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Investigating the Intricacies of Coffee as Commodity, Creativity, and Community.

How To Become an Expert Coffee Taster in 3 Easy Steps

Learning How to Articulate the Taste of Good Coffee In the world of specialty coffee, things are a bit different. By engaging it, you have made the conscious decision to transcend the world of traditional coffee. Believe me when I...

Coffee Cupping at Home with Peregrine

What Is Cupping? “Cupping” is a special brew method and ritual used throughout the coffee industry in order to gain deep insight into a coffee’s uniqueness and quality. Coffee cupping is utilized all the way from the farm where it is...

Challenger

A Perfect Blend of Two Coffees from Opposite Ends of the Earth If you take a stroll around the shop or browse our coffees online today, you might notice a new coffee. It is a coffee with a name steeped...

What Is Specialty Coffee?

Do you stand in front of the overwhelming shelves of coffee at the grocery store and think, “They all taste the same”? You’re not wrong! Many feel this way about low quality coffee roasted en masse. But the tide is...

What Is Espresso?

When you’re walking into a coffee shop, you see many drinks up on the menu board. You sort of have an idea of what’s in those different drinks—or maybe you don’t. That’s okay! If you’ve ever ordered a latte, you’ll...

Learning Curves

The Humble Approach Coffee Apprenticeships Require As a “dirt poor” student at Texas A&M University, I started my own business for extra income. It was during this time that I developed a love for creating. In a tangible way, that...

Small Batch Roasting Because Small Lot Farmers

By now, you’ve learned a thing or two about third wave coffee in a previous post. And of the most important characteristics of third wave coffee is small batch roasting. “Small batch” is a phrase that implies more than just a limited production of goods. In the world of coffee, it confronts gigantic batch roasters who can roast up to 2,000 lbs at a time.

The Future of Coffee is Connectivity

At Peregrine we are constantly pondering the future of coffee. Are there new and exciting inventions that could change coffee forever? Maybe there are some undiscovered beans somewhere that have pure sugar, chocolate, nuts and fruit at their center? Perhaps...

Why Are We Pretentious About Coffee?

Through a personal story and industry insight, this blog challenges baristas and roasters to replace arrogance with humility, knowledge with kindness, and trendiness with genuine hospitality. This post is a call to return to the heart of coffee: people, passion, and community.

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