Craft Coffee: A Manual: Brewing a Better Cup at Home

Named a top food & drink book of 2017 by Food Network, Wired, Sprudge, and Booklist.

This comprehensive but accessible handbook is for the average coffee lover who wants to make better coffee at home. Unlike other coffee books, this one focuses exclusively on coffee—not espresso—and explores multiple pour-over, immersion, and cold-brew techniques on 10 different devices.

Thanks to a small but growing number of dedicated farmers, importers, roasters, and baristas, coffee quality is at an all-time high. But for nonprofessionals, achieving café quality at home can seem out of reach. With dozens of equipment options, conflicting information on how to use that equipment, and an industry language that, at times, doesn’t seem made for the rest of us, it can be difficult to know where to begin.

Craft Coffee: A Manual, written by a coffee enthusiast for coffee enthusiasts, is a comprehensive guide to improving your brew at home. The book provides all the information readers need to discover what they like in a cup of specialty coffee—and how to replicate the perfect cup day after day. From the science of extraction and brewing techniques to choosing equipment and deciphering coffee bags, Craft Coffee focuses on the issues—cost, time, taste, and accessibility—that home coffee brewers negotiate and shows that no matter where you are in your coffee journey, you can make a great cup at home.

3 thoughts on “Craft Coffee: A Manual: Brewing a Better Cup at Home”

  1. A book for beginners and experts alike, thoroughly readable and entertainingly detailed. Do you want to make better coffee? Do you want to learn everything there is to know about coffee? Do you want to know what all those elitist hipster snobs are talking about at your local cafe? Did you know ‘cafe’ just means ‘brown’? All these things and more are contained in this beautifully written and illustrated book.I haven’t even come close to reading it all, but you’ll find chapters about the history of coffee in our modern era, details about the nearly every origin and…

  2. A Comparison of Two Coffee Books: Craft Coffee vs. Brew To improve my home brewing and coffee knowledge, I picked up a couple of books. After reading both, this is my impression of each and how they are different from each other. To sum it up, Brew is a beginner-oriented guide with great photos, and Craft Coffee is both a beginner and intermediate level guide that contains a wealth of information but no photos.Craft Coffee: A Manual• Overall a 201 type of book – more detail and coverage of coffee beans, equipment, brewing,…

  3. educational AND beautiful! Craft Coffee: A Manual: Brewing a Better Cup at Homethis book is brilliant. it’s full of actually useful information for coffee enthusiasts, and i love the illustrations inside. even the most seasoned coffee connoisseurs will learn something new, but the book is also really accessible for beginner coffee lovers. this is a MUST-BUY!

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