coffee is not even number 2. It’s number 3. It’s the grinder. Getting a better grinder doesn’t intuitively seem the most effective way to improve your coffee, but one of the very few things that coffee experts agree on is that the grinder is the most important factor in getting your coffee to taste great. If you’re using a decent burr...
YOUR perfect cup
How many times have you bought a cup of coffee that smelled great, but tasted bitter, acrid and needed to be diluted with milk and/or sugar? You can add milk or sugar to Nicasio Coffee, but you don't need to! Try it black. You'll be impressed with its natural sweetness and rich coffee flavors. Nicasio Coffee will taste great using any brewing method. It's not surprising that the amount of coffee used will impact how your coffee tastes, but what about the amount of water? Or temperature of the water? The size of the grind and brew time can also impact the flavor....