Everything But Espresso

By Scott Rao

Scott's second book covers all of the major non-espresso forms of coffee brewing.  Broken up into three parts, Everything but Espresso covers the following: 

Part One - Coffee extraction, extraction measurement, and how to manipulate flavor by changing brewing parameters 

Part Two - How to optimize various brewing methods, such as drip, pour over, press pot, and vacuum pot. 

Part Three - Proper water chemistry and bean storage. 

If you're either an espresso aficionado who wants to spread their wings or someone who cherishes their old press pot, this book is the definitive guide to making the best possible brew at home.

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The Coffee Roasters Companion

By Scott Rao

The Coffee Roaster's Companion is the world's first professional-level how-to book about coffee roasting.  Scott Rao has been a roaster for over two decades and has consulted for hundreds of the world's finest roasters, using over 250 roasting machines in his career.  Scott has put his expertise into this book to help educate roasters everywhere.  No serious coffee roaster should go without this book.

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Coffee Roasting Best Practices

By Scott Rao

Coffee Roasting: Best Practices is the culmination of Scott's 25 years roasting and consulting. It's the most advanced guide ever written about expert-level coffee roasting. There is little overlap with The Coffee Roaster's Companion, which focused on the basics of roasting and different roasting machines. CR:BP focuses solely on advanced techniques to craft and control roast curves, with numerous pages devoted to strategies to avoid "ROR" crashes and flicks, baked coffee, unnecessary roasty-ness, and other roast defects. This book sets the standard for third-wave coffee roasting methodology. 

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