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Setting up your new Baratza grinder, you may notice the wide range of grind settings available. If you’re not a barista competitor, a green coffee buyer, or any kind of coffee professional, you probably don’t know what all those settings are for. Here…
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Of the Five Important Factors in Brewing Great Coffee at Home, grind size is crucial. It allows for much greater or lesser extraction and can mean the difference between a great cup of coffee and a terrible one. A quick refresher on extraction Extracti…
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Brewing coffee is a complex process with a lot of variables involved. It can be overwhelming to keep track of every minute detail in a pour-over, and frustrating if something goes wrong. Excellent craft coffee doesn’t have to be hard if you work…
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The journey to great coffee at home starts with a good grinder. We offer several models, and examine how to choose the right one for you in a previous post. The Sette series offers the best grind quality and user experience for espresso available in ou…
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This blog will help you choose the best grinder for your coffee journey. Multi-purpose workhorses like the Encore and Virtuoso+ won’t break your budget, next-level precision like the Vario and Vario-W will up your game for espresso and brew, and cutting edge technology like the Sette series will elevate the home espresso experience.
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When you make a grind adjustment, you expect an immediate result. This makes sense because grind has a serious effect on the flavor of your coffee. So what does it mean if you make an adjustment, but don’t see a change in how your coffee extracts? Some…
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Chaff is the thin outer skin of the coffee bean and is prevalent in roasted coffee that is of a lighter roast profile, especially if the chaff collector of the roaster becomes full during roasting. When roasted to a darker roast profile, the chaff is b…
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It’s not often that you think about Middle School and great coffee together, right? But that’s definitely what happening at Piedmont Middle School in Charlotte NC. A student team here have a coffee shop, to provide Admin and Faculty with delicious coff…
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by Alex Choppin, Baratza Support Specialist So you’ve taken the dive down the rabbit hole of home espresso. Congratulations! The Sette 30 is a great machine for you to use as you start this journey. We at Baratza aren’t interested in telling anyone how…
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by Alex Choppin, Baratza Support Specialist. We have updated this blog to reflect S1 burr changes. For more info refer to this blog. I’ve worked in coffee for twelve years, and most of that time was spent behind an espresso machine. I remember thwackin…
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