Craft Coffee: A Manual: Brewing a Better Cup at Home

Jessica Easto

Feb 2024 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Carolyn Jania

About this audiobook

This comprehensive but accessible handbook is for the average coffee lover who wants to make better coffee at home. Unlike other coffee books, this one focuses exclusively on coffee-not espresso-and explores multiple pour-over, immersion, and cold-brew techniques on ten different devices. Thanks to a small but growing number of dedicated farmers, importers, roasters, and baristas, coffee quality is at an all-time high. But for nonprofessionals, achieving cafe quality at home can seem out of reach. With dozens of equipment options, conflicting information on how to use that equipment, and an industry language that, at times, doesn't seem made for the rest of us, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Craft Coffee: A Manual, written by a coffee enthusiast for coffee enthusiasts, is a comprehensive guide to improving your brew at home. The book provides all the information listeners need to discover what they like in a cup of specialty coffee-and how to replicate the perfect cup day after day. From the science of extraction and brewing techniques to choosing equipment and deciphering coffee bags, Craft Coffee focuses on the issues-cost, time, taste, and accessibility-that home coffee brewers negotiate and shows that no matter where you are in your coffee journey, you can make a great cup at home.

About the author

Jessica Easto is a writer and editor based in Northwest Indiana. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in fiction writing from Southern Illinois University. Her book Craft Coffee: A Manual was named a top food and drink book of 2017 by The Food Network, Wired, Sprudge, and Booklist.

Carolyn Jania is an LA-based actor/singer/writer/improviser. She is an alum of The Groundlings Sunday Company, where she has done extensive comedy character work, and she received a BA in theater from Butler University. Her passion is writing and performing original comedy songs for her comedy pop band, Schmab.

Andreas Willhoff is the director of education at Halfwit Coffee Roasters and the director of operations at The Wormhole, a Chicago craft coffee shop that has been recognized by Food & Wine, Sprudge.com, Fresh Cup, and CNN.com, among other places.