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I Know Coffee: Harvesting, Blending, Roasting, Brewing, Grinding & Tasting Coffee by Jessica Simms
hrk's review
4.0
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway.
To get my biggest criticism out of the way first: this book needed another round of proofreading. (Or the giveaway was for an uncorrected proof? There was no indication of this though.) While it was well-written overall, there were so many obvious brain blips, like "Indonesia is an island of nations". These were distracting and occasionally confusing.
I think most coffee drinkers would appreciate the blending, roasting, and brewing chapters. While most of us probably never plan to roast our own coffee, the blending and roasting chapters explain what flavors you can expect from the different blend ingredients and roast levels, and why. The brewing chapter is just what it sounds like.
The harvesting and tasting chapters will mostly be of interest to super coffee geeks, imo. While I (not a super coffee geek) found some parts of these chapters interesting, those parts were also summarized in other chapters.
To get my biggest criticism out of the way first: this book needed another round of proofreading. (Or the giveaway was for an uncorrected proof? There was no indication of this though.) While it was well-written overall, there were so many obvious brain blips, like "Indonesia is an island of nations". These were distracting and occasionally confusing.
I think most coffee drinkers would appreciate the blending, roasting, and brewing chapters. While most of us probably never plan to roast our own coffee, the blending and roasting chapters explain what flavors you can expect from the different blend ingredients and roast levels, and why. The brewing chapter is just what it sounds like.
The harvesting and tasting chapters will mostly be of interest to super coffee geeks, imo. While I (not a super coffee geek) found some parts of these chapters interesting, those parts were also summarized in other chapters.
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