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The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
James Freeman
3.81 AVERAGE
13 reviews for:
The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
James Freeman
3.81 AVERAGE
3 stars. This book served as a decent introduction to coffee growing, roasting, and making. There were some nice recommendations for equipment and interesting coffee making tips. The tone of voice might be off-putting for some, but I would recommend this one if you are newer to coffee and looking to learn a little more.
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Not going to rate since it wasn't what I was looking for (book on home roasting)
Neat survey of coffee through its various stages. Also has a super-solid recipe for rosemary shortbread.
Once you read one coffee book you really have read them all. While I was looking for tips on espresso, this book was another general overview of the process, roasting, and making of coffee with nothing special in it besides the author's snark. Something hilarious with the author stating that espresso is simultaneously too hard for the average person to get but also not complicated enough for people to be interested in. It later devolves into a recipe book in order to just fill in the pages.
Read The World Atlas of Coffee by Hofmann for coffee info without the snark
Read The World Atlas of Coffee by Hofmann for coffee info without the snark
Great anecdotes, but the bottom line is I make better coffee after reading this book...
3.5 for this. The book went into full-fledged recipes towards the 2 nd half which i hadn't expected. But still I did gather knowledge on coffee vairieties and technicalities which was my purpose of reading the book.
Extra stars for the imaginative writing, like the line on aspirational geeky personality type who would like espresso machines which are simple machines yet giving the impression of being much more complicated
Extra stars for the imaginative writing, like the line on aspirational geeky personality type who would like espresso machines which are simple machines yet giving the impression of being much more complicated
If you love coffee, this is the book for you. It only says The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee but in fact it is actually about one man's journey discovering his love of coffee, and sharing the principles and philosophy of the third wave coffee movement.
I love this beautiful book. Such a nice weekend read. I also got mine as a christmas gift which, makes it even more precious.
I love this beautiful book. Such a nice weekend read. I also got mine as a christmas gift which, makes it even more precious.
yeah it’s pretty good
ofc Freeman knows a lot about coffee, and he is perhaps The Guy when it comes to third-wave coffee in the bay area
his pretentiousness kinda irked me (like cmon you don’t have to reference Proust or Bergman dude) but i actually loved his trans-sensory descriptions of coffee. his musical analogies when describing coffee were especially interesting
the book covers a good spread of knowledge. there were some things that i wish he’d expand on more (eg why no single-shot baskets??) but in general this is a solid introductory coffee book
i skipped the recipes sorry
ofc Freeman knows a lot about coffee, and he is perhaps The Guy when it comes to third-wave coffee in the bay area
his pretentiousness kinda irked me (like cmon you don’t have to reference Proust or Bergman dude) but i actually loved his trans-sensory descriptions of coffee. his musical analogies when describing coffee were especially interesting
the book covers a good spread of knowledge. there were some things that i wish he’d expand on more (eg why no single-shot baskets??) but in general this is a solid introductory coffee book
i skipped the recipes sorry