I’ve collected a fair amount of books on coffee. Some are excellent, whilst others deeply embarrassing. I thought I’d put together a little list of the ones that I would recommend to other people wanting to learn more.

I have a rather embarrassing confession.  Despite being the fact that I am never going to compete in barista competitions again I still have most of a new routine written in my head.  The soundtrack, the intro, most of what I would say and talk...

This week the website went live for the London Gastronomy Seminars (The Facebook group is here).  The first seminar now has tickets for sale, and I for one am very excited to see Herve This talk.  There aren’t a huge number of tickets so if you are...

This is going to be a bit of a mish mash post, a composite of a few different things.  Originally I had planned to follow up the previous post on brew temperature and conduct a few experiments but the comments quickly reminded me I need to go and do...

Much fun was had at the UBF last night. I was pulling shots all night, but had my camera with me so shot a bit of video as we went along which I’ve cut into a fun little thing: UBF IV from James Hoffmann on Vimeo. The challenge was head to head pour...

This, shockingly enough, isn’t about espresso.  It is about brewed coffee, and the fact that brew temperature is completely wrecking my head.  We talk a lot about brew temperature but what we are really talking about is water delivery temperature. I...