Brew


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An essential bean-to-brew guide for making café-quality coffee at home.




The Perfect Brew


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When evil rises, one clumsy witch must save the world. Cassie Black inherits from her crazy Great-Aunt Ophelia a sentient coffee-house, complete with an inter-dimensional portal. Determined to find her aunt’s murderer, Cassie becomes well-acquainted with her aunt’s life and her dream of creating a haven for supernatural beings. What Cassie finds lurking beneath the small town is a nest of infinite darkness ready to invade the world. She alone can stop it. Warning: This story involves a seductive warlock, a tall, dark and annoying detective, and a snarky cat that may steal your heart. As this is a "cozy" there’s no sex or violence on the page but be prepared for some serious romance, mystery, and magic. Buy The Perfect Brew today to start your own magical adventure in the town of Mystic Keep. This is the first book in The Perfect Brew trilogy.




Liquid Education: Coffee


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From growing and harvesting to making the perfect cup. Do you love a good brew but don't know your robusta from your arabica? Do you wish you could espouse the benefits of your Chemex over a French press? Maybe you just want to make a damn good cup of coffee at home. Liquid Education: Coffee will educate you on everything from growing conditions, bean varieties, picking, drying, and roasting to extraction and brewing, milk selection, and drink types. This comprehensive guide will help you navigate the multitude of beans, blends, and equipment available to make your way to your perfect cup.




The Perfect Brew Collection


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When the clumsy young witch Cassie Black inherits a sentient coffeehouse in a small town, she finds herself in a hot cauldron of trouble. Her new home is a haven for supernaturals and the primal forces of good and evil battle on her turf for domination. If the darkness wins, it will spread further into the earthen world. It is up to her to stop it. Cassie wonders why she couldn’t inherit a moth-eaten, old grimoire like other witches. All she had wanted to do was impress her family by handling the final affairs of her aunt. She planned to sign a few papers and be done. But fate had other ideas. A rogue warlock, blue-eyed human cop, and dead-sexy vampire offer their assistance, but the forces of evil are strong and it’s questionable whether her little band of warriors can hold them off. Will Cassie survive her inheritance and protect the town? This is the first trilogy in The Mystic Keep Box Sets Collection. They are urban fantasy stories about powerful women. Witches, warlocks, wizards, and vampires fill the pages with adventure, love, and magic.




How To Brew


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Fully revised and expanded, How to Brew is the definitive guide to making quality beers at home. Whether you want simple, sure-fire instructions for making your first beer, or you’re a seasoned homebrewer working with all-grain batches, this book has something for you. Palmer adeptly covers the full range of brewing possibilities—accurately, clearly and simply. From ingredients and methods to recipes and equipment, this book is loaded with valuable information for any stage brewer.




Coffee


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Want to perfect your home brew? Or hone your barista skills? Let this book be your definitive guide to making the very best coffee. From espresso expert Jason Scheltus, this book will help elevate your morning coffee to absolute brew perfection. Each step of the process--from the farm to your mug is unpacked. You'll learn about the properties of beans, like growing conditions, varieties, picking, drying, and roasting. Then the real nitty-gritty stuff: grinding, tamping, extraction, and manual brewing methods. How do steaming techniques differ between whole milk and soy, or from oat to almond? This ultimate coffee guide tells all. For those playing at home, this book demystifies the inscrutable realm of coffee paraphernalia. Chemex versus pour over. Moccamaster or Moka Express. Syphon and Cold Brew. Learn how to choose the right gadgets for your needs, keeping your countertop free of needless appliances. Did you know that there are seven different classifications of coffee grounds? Most homebrewers are, tragically, using the wrong one. Jason explains how to get your grind right, so you'll achieve the perfect coffee every time. Whether you're a professional barista using a custom-built La Marzocco, or still clinging to the same ragged French press from your freshman dorm, there's always room to improve your coffee skills.




Real Fresh Coffee


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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2017 ‘DEBUT DRINK BOOK’ CATEGORY*When you look at your breakfast cup of coffee and breathe in its gorgeous aromas, you’re at the final stage – delightful for you – of an incredibly complicated process. A ‘simple’ agricultural product that has found its way through many hands and many thousands of miles before becoming the drink you enjoy so much. This is the ultimate guide to the perfect cup – whether you are an everyday enthusiast, a bean obsessive or a budding barista. Explore the exciting global scene; follow the progress of the humble bean from cultivation to coffee shop; and discover how to source, roast, grind and brew fresh coffee with confidence. Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia have been living and loving good coffee since 2001, and they share their expertise and trade secrets, in this indispensable companion to one of the world’s most popular drinks.*Allegra European Coffee Awards: 2015 Best Artisan Coffee Roaster (Europe); 2015 Most Ethical Coffee Company; 2015 Outstanding contribution to the coffee industry: Jeremy Torz; 2014 Best European Coffee Roaster; and 22 Great Taste Awards 2013-15




The Perfect Cup


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For coffee lovers everywhere, The Perfect Cup is the one book you'll need to appreciate coffee and it s growing status as a gourmet beverage. Coffee expert Timothy Castle chronicles the coffee revolution in America and offers state-of-the-art information on everything from the bean itself to brewing and appreciating the perfect cup. Do different brewing methods produce different-tasting coffees? What is the most common mistake people make at home with coffee? Is there reason to be concerned about “chemical” decaffeinating processes? These and many other questions are answered in this book.In a section entitled “How to Buy Coffee and Whom to Buy It From,” Castle includes interviews with more than thirty of America's foremost coffee retailers and roasters. He also provides an overview of the regions of the world where coffee is commonly grown, and offers more than two dozen unusual recipes featuring coffee in sauces, marinades, main courses, and desserts, such as Grilled Coffee–Marinated Lamb Chops, Cappuccino Muffins, and Chocolate Espresso Souffle.




Perfect Matcha


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, p.After years of focusing on his career, Theodore Punch is tired of being alone. But landing a good man isn't easy. When Theo needs a date for an ex-boyfriend's wedding, he knows just the solution-a matchmaker. And there's no better matchmaker than his social butterfly best friend, Camden Ray. There's only one problem: Camden has been in love with Theo for half their lives but doesn't have the guts to come clean. Camden will do anything to make Theo happy, even if it hurts, and he already has a match for Theo in mind-his boss, the handsome owner of the local adult novelty shop. Now there's another problem: Theo has zero experience with toys. Luckily, Camden is only a phone call away and more than happy to walk Theo through naughty gadget lessons. Spicy phone calls, a dash of role play, and a load of pesky emotions brew between them. It's not the match either of them intended but could be the perfect solution to all their problems, if their friendship can survive the infusion of feelings. Perfect Matcha (Bold Brew Book 3) is 35k words of friends-to-lovers, matchmaking fun with plenty of steam. It's part of the multi-author Bold Brew universe centered on an inclusive coffee shop in a fictional city. Each Bold Brew story can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.




Craft Brew


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From the mighty Brew Dog to the much-loved Brooklyn in New York, 50 of the most exciting, ground-breaking and pioneering craft breweries in the world reveal the recipes behind their best beers in this unique, useful and technically accurate book for the homebrewer. With homebrew recipes from the world's best craft breweries, including Brew Dog, Brooklyn Brewery, Kernal, Beavertown, Nogne Ø, Mikkeller and many more, this unique recipe book provides a solid introduction to the kit required for all-grain brewing at home, including a glossary of the terms, and tips and techniques for getting the best brew at home.