Caffeine on the Go
Travel Coffee Kit
Don't settle for subpar coffee just because you're away from home.
Some Like It Cold
Our Guide to Iced and Cold Brew Coffees
Two cold brewing methods, one happy drinker (you).
Kitchen Equipment Guide
Essential Kitchen Gear
Or, how to stock your kitchen from scratch. (Puns intended.)
Meta
Our Best Guides of the Past Year
We've written a lot of excellent guides. In case you missed them the first time around, let us catch you up.
Coffee Gear Guide
Awesome Coffee Gear, Part 2
We've only begun to get nerdy about coffee paraphernalia.
Quality Linkage
Quality Linkage: Animal Adaptations, Inventor Portraits, and the Importance of Donuts
A weekly roundup of links to articles, videos, and/or photographs that have a focus on art, life, hard work, simplicity, creativity, and mindful living.
Camping
Some of Our Favorite Camping Gear
Adventure is out there! If you intend to seek it out, here's some gear to bring along with you.
Coffee Maker Review
The BUNN Velocity Brew Coffee Maker
For those moments when just one cup isn’t enough, turn to a BUNN Velocity Brew.
3sixteen Travel Coffee Case
A handmade, 4oz. Horween leather bag with brass accents, designed to carry your travel coffee kit.
Chemex Ottomatic
Chemex's new automatic coffee brewer, designed to work with any of their iconic carafes.
Blue Bottle Moka Pot
A modern reinvention of an Italian classic.
Holiday Buying Guide
The Christmas Catalog
We have put together the few items which meet a certain criteria: they are products we own and use; we personally vouch for their quality; and things that are useful or enjoyable to use.
Coffee Guide
Awesome Coffee Gear
Making great coffee from home is almost entirely a matter of having decent gear, fresh beans, and a recipe.
Handpresso Wild Hybrid — Portable Espresso Maker
The Handpresso Wild Hybrid is a travel-sized espresso maker for coffee addicts on the move. It won't replace a $1,000 kitchen machine but it produces surprisingly good results for what it is. The brewing process takes a little practice, but it's worth the effort to get it right and produce some lovely crema. The top Amazon review suggests preheating the reservoir beforehand,…
KeepCup Brew
(Photo credit: Alex Bernson, Sprudge.com) While we're on the subject of coffee, we should talk about an awesome vessel for consuming the stuff. The KeepCup Brew—a brand-new glass version of the plastic KeepCup Original—is a reusable coffee cup that aims to do away with wasteful, disposable paper cups and look great doing it. If you frequently stop in for a quick cup…
Perfect Coffee at Home
Perfect Coffee at Home, written by former U.S. Marines Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez and available only on the iBookstore for iPad, is all about the joys and methods of brewing an awesome cup—you guessed it—at home. They explain all the factors that go into every cup, and how you can tweak them step-by-step to get the best results. Haft and Suarez…