Are You Brewing The Best Coffee At Home?

There are so many different brew methods that you can use to prepare your Java at home, and there are certain things to take into consideration.

Whether you are using a Stovetop Espresso Maker, a traditional drip brew coffee maker, a French Press, or even a percolator, it is still important to use fresh and clean filtered water. This means that if you are brewing with a French Press, it is not advised to use water that may have been sitting out in a kettle overnight. Use fresh filtered water, and make sure that it cools below the boiling point before you mix it with the coffee grounds, otherwise, it could burn them and cause the coffee to taste bitter.

Last of all, make sure that everything that you are using is fresh! It is important to order freshly roasted coffee beans from a company that will ship them the day they are roasted (like my website!), and then grind them freshly before you brew. It truly makes a difference!

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Is Starbucks Anti-Union?

You may have heard recently about the whole Starbucks debacle where a Starbucks in Minneapolis is actually being charged with 17 counts of labor rights violations. Shocking! As it turns out, this is actually not Starbucks's first rodeo because they were recently charged under the same counts and convicted in a federal court in New York. Basically, Starbucks has been hurting due to their decline in sales from the recession so they are laying off and cutting hours, while expecting the remaining employees to bear the brunt of the workload. The employees then formed a union to protect themselves, and Starbucks has been allegedly treating them unfairly and trying to bust up their union practices. This seems shocking in this day and age, but maybe it goes hand-in-hand with all of the trends that we are seeing in home coffee brewing that been on the rise lately. Is it time to become your own barista?