Congratulations on your coffee shop success! The LLC structure is indeed a smart move for liability protection. Your focus on market research, quality ingredients, and building a solid plan is insp...

Hi there! I recently opened my own coffee shop as an LLC with assistant of LLCBuddy and it was a fantastic decision. The LLC structure provides liability protection, which is crucial in the food in...

Hi all! I'm planning to open a coffee business and thought an LLC would be the best structure. Has anyone done this for a small food or beverage business? Any tips on what to prioritize?

the flavor profile deteriorates rapidly about 10 days after roasting.  I enjoy my coffee between day 4 and day 7 after roasting and the beans are stored in an airtight jar.  I think CO2 e...

Todd, I also use a Gene Cafe. Because mostly of ignorance, I tend to roast at the highest temp setting and rarely change it during the roast. I'm now learning how important the roast curve is. I w...

@John Uriarte  What are you storing the coffee in after roasted?

My roaster is a Gene Cafe roaster.  It has about a half-pound capacity.  However, I use 227 grams as my typical size of roast, as it gives more granularity in pre-roast/post-roast weighin...

No doubt YES!

Hey John, Like most brewing methods, it really depends on what your target/intenetions are as well as how you are brewing. For full immersion cold brews I have found sweet and chocolate-forward c...

I have experienced this a few times. I cup the coffee after a day or so of rest and it's is buzzing, popping, amazingly bright and yummy. But then after a week or two or rest, it looses that buzzin...

I am new to cold brew so I have no idea what I am doing. Is there anything to consider when picking a bean to roast for cold brew? Do you roast the beans the same as for hot brewed coffee or do you...

Ok, that makes sense. Thank you!

We are curious to know if folks are roasting in grams or ounces as well as what measurement is being used to track temperatures.  Most standards in our industry are built around grams and mil...

Hey John, The simple answer is yes. This really comes down to what the goal of your "cupping" is. There are standardized protocols and best practices for cupping coffee which include certain para...

When a new coffee arrives at our warehouse, we perform some extensive testing before making it available on our website. Every test result makes its way onto the product pages to provide transparen...

I know coffee is roasted differently, much lighter, than coffee roasted for drinking. But can you cup coffee that is roasted for drinking? Lets say I have 10 coffees or 10 roasts that I want to tas...

Has anyone tried out the prismo attachment from Fellow? I am curious to know what recipes are being used out there. It seems that there are endless ways to use this clever little device.  Sha...

Hi John, Longberry is definitely a unique variety! The distinctively shaped beans are long and slender which will spead up heat transfer to the interior of the bean, however the narrow pointed tip...

So are there any tips to roasting a Longberry variety bean? Espescially a Indonesia Sumatra? Like what should end temp be around? And should you let it just start 2nd crack? FC+ roasts?

I use inversion method. Weigh out your beans, grind (I use a grind setting that I use for cupping coffee), dump ground coffee in, zero out Aeropress with ground coffee, start timer to a 2:30min cou...