How to impress your friends with coffee!

Are you looking to impress your friends with your coffee brewing skills? Then you will appreciate the tips mentioned in this article. As you’re about to learn, great coffee starts with how you grind your beans… and up until you drink it, there are many important details to keep in mind if you want the best results!

Expand Your Palate

If you’re really serious about expanding your coffee making from merely adequate to legendary, you have to delve into the subtleties of flavor and texture. Did you know that you can effectively increase your appreciation of coffee by learning how to savor it – as opposed to merely gulping it down for the caffeine?

A fun way to expand the palate while entertaining your friends is to get hold of two very different types of coffee with strikingly different flavors and aromas. Brew both coffees separately, and enjoy how different they smell and taste. Use coffee tasting as an opportunity to interact with your friends and talk about the sensations around the beverages, and you’ll find the entire experience will be surprisingly rewarding.

Grind Your Beans

There are solid scientific reasons backing up the importance of using freshly ground coffee when you want to really taste the full potential of coffee brewing. Simply put, ground coffee will lose its flavor, aroma and potency within a couple of hours… leaving only a bland, mellow allusion to is full glory.

You may think that storing your ground coffee in an airtight jar will help preserve its qualities, and that is definitely the way to go when storing your coffee beans. But if you really want to impress your friends with your coffee brewing expertise and skill, then grinding those coffee beans must be the first step in the process.

In this day and age of espresso machines for everyone, it’s time to reclaim the lost art of impressive coffee making. It’s time to expand your palate, to fancy up your foaming and to outright turn your coffee cup into a piece of art. Are you ready?

Fancy Foam

When you’re looking to rise from the pure depths of black coffee and get a little creative with your caffeinated concoctions, then it’s time to get artistic and learn about fancy foams. You may be surprised to find that creating an Instagram-worthy cappuccino is really not that hard when you master the basics!

You can produce delicious foam easily using an espresso coffee machine, and learning about milk steaming. Top that foam with a little powdered cocoa, and you’ll have a perfect canvas to start creating inventive and delicious designs. Try using a toothpick and other small utensils to twirl the foam into an impressive design. The final ingredient to master the fancy foam is just experienced… the more often you do it, the better you’ll get at doing it.

Present it Beautifully

To really get the most of your coffee and achieve some memorable bonding time with your friends, you need to put the focus on the experience rather than the drink. In order to conjure a memorable experience, you will find that presentation can be a powerful and most useful tool… and having the right accessories will help!

Asides from learning how to create that fancy foam look, you should make sure to get a nice coffee set to really set the stage for the experience. You may want to add some pastries into the mix, which can be useful to temper some taste buds… especially if you’re trying to convince your guests to enjoy coffee the right way – with no sugar added.