How to Spice Up Your Coffee Routine

Now in the thick of winter, it’s easy for the season’s monotony to sink in. But adding some flair to your daily coffee routine is a great way to jazz up your day from the get-go. Schuil’s wide variety of coffees paired with all of the fun brewing gear we offer could be just the spice your winter needs. Here are some of our favorite ways to enliven your coffee routine at home: 

Try a new brewing methodAll brewing methods imbue the coffee they make with a distinct flavor profile, and can also affect the cup’s mouthfeel, acidity, and balance. Many of us are accustomed to the flavors of a drip coffee brewer – the kind you find in most home kitchens. Coffees brewed in that style are nicely balanced and sweet and typically have close to a medium body.For an alternative to drip coffee, there are several “full-immersion” brewing methods you can try. A french press is one of the more popular full-immersion brewers, but the versatility of an Aeropress – another popular full-immersion brewer – can provide you with endless coffee brewing fun.
 
Make flavored simple syrups
Making your own flavored simple syrups helps bring the cafe experience home and allows for limitless flavor possibilities. Start with an easy, single ingredient – like vanilla – or try your hand at a flavor combo like cardamom and orange. Recipes for both are below.

 
Vanilla Syrup:

- Bring 1 cup of water to a boil
- Stir in 1 cup of sugar and 3 teaspoons of vanilla
- Reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes, and remove from heat.

 
Cardamom Orange Syrup:
- Bring 1 cup of water to a boil
- Stir in 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of crushed cardamom pods, and 1 teaspoon of orange extract
- Reduce to a simmer for 20 minutes, and remove from heat
- Strain out cardamom pods 

 

To quite literally add spice to your coffee routine, you can look no further than our expansive collection of spiced flavored coffees. From flavors of French Toast to Horchata, your taste buds won’t find themselves bored anytime soon. And similar to syrup flavor combos, you can try mixing and matching different flavors of coffee together, too! 

 
Play with your grind size

In a previous blog, we talked about how to optimize your coffee’s grind. A fun way to spice up and hone in your coffee brewing is to make small adjustments to your coffee’s grind size from morning to morning to see where it brews best. You can keep a brew log to take notes on what you liked or didn’t like about each grind size to keep track of your trials. Bodum’s Burr Grinder comes equipped with many different, easy-to-quantify grind settings that will make this even more fun!
 
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