The Thinking Cup Blog — Stumptown Coffee

Thinking Cup’s carefully chosen Third Wave Coffee roaster, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, has yet again raised the bar. In April of this year, Stumptown released a cold brew coffee housed in a nitro-pressurized can. However, they upped their cold brew game yet again, recently releasing their annual Grand Cru coffee bean as a glass-bottled RTD cold brew! This cold brew is packed in 750 ml bottles similar to wine bottles. It’s made from single-origin Gesha beans—one of the most recognizable and highly regarded Arabica varieties. Stumptown’s 2015 Grand Cru was cold-brewed directly by the roaster using Finca El Puenta Gesha beans...

Coffee lovers in Boston are continually searching for better ways to enjoy their favorite drinks. One new brewing method may possibly have the appropriate answer. Oftentimes, when coffee and water is combined for an active brewing, water is pushed through the coffee in one form or another. However, an interesting new brewing system named the American Press which recently surfaced does the exact opposite. While grounds are sealed in a filter basket, they are manually pushed through water during the brewing process instead of the reverse. While using the American Press to brew, factors such as input ratio, water temperature,...

New England might very well be you’re to go to place if you are hoping to find the very best coffee shops. More so Boston, which happens to be home to some of the best coffee shops ever seen. This is not to say however that finding the best coffee shop is as easy as it seems. On the contrary, it might prove to be the most daunting task one can ever undertake. More often than not entailing a number of quick guides of what one should look for. The first thing you need to consider when looking for the...

Boston may not be referred to as “Beantown” because of the city’s love of coffee, but given its extensive and ardent relationship with a good cup of joe, perhaps it’s time things changed. Believe it or not, Boston’s relationship with coffee dates all the way back to the 1600s, when Dorothy Jones of Boston was issued the first license to sell coffee according to several sources. In fact, The Boston Tea Party was planned back in 1773 in the Green Dragon—a coffee house. As you can see, Bostonians love their coffee and as a result, most find themselves on a...