How to Make Coffee

Coffee has been enjoyed the world over for many years. People make coffee and enjoy coffee for many reasons, not just for the obvious pick me up. Coffee houses were once and arguably still are the epicenters of intellectual discussion and debate, where the stimulating caffeine from freshly brewed coffee stirred minds.

The first evidence of people noticing the properties of coffee, not necessarily understanding how to make coffee, comes from the Ethiopian legend; Kaldi, the goatherd on the ancient Ethiopian plateau noticed the energy the berries gave his goats. The coffee berries were taken back to a nearby abbot who, after making the coffee berries into a drink, found they kept him alert well into his evening prayers. With the abbot sharing his findings so began the spread of the energizing coffee drink worldwide.

By the 15th century, on the Arabian Peninsula, coffee was being cultivated and started to spread worldwide.

Today the world enjoys coffee in a much more refined manner than the original coffee berry drink first discovered, with a wide and inventive array of ways people make coffee; the traditional espresso machine, through siphon, mokka and cafetierre, to the newest method of the Aeropress. People make coffee on a daily basis at home and in business serving this magnificent and ancient elixir made from coffee beans.

This blog series will look at how to brew coffee and how to make coffee so you can enjoy freshly brewed coffee in new and exciting ways allowing you to get the best from your preferred coffee brew method. And maybe even discover a new favorite way you can make coffee and experience that freshly brewed coffee in new ways.

Before we delve into the multitude of ways of how to make coffee, it’s important to look at the base materials we use to make coffee.

Arguably one of the most influential aspects when you make coffee is the beans and the subsequent grind. It makes sense that without good coffee beans you can’t make good coffee. The beans are the foundation of making good coffee and without a great foundation, no matter how hard you try, the results will always be lacking. Blend 34 roasted coffee beans by Blue J Coffee Co. is the foundation you need for however you make coffee, giving amazing depth of flavor with an unparalleled smoothness to your freshly brewed coffee. Check out our earlier blog on Blend 34 to discover more.

How to make coffee that’s great also relies on the quality of the grind: too coarse or too fine and you risk losing flavors or a cup full of unwanted ground coffee bits. (Which in some cases which we’ll discover in later blogs can add to the experience). In later blogs we will examine grinders and grind processes in more detail, but for now our online store carries a range of Blend 34 ground coffee beans in two coarsenesses. Whilst ideally you make coffee brewed within minutes of grinding coffee beans and as close to the roasted coffee process as possible, that’s not always practical.

Blue J Coffee Co. uses technology to ensure the packages you receive of roasted coffee beans and ground coffee are as fresh as possible and the special grind technologies and packaging processes ensure our roasted coffee, espresso ground coffee and omni-ground coffee are able to cover all coffee brewing methods, arrive to you as fresh as possible and allow you to make coffee to a level you’ll never have believed possible.

Having briefly covered the origins and foundation aspects of how to make coffee, in the next blog we will examine in more detail one of those brewing methods and discover how to make coffee with the traditional espresso machine.