Buying Coffee for Beginners #5

Okay, you’re faced with the important choice of buying new coffee (beans). Do you actually know what to look out for? It’s quite difficult to determine exactly how a bag of coffee beans from the supermarket or coffee shop will taste.

Coffee expert and Dutch Aeropress champion Edward from Trakteren Koffie in Amsterdam helps you develop your palate and translate it into a purchase.

Brewing method #5

What is your favorite coffee and how do you make it? Do you use an Aeropress, grandma’s filter coffee maker, or an espresso machine? Every brewing method requires a different type of coffee.

Old-school filter method:

 medium-roasted espresso coffee

New-school filtering: finer grind and full flavor, complex flavors, fruity

Espresso: espresso coffee that is definitely not too light

Read the coffee-buying guide #1 here, #2 here, #3 here and #4 to become a coffee expert.

Thanks to Edward Beumer of Trakteren Koffie.

Text: Nora van den Heuvel
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