the Italians who first made espresso in this country were mostly poor immigrants who could afford only lower quality coffee beans, including a lot of inferior Robusta coffees. Poorer quality coffees are traditionally roasted very...

doubt Blue Bottle roasted improperly but they may have chosen deliberately to use a lighter roast than you’re used to and maybe also some higher acid coffees than the lower acid Brazils and robusta beans a lot of people...

I just love the way Phil blends high quality (expensive) Arabica beans with cheap Robusta to bring the profit margin up.

. The family that ran the Marti table were also very obliging when I asked them to make up a couple of boxes of their tropical flavors: barako coffee (a hard-to-handle Philippine robusta), mango, durian, banana,...