What's In Your Cup?

Analog coffee is still very much alive. You may have felt it in modest ways, in the plunging of your press, or the lazy circling with your kettle for pour-over, or the aeropressing of… well, you can appreciate the point. I certainly get it when hand grinding beans, in the crunch and explosion of smell. In the end, coffee still gets down and dirty and roasting is no different, though of course the stakes are higher, and the nose has to be better. Coffee has taken on somewhat of a lab aesthetic over the years, right down to the interior...

"By all accounts, there is a fair amount of genuine terror associated with one’s first purchase of a production roaster. In the case of Brian Dwiggins, who is now roasting under the name Borealis Coffee Roasters in Pawtucket, R.I., by way of Colorado and his original home Alaska, that roaster is a Probat model purchased in 2014 from Coffeetec. Dwiggins had settled on the model after roasting classes atCoffee Lab International in Waterbury, Vt. “I had literally searched every state and major city on Craigslist on a weekly basis for two years without any luck,” Dwiggins recently told Daily Coffee News. “It showed up on...

In the last few weeks, as Borealis Coffee has started getting some orders, I've had a handful of people ask me HOW they should be drinking their coffee. Those that have been creatures of the Pod, or fans of a drive-through, seem almost overwhelmed at the idea of making coffee at home. I am thrilled at the idea of converting, or at least opening a dialogue, with those that have fallen into the path of single serve or otherwise abandoned making coffee at home.  Borealis Coffee is about roasting a line of coffees that everyone can drink without being pretentious. There...