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to pour-over coffee with the V60 and Kalita Wave: choosing a dripper, gear, a simple recipe and fixes for common problems.","tags":["brewing","gear","light-roast"],"title":"Pour-Over Coffee: A Beginner's Guide to the V60 and Kalita Wave","url":"/brewing/pour-over/"},{"section":"coffee-production","summary":"What dark roast coffee is, how it tastes, whether it has more caffeine, which beans suit it and how to brew it for the best cup.","tags":["dark-roast","roasting","espresso"],"title":"Dark Roast Coffee: Bold, Smoky and Low in Acid","url":"/coffee-production/dark-roast/"},{"section":"coffee-production","summary":"How coffee roasting works: what happens in the roaster, roast levels and their names, caffeine, espresso roast and which roast to buy.","tags":["roasting","light-roast","medium-roast","dark-roast"],"title":"How Coffee Roasting Works","url":"/coffee-production/roasting/"},{"section":"coffee-production","summary":"What light roast coffee is, how it tastes, which beans suit it 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side by side, and how to use that when buying beans.","tags":["processing","tasting"],"title":"Coffee Processing Explained: Washed, Natural, Honey and Wet-Hulled","url":"/coffee-production/processing/"},{"section":"coffee-varieties","summary":"How arabica and robusta coffee differ in taste, caffeine and price, where you meet robusta and which one you should buy.","tags":["tasting","espresso"],"title":"Arabica vs Robusta: The Two Coffees You Actually Drink","url":"/coffee-varieties/arabica-vs-robusta/"},{"section":"brewing","summary":"How to keep coffee fresh: reading roast dates, how long to rest beans, buying whole bean, how much to buy and how to store or freeze it.","tags":["brewing"],"title":"Fresh Coffee: Roast Dates, Resting and Storage","url":"/brewing/freshness-and-storage/"},{"section":"roasters","summary":"How to read a coffee bag label line by line: origin, variety, process and roast date, which claims tell you little, and a buying 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Colombia, Brazil, Central America and Indonesia, and how each tastes.","tags":[],"title":"Coffee Origins","url":"/coffee-origins/"},{"section":"coffee-production","summary":"How coffee gets from farm to grinder: processing methods like washed, natural and honey, and how light, medium and dark roasts differ.","tags":[],"title":"Coffee Production","url":"/coffee-production/"},{"section":"coffee-varieties","summary":"A guide to coffee varieties such as Gesha, Bourbon, Typica and SL28, and what a variety name on the bag tells you about the cup.","tags":[],"title":"Coffee Varieties","url":"/coffee-varieties/"},{"section":"coffee-weekly","summary":"A weekly digest of the best coffee deals from US roasters we follow, plus coffee events worth knowing about.","tags":[],"title":"Coffee Weekly","url":"/coffee-weekly/"},{"section":"roasters","summary":"Reviews of US online coffee roasters we have ordered from, with the sample bags we tasted sorted by roast 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