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The Rake's Bluffer's Guide to Coffee
Amir Gehl and Rick Wells of Fernandez & Wells give The Rake their expert advice on buying, storing, grinding and brewing coffee.
The Rake, the magazine of classic men's style, called on two experts for "A Bluffer's Guide to Coffee" in November 2018: Difference Coffee founder Amir Gehl and Rick Wells of Fernandez & Wells.
Wells recommends buying whole beans and grinding them yourself. Amir warns that words like "premium" and "luxury" mean little, because coffee is either Specialty, 100% Arabica scoring 80 points or more out of 100, or Commercial. He stores beans in the freezer to stop degassing and oxidation, and recommends a good grinder such as a Comandante for an even grind. For the easy way at home, he advocates a Nespresso machine loaded with Difference Coffee capsules, noting that the Geisha capsule scored 94 points from Coffee Review, a similar score to the same coffee brewed the traditional way.
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