Brew Guides & Education

Dialed in: How to Brew a Japanese Iced Coffee

Dialed in: How to Brew a Japanese Iced Coffee

The Japanese iced coffee brew method is a great way to maintain the brightness and depth of a coffee in a cold drink. If you’ve been drinking a lot of...
June 26, 2021 — Suneal Pabari
Why Does Coffee Water Matter?

Why Does Coffee Water Matter?

A cup of brew is typically made up of two elements, the actual coffee itself, and water (and milk and sugar sometimes which is okay too!). We put so much...
May 10, 2021 — Lauren Scratch
5 Steps to Making Amazing Coffee Blends

5 Steps to Making Amazing Coffee Blends

Coffee blends, some people love ‘em, other people avoid ‘em. Oftentimes they are dismissed as a way to get rid of excess coffee or to cheaply throw something together, but...
January 13, 2021 — Lauren Scratch
Dialed In: An Iced AeroPress with Propeller Coffee Co.

Dialed In: An Iced AeroPress with Propeller Coffee Co.

  Propeller's Iced AeroPress Guide: Summer has finally arrived! For those days when cranking up the AC and cold showers don’t quite do the trick, we’ve got an iced AeroPress guide...
August 16, 2019 — Suneal Pabari

How to Brew the Abid Clever (Brew Guide/Recipe with Video!)

We're huge fans of the Abid Clever. Munenori Kawasaki of the Toronto Blue Jays won't stop mentioning bush parties, we're a bit like that: we can't stop talking about the Abid Clever.

This brewing device is the best of both words with the immersion that makes it a bit like a french press but with the cleanliness of the filtered brew that makes it a bit like a V60. There are some coffees that really do benefit from this duality and we really recommend testing out your coffees from each pack to see which ones works best. 

October 17, 2015 — The Roasters Pack Staff
The Best Iced Coffee Recipes (with Hario V60/Chemex):

The Best Iced Coffee Recipes (with Hario V60/Chemex):

If you’re an avid coffee drinker there are a few options to make your joe better suited for the summer weather. You can go the cold brew route or you can make an iced coffee. Cold brewing can takes about 12 – 18 hours, and we don’t always have that much foresight when we want something caffeinated and cold... which is where a fantastic iced coffee comes into play.

So what are your iced coffee options? We have 3 delicious recipes that are a bit more unique than the rest – one from us, one from the gents over at Hale Coffee (which uses ice cream) & one from de Mello Palhetta (which uses peppermint tea!).

What is "the Bloom" and why should you care?

If you watched one of our recent videos on how to make coffee in the Hario V60 by Gabriel de Carvalho Dias from Carvalho Coffee, you would have heard him remark this about a coffee bloom:

 

“It’s so beautiful to see this”

This is the specific bloom he was referring to was this:

How to Brew a Great cup of Coffee

Gabriel de Carvalho Dias owns a farm in Brazil and is the head roaster at Carvalho Coffee in Oakville, Ontario. His coffee has won awards at the Cup of Excellence and in this article, he shows us how to brew a great cup of coffee.