Scott Lush's Coffee Blog

What do you get when an artist is inspired by coffee?

Are you a germophobe?

Here's something to worry about with the coffee served on an airplane. It might even make you jump out of your airplane seat. Fasten your seatbelt before reading...!

Here's an excellent taste test from Cook's Illustrated that shows how inexpensive drip coffee machines give you a taste that's... inexpensive and bitter.

Cook's Illustrated has fabulous recipes and taste tests and they are very experienced in what they do.

Here are fascinating taste test results from Cook's Illustrated based on a survey of 8 premium coffees.

The French have given us a couple of good things -- wine, cheese, the Tour de France, funny berets, and the French Press method of making coffee. Let me explain why this is my favorite method of making coffee and why it's well worth trying.

Here's a hilarious song and video about the French approach to drinking coffee.

I'm crazy about coffee.

Red Barn serves a delightful lightly roasted coffee out of its store near the entryway to Faneuil Hall in Boston. I enjoyed the smoothness and light roast of a latte at Red Barn, and my wife’s cup of regular coffee was also light and tasty. The staff here said that the coffee had been roasted within the past 1-2 days at their headquarters in Hopkinton MA.

Here's a great video by Malcolm Gladwell talking about spaghetti sauce but also mentioning coffee.

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For my first breakout from Starbucks, I decided to try a coffee that is roasted near my home in Boston MA.

Because it's my last club of Starbucks for hopefully a long, long time.