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*A guest post by Ryan Brown, author of Dear Coffee Buyer*I can’t help myself from occasional banter with baristas. Often this leads to playful arguments, and while I’d like to think that I usually win these arguments, I painfully remember a time I was wrong.In late...

    I’m pleased to announce I’ll be offering a roasting masterclass in Berlin on June 8, at the venerable Five Elephant roastery. This class will feature a few new, exciting elements, such as: A comprehensive system to permanently banish ROR crashes, flicks,...

Was it the green? The roast? The extraction?  Photo credits: @andrewrizerOften the most difficult part of improving a coffee is diagnosing how various inputs created a cup’s qualities. For every coffee I taste, I think about how the five main inputs (green,...

Idle noise, ROR intervals, and analyzing roast curvesRecently, Marko Luther of Artisan published a fascinating blog post “On Idle Noise.” Marko’s post discussed how to diagnose and fix “idle noise,” or background noise present in one’s data collection and processing...

Photo credit: Norman Mazel (@normanito) I get an endless stream of unsolicited coffee questions in my inbox. In the past I’ve tried to reply to every such email and instagram message, but it became a bit too time consuming. I decided recently to try to answer some of...

As of today’s podcast, I ‘ve begun separating the podcasts by theme: brewing, roasting, coffee & health, etc. My hope is to help listeners decide which episodes may interest them most. Today I fielded questions with Vassily about brewing, with a few...

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Just try to take a bad picture—we dare you   We might not be able to travel IRL right now—but that can’t stop us from dreaming of our next big adventure once all this sh*t passes. While things may look grim now, we must look at it all with our mugs half full.   From...

Another day, another mask By Lisa Frania, Guest Blogger Thanks a lot, COVID-19 ... For now communication skills have imploded. We’re not hanging with friends and family like we used to. We’ve been forced to cancel most of our much-needed travel and dinner plans, and...

YOU MEAN A LOT TO US As we approach the Thanksgiving season this year, we've been thinking a lot about what we're thankful for at Death Wish Coffee.  During the strange and unprecedented times of 2020, we are of course incredibly thankful for the coffee industry we...

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SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE—FOR YOUR COFFEE! By Lisa Frania, Guest Blogger Rotten stomachs, acid reflux, and other digestive “issues” may be too much of a bummer for some consumers and prompt them to find another beverage option instead of a cup of coffee. For...

Winter is coming December is finally here and we're feeling merry and bright—despite 2020 being one big dumpster fire. With the holidays right around the corner, we’re super pumped about the new merch rolling out this month. Whether you’re shopping for your...

Each year when the holiday season starts we start watching our favorite holiday movies. There are so many iconic and classic films to choose from, we start watching earlier and earlier each year just so we can watch them all. I'm sure some of these are your favorites,...

  Sometimes the most fundamental and important messages seem to get lost in the details. Some of what is said online and otherwise about roasting, and about what I have said about roasting, is mistaken. I’d love to set the record straight on the fundamentals and...

  If you’re in the market to purchase a coffee roaster, I wrote this book for you. I’ve had the fortune to roast on hundreds of machines throughout my career, and I’d like to help new roasters buy the right machine for their needs. My goal in writing this book...

I’ve frequently written about astringency on Instagram and Jonathan Gagné, author of the forthcoming book The Physics of Filter Coffee, wrote an excellent blog post about the science of astringency. Here I’d like to offer a practical guide to finding and fixing...

A few years ago on our Fueled By Death Show, Jeff and Dustin broke down the history, origins, and traditions surrounding the songs of the season—Christmas carols. (You can watch the full video below) (Photo by Digital Vision) It all started because in 2018 the song,...

WAKE UP, SLEEPY HEAD By Lisa Frania, Guest Blogger Mornings—for so many of us—can be rough, to say the least. Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Unfortunately, society tends to reward early risers due to much of the world operating on an insanely eager...

The good in the bad... We're not going to lie...2020 was a total dumpster fire. From a  global pandemic and devastating natural disasters to murder hornets and a country upended by a fight for racial equality—this year was no walk in the park.  It’s times like these...

I’m pleased to announce my newest all-levels online roasting class this November 7. The class will be broadcast through a private Facebook group. All ticket holders will have access to the class video and discussion forum for one month after the class airs. *It is not...

As we enter the holiday season, I thought it would be nice to make some gift recommendations for the coffee enthusiast in your life. I admire and enjoy all of these items personally, and strongly recommend them. Please note that I have no financial interests in any of...

  Recently a friend and I discussed the viability of starting a niche business selling green coffee. We decided not to do it, but one of the interesting issues to come out of our discussions was cup-score inflation. Part of our business model would have been...