About Online Coffee Guide

Online Coffee Guide helps readers understand coffee without needing to decode vague packaging, conflicting brewing advice, or origin marketing language. The site focuses on practical explanations that can improve everyday coffee decisions.

The site publishes step-by-step brew guides, coffee drink recipes, origin profiles, troubleshooting help, equipment explainers, and longer educational articles. Each page is intended to explain what matters, what can vary, and what to try next.

Explore Brew Methods, Coffee Drinks, Troubleshooting, Origins, Guides, and Blog Articles.

Coffee advice is most useful when it explains tradeoffs. A brew method may be convenient but less expressive. An origin name may set expectations but cannot guarantee flavor. A grinder or espresso setup may be powerful but unnecessary for many readers.

Pages aim to make those tradeoffs clear so readers can choose the coffee, method, and equipment that fit their taste, budget, and workflow.

Every page begins with a practical coffee question. Our editors draw on their own preparation experience and use online sources to check the details. Recipes use measured quantities, with matching amounts in the instructions and recipe card. The editorial team reviews the content for accuracy, clear instructions, working links and relevant images.

Origin, history and nutrition claims are supported by sources suited to the subject. Differences in tradition or technique are stated clearly. Product-category and historical guides use manufacturers' instructions, labels and other references, with the author's own observations where they help the reader.

We correct mistakes and update pages when clearer evidence or more useful guidance becomes available. Our preparation, sourcing, corrections, disclosure and review standards are explained in the Editorial Policy.

Online Coffee Guide has four editors with complementary focus areas: buying guidance, drink preparation, regional coffee culture, and brewing science. Each profile explains the editor's background, responsibilities, and the subjects they review.

Edward Miller

Buying guides and research editor

Edward has worked in cafés for eight years and has owned and run a third-wave café with Mara Ellison since 2024. He edits Online Coffee Guide's buying guides and gear comparisons and writes its guides to packaged and convenience coffee.

• Buying guides and equipment comparisons
• Guides to instant, bottled, canned and batch-brewed coffee
• Product research and source verification
• Recommendation criteria and product limitations
• Pricing, availability, and specification checks
• Affiliate disclosure and commercial independence

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Mara Ellison

Drinks and espresso editor

Mara has worked in cafés for ten years and has owned and run a third-wave café with Edward Miller since 2024. She writes Online Coffee Guide's drink recipes, espresso guidance and milk texture advice, drawing on her preparation experience and checking the details against online sources.

• Practical drink preparation, espresso and milk-texture guidance
• Recipe quantities, units, equipment requirements, and instruction consistency
• Checking regional names, history and nutrition figures against cited sources
• Image relevance, captions, and visual credibility
• Beginner-friendly tone without oversimplifying coffee

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Ali Can Doralar

Turkish coffee and regional coffee culture editor

Ali Can Doralar has made Turkish and regional coffee for nine years and writes Online Coffee Guide's regional coffee content from Istanbul. His work focuses on household cezve technique, original-language terminology, foam and serving context, supported by sources close to each tradition.

• Turkish coffee, cezve, ibrik, foam, grind size, and serving custom review
• Greek, Arabic, Bosnian, Armenian, qahwa, and other regional coffee context
• Terminology checks for cultural accuracy, including when cezve, ibrik, qahwa, and related names should not be flattened into generic labels
• Traditional equipment, etiquette, and serving ritual guidance

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Jason Harris

Brewing science and troubleshooting editor

Jason Harris has brewed coffee at home for fifteen years. He writes the site's brew-method guides and its black-coffee and cold-brew recipes, with a focus on measurable adjustments and practical troubleshooting.

• Sour, bitter, weak, watery, burnt, and inconsistent coffee diagnostics
• Espresso shot timing, channeling, puck prep, dose, yield, and grinder review
• Pour over, French press, AeroPress, moka pot, cold brew, and drip troubleshooting
• Calculator assumptions, buyer-guide criteria, method comparison logic, and source-supported technical claims

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Reader questions, corrections, and source suggestions can be sent through the Contact Page.