Coffee 101: Lessons from brewing school

By ERICA DIETSCHE The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

I love everything about coffee — that is, everything except the sky-high prices. Sick of making bad coffee at home and tired of paying lots of money for someone else to make it for me, I jumped at the chance to learn from people who make coffee for a living. Surely the coffee they make at home doesn’t taste like sludge!

Now, having learned my lessons at Brewing School, I feel almost as talented as a barista.

If only they could teach me how to give myself enough time in the morning to prepare it.

Lesson 1. You can try this at home.

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