This Week in Coffee - Moonhead Coffee Newsletter
A weekly newsletter on coffee and coffee equipment
This Week in Coffee
A weekly recap of all the news stories about coffee and coffee equipment from the last week. I hope this is useful and, as always, I welcome comments, corrections and feedback.
Equipment
I initially left this because it looked like a pre-launch but I’ve had it confirmed that these are really on sale. They look great to me although I haven’t tried them. I suspect these brushes will be very successful in commercial settings due the importance of keeping the machines especially clean and running well.
Haven’t tried them - I can’t see how they won’t affect flavour. I’d love to hear feedback from anyone based in the US.
Better late than never - I must have missed this originally. Beautiful machine. I am filled with white hot desire for the configurable back panels.
Industry
- Early-Bird Tickets for London Coffee Festival On Sale Give me free tickets London Coffee Festival.
- Jimmy Butler Partners With Onyx Coffee Lab for Coffee Collab What is it with these celebrities and releasing their own brand of coffee? I guess it’s just a high margin, easily white-labelled consumer product. Is one roaster running all this?
Misc
I offer this as an example of bad science journalism in coffee literature - something I come across quite a lot. The claim is that with each “additional” cup of coffee there is “associated with a 4% reduction in hip fracture risk”.
Why is this bad science journalism?
- A “4% reduction in risk” is a very confusing way to describe a change because it’s a percentage change in a percentage change. Your background risk might be 2% so a 4% reduction doesn’t mean -2%, it means a change from 2% to 0.192%.
- The actual study only refers to an extra cup per day - that is to say that the change is associated with the change from one cup to two cups - certainly not each additional cup.
Plus there’s also loads of literature saying this relationship doesn’t exist.