Blog — Coffee 101

The sun is shining, the days are warmer, and it is finally time for iced coffee! Here are our best tips for making an incredible iced coffee. We love the Japanese Style Iced Coffee, which is a pour-over coffee directly onto ice. It makes for a clean, iced coffee that allows the flavours to sing out.   Making iced coffee is just like making regular coffee, except you need to account for the ice. Keep it simple: brew coffee twice as strong and enjoy over ice!   How to Make an Iced Pour Over   4 tbsp (24 g) of ground coffee   210...

Love a great cup of coffee but looking for something a little ‘cooler’? Here’s our favourite recipe for a cold brew. Make it the night before and enjoy it all day.   Overnight Cold Brew Recipe  Put 60g of coffee in a French Press, 1L mason jar, or other container*  Add 1L of cold water  Steep 12-16 hours, gently shaking, or agitating it once midway  *We recommend making cold brew in a French Press, it makes the straining much easier!     Planning to add ice or milk? Make it a bit stronger, try 80g of coffee.  For the best cold brew...

You’ve been sneaking coffee grounds into your outdoor composter (or maybe right into your garden beds), but you catch yourself wondering ‘are these coffee grounds even good for the soil’? Don’t worry, we’ll break it down for you. (See what we did there?)

In this interview we find out some easy at-home brewing tips for improving your coffee game from Joshua, Level Ground's Director of Coffee and Q-Grader.