Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

There are a lot of ways to make a great cup of coffee at home. What you use to make your coffee should be based on how you like to drink your coffee, because some brewing methods bring out certain...

Coffee starts its journey as the seeds of the flowering Coffea plant. These seeds or ‘green’ beans have none of the characteristics of the roasted coffee beans. They are hard and have a grassy smell. However, when green beans are roasted, they undergo many chemical changes. In a tightly controlled environment, they are heated to very high and very precise temperatures and then rapidly cooled the moment they reach the desired roast level.

Understanding grind sizes can go a long way in helping you achieve the perfect cup of coffee. Brewing coffee using the wrong grind size is one of the most common reasons why your coffee tastes bad.

I was fortunate enough to be invited as the international speaker at the Czech Coffee Week, held in Brno at the start of October.  The conference portion was held over the weekend and included a coffee market where roasters from...

Customers are constantly asking us whether they should store their coffee in a fridge or freezer, or if their coffee is going to get spoilt in the summer heat. If you’re amongst the large group of coffee lovers curious about...

Following up on our earlier blog post on water and coffee, we did an experiment to gauge how much your water affects the flavor of the final brew. We brewed the same coffee using the same recipe and equipment but only varied...

How important is the water when you brew a cup of coffee? The water you use is integral to the way your coffee tastes. It changes every characteristic of your coffee - possessing the ability to make it less or...

When I tell my family and friends where I work, I expect questions about roasting and what a roasterie is, but what I tend to hear a lot is: “What’s ‘tokai’?” “Is it an English word?” “Did your boss make...

When we ventured out to meet the farms that we wanted to work with, we were struck by the farms' natural lush beauty, their complex biodiversity as well as the incredible amount of work that goes into each step of...

Source: Coffee Fish Roastery After a long hiatus, the coffee links are back!   Nitrogen, cold brew.  We will definitely be doing this when we open our new space.   Can't say we liked the coffee, but the Indian Coffee...