The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes

August 18, 2017 - Comment

One of the country’s most celebrated roasters explains how to choose, brew, and enjoy the new breed of artisan coffees at home, along with 40 inventive recipes that incorporate coffee or taste good with a cup. Blue Bottle Coffee Company has quickly become one of America’s most celebrated roasters. Famous for its complex and flavorful

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One of the country’s most celebrated roasters explains how to choose, brew, and enjoy the new breed of artisan coffees at home, along with 40 inventive recipes that incorporate coffee or taste good with a cup.

Blue Bottle Coffee Company has quickly become one of America’s most celebrated roasters. Famous for its complex and flavorful coffees, Blue Bottle delights its devoted patrons with exquisite pour-overs, delicious espressi, and specialized brewing methods. 

Yet as coffee production becomes more sophisticated with specialized extraction techniques and Japanese coffee gadgets, the new artisan coffees can seem out of reach. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee explains this new world from farm to cup, exploring the bounty of beans available and the intricate steps that go into sourcing raw coffee from around the globe. Blue Bottle founder James Freeman coaches you through brewing the perfect cup of coffee, using methods as diverse as French press, nel drip, siphon, and more to produce the best flavor. 

For coffee lovers who want to roll up their sleeves and go deeper, Freeman explains step by step how to roast beans at home using standard kitchen tools—just like he did when starting out. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee also introduces a home technique for cupping, the industry method of tasting coffees for quality control, so you can hone your taste and share your meticulously roasted coffee with friends. 

Rounding out the book are more than thirty inventive recipes from Blue Bottle pastry chef and former Miette bakery owner Caitlin Freeman that incorporate coffee or just taste particularly good with coffee, such as Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles, Stout Coffee Cake with Pecan-Caraway Streusel, Affogato with Smoky Almond Ice Cream, Coffee Panna Cotta, and more. 

With more than one hundred stunning photographs showing coffee’s journey from just-harvested cherry to perfect drink, this distinctive and deep guide to the new breed of amazing coffees from one of the top artisan coffee makers will change the way you think about—and drink—coffee.

Featured Recipes from The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee

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Comments

Paul Wyman says:

New Insights for the Coffee Aficionado! This is the third book I’ve read on the topic of Coffee, recently. It’s also the one which has given me the most insight into the people who grow, roast, and serve this wonderful beverage. I feel a bit transformed, actually. 

J. Ow says:

Nice coffee table book Its a very nice read but its more about reading on the experiences and insights of the founders of Blue Bottle Coffee.. the recipes are a bonus and you do learn about coffee, but not as detailed as I expected it. Two of my favorite parts of the book are when Mr Freeman talks about espresso pods with a tad of humor (yes – your Nespresso really taste bad compared to a real espresso machine) and when he explains in detail and “fine tuning” his favorite pour over method – you can tell he…

lhwill says:

Coffee Snob Review As a coffee snob I have always been perplexed why it is so darn difficult to make or get a great tasting cup of coffee, black of course! This book helped me realize that sadly most of us, myself included are drinking stale coffee made from beans that were roasted too long ago or ground way before they were going to be brewed. Now I finally know why it isn’t very often that I have had a really outstanding cup (including at coffee houses) which is crazy since I drink it every single day…

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