05/20/2026
Hot take: you already know how to taste coffee.
Smell → sip hot → sip cooler → notice what changed. That’s actually it.
We’ve been learning from Jessica Easto’s How to Taste Coffee and it’s the rare coffee book that actually makes you feel more confident, not less. (Not affiliated. Not a sponsor. Just genuinely into it.)
If you taste plum where we wrote blueberry — you’re not wrong. Aroma is just memory. Yours is different from ours, and that’s the whole point.
Field Guide 01– more of these coming🌱