A deep dive in to Contrabean

 Spent about an hour with @WRXPropertyGroup a few weeks ago. If you've got 20 minutes to spare, check out this viceo about Contrabean and our principles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1YLjNT0EwY

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The Daily Grind

In the last post we introduced the Coffee Brewing Control Chart; a tool developed in the 60s-70s that is the foundation of brewing good, tasty, coffee. The Chart relates TDS (Y axis) to Extraction (X axis) and brew ratio (diagonals). Brewing a great cup of coffee is all about dissolving...

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Go For Gold. Great coffee…it’s not that hard

I recently walked in to a great looking local café and laid down 3 or 4 bucks for a pour over brewed with freshly roasted beans. The “barista” asked if I would mind waiting, as it would be 15 minutes. I looked around, there were only a handful of people...

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Burundi

We have two Washed Bourbon coffees from Burundi as part of our initial offerings. These two coffees were sourced for us by TGEP Inc., a Montreal based Canadian company that specializes in the selection and importation of Arabica coffees from Burundi. Burundi is a small, land locked country in East...

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