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Tried the second batch of coffee this morning. It’s from Timor-Leste, and is a really light, City- roast, due to me still figuring out the roaster.

Pretty good with milk, but I bit too bright without. Yesterday’s batch was my third try, and a darker roast (City+) which showed up in the chocolate notes.

These are all 4 oz batches, 3.4 oz after roasting. I’d rather ruin a 4oz batch than a 16oz one.

Sweet Maria’s Staff Picks: Featuring Abe

Check out what coffees Abe chose and roasted for Sweet Maria’s Staff Picks.

Meet Abraham “Abe” Cornejo. Abe works in the Sweet Maria’s and Coffee Shrub warehouse making sure green coffee is packaged properly for shipment and hope to one day be a part of our roasting and cupping departments. His childhood interest in animals and nature documentaries led him to his current college major in…

Behmor Roast Profiles: Ethiopia Agaro Duromina Cooperative

It’d been awhile since I fired up a Behmor 1600 plus, and so I made a bit of a refresher course for myself out of this roast profile review. I burned through about a dozen batches (a couple of them quite literally!) before coming up with the profile outlined below, testing different roast presets and manual modes for a range of coffee origins.

For those not familiar with the Behmor, it’s a…

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The best drip coffee maker

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Since 2014, we’ve spent 71 hours brewing in 19 coffee makers to find our top home brewer. After tasting hundreds of pots of coffee, we…

It seems that smart devices are everywhere. Everything from your fridge to your toilet. (Must fight urge to sing circle of life…)

Why should your coffee be any different?

There are a lot of options they range in price. I’ve done a lot of research and here are my top three recommendations for smart coffee makers.

Behmor Brewer ($373.00 at Amazon Canada)

This is the best possible drip coffee maker on the market.

Pros

Temperature control

Soak timing

Pre-soak

App

Schedule

Smart home integration

Cons

Price

Only 8 cups

Overall

If you want complete control on your coffee and you want it at a specific time. This is your coffee maker. It’s versatile and from one of the best names in coffee. Unfortunately the price is high.

Gina ($230 USD from Goat Story)

This is truly for the hipster coffee scientist. It combines the smart of a scale and app with the tried and true pour over method of coffee brewing.

Pros

Hipster Cred

Absolute control

Brew coffee like a European Barista

Makes spectacular coffee

App

Easy to clean and maintenance

Cons

Price

Not really all that smart

Use your own hot water

Only 25 oz of coffee

No smart home integration or schedule

Overall

This is for those that want to take the time to experiment and brew the perfect cup of coffee. It’s simple but time consuming. It’s a lot of work but will make amazing coffee

Create your own (~$40)

I’ve mentioned before that the best coffee maker is the simplest. The less bells and whistles on the darned thing the more power there is for the water heater and pump.

What you do is you buy yourself a simple coffee maker. For a 12 cup machine, it’ll cost you around $20 less if you want smaller or get a sale. The only feature that is important is a physical switch. One or off, not a digital button.

The second part is to buy yourself a smart plug. They range from 20 to 100. Make sure it works with your phone/tablet/computer or the smart speaker/hub of your choice.

So now you have them connected and when the smart switch is on, the coffee maker is on.

Pros

Price

Any size of machine you like

Makes surprisingly good coffee

Schedule (Using IFTT or Stringify)

Smart home integration

Cons

Not fancy

No temperature control

No pre-soak

Simple settings

Not as impressive

Overall

This is the option I’ve gone for. It works extremely well. I tell my Google Home in the morning to start the coffee and then hop in the shower.

I could schedule it to wake me with delicious coffee smells if I wanted but I like the snooze button too much.

This is cheap and easy and will make good coffee.

  Good Brewing!

Éric