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Grouch was lucky enough to be featured as one of the 10 best coffee roasters in WA! Check out the awesome write up from The Coffee Post!  "Grouch only deals with green bean suppliers that are transparent and can provide a paper trail of everyone along the coffee chain, especially the farmers, bei...

Get your camp on, a no nonsense guide to brewing on the campsite. The sun has started peaking through the clouds again and it’s time to pull out the camp gear, air out the tent and get ready to head down south. We’re going to talk you through the best way to make coffee on the campsite, whether y...

TERMINOLOGY Dose:This is the term used to describe the amount of coffee dosed into your portafilter per coffee. When making espresso it is good to weigh the amount of coffee being put into your portafilter as it allows you to repeat the same brewing process time after time and make small tweaks t...

How hard should I tamp my coffee is a question we hear often from home baristas.  To give you more of an idea about how hard to tamp, let's first look at why we tamp our espresso puck. WHY TAMP? We compact (tamp) the coffee in our portafilters so that the water being pushed through the bas...

Everybody wants that cafe quality coffee at home but sometimes we get in our own way. We’re running through the five most common mistakes made by customers on their home machines and what they can do to solve them. It is our mission to get you making flawless coffee on whatever machine you are ma...

Nailing your coffee grind is the key to an amazing cup of coffee. Different brew methods require different sized grind to ensure you are getting enough contact between the brew water and coffee grounds. We are going to run through the most common brew methods people use to make coffee and the cor...