A review by faulkneribarelyknowher
The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes by James Freeman

3.0

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