Assessing Our Mahlkonig EK-43's Grind Quality
Quantitative Assessment Of Mahlkonig EK-43 Burr Alignment Written by: Thomas Manion Disclosure: This project would not be possible without the in...
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Flight Coffee Co. Becomes an Organic Certified Producer
As of this week, Flight Coffee Co, is now certified to sell coffee labeled as 100% organic (provided of course that it was grown organically). Or...
Read moreComposting Coffee Bags
60% Compostable? What Does That Mean? If you've ever contemplated a Flight Coffee bag while enjoying a cup of your morning brew, you may have rea...
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Coffee and the Environment
Beyond the web of well-over-a-thousand compounds that contribute to a cup, coffee is an ethically complex industry. Painful as coffee's environment...
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Cascara- A Fruit Tisane- Coffee Cherry Tea
Cascara emerges somewhere at the intersection of coffee and tea- sort of anyway. Although it comes from the coffee plant, (it is the dried husk of ...
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I have been getting some questions via message about California's inane new law about cancer warnings labels on coffee. I am not a chemist (at all...
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Coffee Fest Baltimore: A Field Report
I represented Flight at Coffee Fest Baltimore, both as an attendant and a competitor. Here are a few highlights from the show!
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Oh, the terroir!
Hello Flight Fam, New coffees are always exciting and I have decided to go back to buying in smaller lots so we can have more fun with new and flav...
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Better Communicating Flavor Notes in Coffee
Perhaps the ultra-delicate, ultra-unique flavor notes roasters pull are unrepresentative of a coffee?
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Our Wholesale Mission Statement
Our Wholesale Mission We work hard to pursue and provide the very best specialty coffee available and we strive to achieve sustainability and tra...
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A beautiful coffee and how elevation sweetens the cup...
Coffee excites me. Coffees from Kenya exhilarate me. You will often hear me describe coffees from Kenya as "drama queens". They pop like technicolo...
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Organic Acids in Coffee in 95 seconds or less...
One pesky test of the Q exam has to do with Organic Acids and Chemistry of Coffee. In a nutshell (or a coffee husk) we broke down five of the most ...
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