A Collection of Coffee Blogs

I'm relatively new to the culture of coffee. I've loved it for a long time - I even pretended to love it before I actually did, because it made me feel mature and better equipped to produce something brilliant - but I had no idea how much there was to KNOW about coffee. For most of my life I was thoroughly content to toss some cheap-bought grounds into a filtered-coffee machine and drink down whatever came out. I had no idea there could be so many complexities.

I joined on with The Meeting Place Cafe just a few months ago, and as I began my (intensive) barista training, I realized that coffee is actually a multi-faceted, thickly layered, science-laden PROCESS. From growth to roast to brew, there are a myriad of things you can or can't, should or shouldn't, do... A thousand variations to be found, a hundred mistakes to be unknowingly made!

But in my endeavor to understand more about coffee, the sprawling World Wide Web has come through for me. (Doesn't it always?)
This is an entirely opinion-based blog post - without a really regimented or specific list of criteria, I'm simply sharing the sites that did the best at both capturing my attention and educating me a bit more on the ins and outs of this very particular culture. I hope you're able to find the following collection of blogs and blog posts interesting, helpful, educational, or some combination of the three. Or some other positive, unlisted adjective.

So here's a glimpse of my maiden voyage to greater coffee education, via the wild internet. Happy exploring!

The Blog List:

1. Five Senses Coffee (www.fivesenses.com.au/blog/)
2. Sprudge (www.sprudge.com/)
3. The Coffee Compass (www.thecoffeecompass.com/)
4. The Way to Coffee (www.thewaytocoffee.com/)
5. The Coffeetographer (thecoffeetographer.com/)​