How to gift the right roast for any type of coffee drinker
Gifting coffee is a great idea: it ships easily and its consumption is essential for making it through the year, and next. Browse Our Gift Guide and Keep It Simple Problem is,...
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What Makes a Good Cup of Coffee?
A good cup of coffee is brewed with the right strength and should have a balanced combination of sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and body. A well-brewed cup highlights the origin character...
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Community + Coffee: Ukiah Vecinos en Acción
This Fall we will be giving back to our community by partnering with Ukiah Vecinos en Acción, a grassroots organization which focuses on taking action on issues that affect the...
Female Farmer Series: Bella Vista - Chiapas
Bella Vista is sourced from 168 family-owned farms located in communities within the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Rosalba Cifuentes Tovia, who was raised in the Bella Vista coffee community, has...
What kind of coffee do you actually like?
Here’s a cheat sheet of some of the different words we’ve used to describe our coffees: Sweet Balanced Nutty Complex Bold Full-Bodied Smoky Smooth Cacao ...
Serving Our Community In This Challenging Time
The pace of change over the last week has been staggering, sending shockwaves through communities nationwide, and at Black Oak, complicating our simple mission to make better coffee everyday. We...
Coffee and the power of fifteen
Coffee farming is becoming more challenging. As the commodity price of coffee drops to close to ten year lows, many producers risk the price they are paid for coffee dropping...
Caffeine and Coffee: How to get more of a good thing
How to create a highly caffeinated drip coffee that actually tastes good. What you need: Use an 8:1 brew ratio for filter coffee, or about 30 grams of coffee for...
Espresso vs Drip Coffee: The Complete Guide
The only material difference between espresso and drip coffee is the brew method. There are however some important things to understand about these differences and how they can influence how...
Brew Better: The Pyramid of Coffee Quality
The internet is wrong when it comes to coffee. Most Google Trends searches on coffee are about a cold brew recipes or the best drip coffee maker. Entire internet forums...
How to make flash brew iced coffee
Flash brew iced coffee: the simplest, best method for cold coffee at home 30g Coffee Medium Grind 300g Water 200°F 120g Ice in the container Brew in a Hario V60 or Chemex...
Brew Better Cold Brew At Home
Easy, Delicious Cold Brew What you need: Wide mouth quart size mason jar, Alto Filter, filtered water Measure: 70 grams of coffee, just under 3 ounces (by weight) Grind: Coarse...
The best pour-over drippers under $25, compared
Affordable & Effective... When Dialed In Pour over drippers are a great way to get that coffee-shop quality cup at home. We have used our fair share in our endless...
Brew Better: How to choose a coffee grinder
Of the many factors that determine the amount of joy and flavor in a cup of coffee, some might argue that the grinder itself is the most important part of...
Seeking the sweet spot at the US Roasting Competition
Black Oak Coffee Roaster’s Steve Cuevas will be competing in the 2019 US Coffee Roasting Championship in Kansas City on March 15-17. Cuevas earned his place to participate in the...
How to brew better coffee using a home drip coffee maker
Myth bustingFiner grind = better cup? Grinding too fine makes your cup much more bitter. You will only make the cup slightly stronger (we’ve tested it and its less than...
Community Coffee Card: UUSD Middle Schools
Want to donate? Give thanks to those that make our middle schools amazing For every $1 you donate, we’ll donate $2. Help us fill the card and support these great members of our...