RESOURCES

Coffee is a highly collective effort. From farming, importing, roasting, and brewing, our efforts are the direct results of innumerable hands, ideas, and visions.

Here is a short list of people and organizations that we have learned a lot from. Simply click their name to be brought directly to their websites. It was an easy choice to do this, because just as they have uplifted us in some way, it is time for us to do the same.

From simple brewing knowledge to what simplicity in a cafe can look like, this list contains those we are most inspired by.

Ray Murakawa 

Always challenges methods and is constantly testing the bounds of what coffee brewing can be. Created the Melodrip coffee tool.

Taste Science

Brilliant resource for understanding taste from many heavily scientific angles.

Not Bad Coffee

Another excellent resource for understanding flavor on both a molecular and psychological level.

Kurasu Kyoto

A specialty coffee shop, roaster, and equipment supplier in Kyoto. Beautiful writing, design, and thoughtfulness.

Saynosangyo CAFEC

A Japan-based coffee company. Really rich in scientific content, specifically on osmotic brewing.

Boycott Coffee

One of our many Memphis friends. Uncovers the supply chain, transparency issues, and ethical importance in the coffee industry. Proactive in making coffee as accessible to as many people as possible.

Coffee ad Astrada 

A science based coffee approach, as digested by an astrophysicist. Where Sustain learned how to measure extraction yields and understand TDS at a deeper level. 

Dos Niñas Coffee Importers

Family owned and operated coffee importer from Guatemala. Great resource for farm education.

Cxffee Black

A Memphis friend and black-owned coffee company. Seeks to highlight the black history of coffee and provide others platforms to create.

James Hoffman

Great overall concepts and an extremely clear communicator. 

Ruth Brown

An author who writes from a playful perspective, but has good core concepts.