How Home Baristas Are Stepping Up During This Pandemic

Posted On Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:18

With the pandemic around the world, people see how much of what they’re used to doing daily have been taken for granted, even the smallest of things such as a steaming cup of coffee from your favorite cafe. Since cafes and restaurants are closed for we can’t even imagine how long, making your own coffee as a home barista is a definite option.

Making a good cup of coffee isn’t easy particularly when you do it from scratch but no worries. You will find that a number of online coffee subscription companies offer a number of products and services to help you. Meanwhile, this article summarizes six (6) key points on how, as a home barista, you can step up your coffee game while confined at home.

1. Coffee Convenience 

Due to imposed quarantine restrictions, many businesses and establishments, coffee shops and cafes included, are closed. You can’t drop by your favorite coffee shop as usual, at least not until the pandemic is stopped. This creates the perfect opportunity to create coffee convenience as a home barista.

With the help of coffee subscriptions, home baristas will find it convenient to brew their own coffee without having to fetch coffee bags or roast beans. With the stresses of lockdowns, enjoying coffee has become even more important, with flavor and convenience at the top of the must-have list.

Even in a worldwide emergency situation, you can maintain a good mood to support physical health. For instance, before you get a coffee subscription service, make sure to make an informed decision so that you get the best and most convenient option. Try and make time to watch this comparison video: 

2. Lower Costs

The pandemic is still causing economic chaos in almost all countries and industries. Shortages and supply-chain disruptions have been addressed to keep coffee beans perfectly screened, roasted, packed, transported, and delivered with appropriate safety precautions. 

Mindful of income disruptions, coffee lovers are maximizing resources and managing daily expenses to make supplies last. If coffee is part of your daily routine, you can save by making your own coffee instead of ordering regular deliveries.

For instance, try and sum up all your coffeehouse purchases in a pre-COVID month and compare it to a monthly coffee subscription that starts at about $12.50 per 12-ounce bag. Then, imagine the adventure of a coffee subscription that delivers to your door a variety of choices that allows you to sample different types of roasts from different regions. 

Finally, enjoy the pleasure of making your own coffee, how home brewing offers the best value, and how your coffee subscription guarantees you a fresh cup, even as your savings assure you of enjoying more cups of coffee at your convenience.

3. Guaranteed Freshness

Coffee lovers know that freshly brewed coffee is way better than instant coffee packs. The rule of thumb of keeping your coffee in maximum freshness is to purchase a fresh bag of coffee beans enough for 30 days. Since the taste and quality of coffee beans lessen over time, you shouldn’t stock up on coffee bags for more than a month. 

Ordering fresh-roasted coffee beans as a part of a coffee subscription ensures that each cup of your coffee is fresh and flavorful. Thus, monthly coffee subscriptions delivered at your doorstep ensures that every cup you brew is full of freshness.

4. Unique Blends With Variety

The boredom that arises out of the “stay at home” mode can only be alleviated by so much internet. The laptop, the notepad, and the cell phone can become old quickly. What new hobbies and interests can keep boredom at bay for a coffee lover? Make a different cup of coffee each time. Don’t check the label and guess the flavor and region. Later, amaze everyone how you can identify coffee from the smell alone, or from one sip. Why not become a coffee connoisseur while you have the chance?

Through making your own coffee with curated selections from coffee subscriptions, you can create unique blends with variations using different types of coffee beans. You might even start a new coffee trend. 

For instance, the Dalgona coffee that recently took over on social media platforms became the people’s quarantine caffeine escape. The whipped coffee beverage named after a Korean candy was not a coffee blend or variation. However, a home barista unleashed a cup of creativity to create a rendition of Phenti Hui, its coffee inspiration. And the rest is history.

Along with frothy coffee trends, you can also try baked coffee recipes to go with your coffee. After the quarantine, you’ll be surprised how many new skills you’ve learned: new froth techniques, identifying coffee varieties, baking coffee goodies, and enjoying it all. 

5. Insightful Knowledge

Since you’re used to ordering your daily coffee at your favorite cafe, you don’t usually pay attention to what goes into your coffee and what makes these flavors. By brewing your own coffee, you’ll eventually discover more about what goes into it and why they taste the way they do. 

Additionally, coffee subscription services don’t simply send coffee bags. Most of them include newsletters exclusively for members. These include coffee tips, recipes, and new offers. 

6. Reliability

In these times of crisis, making your own coffee at home is much more reliable than expecting nearby coffee shops to offer delivery services. You can sign up for coffee subscriptions instead and they’ll always be available. In this way, your coffee source can meet your expectations and provide you with your caffeine needs, instead of risking your life to go outside and purchase coffee packs from the grocery store.

Aside from monthly coffee subscriptions, you can adjust your subscription option to weekly or bi-weekly increments. If you’re out of coffee beans, you can easily use your subscription and have it delivered immediately right after roasting so that you have optimal freshness.

7. Donations For A Cause

Amidst the threats and challenges that come with the pandemic, people with good hearts voluntarily share their wealth to help those in need. In the caffeine world, coffee organizations and companies are supporting communities to provide COVID-19 relief. By being a customer of these coffee industries and supporting their products, you’re doing much for a good cause.

These initiatives particularly focus on communities that have supported coffee industries through the years such as coffee workers and cafe owners affected by unemployment today. Here’s a roundup of coffee companies who initiated to provide relief for their people:

• Imbibe Magazine
• Caffeine Magazine
• Roast Magazine
• Barista Magazine
• Standart

When you avail of their coffee subscriptions and services, a portion of profits goes to different communities and foundations with greater needs during this pandemic. Thus, how you spend your money to get a cup of coffee can be your good act of charity to your fellow men.

Takeaways

For many, the true value of good coffee becomes clear only when you can’t have a good cup when you want it. The qualities of good home baristas come to the fore during the most trying of times: attention to detail, efficiency, empathy, and organization. With these very same qualities, the home baristas of the world are stepping up to the challenge of social distancing, safety, and economic challenges brought on by the worldwide viral infection. You too can do your part with every cup of home-brewed coffee. 

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