For the longest time, the coffee community only cared about water’s impact ruining espresso machine boilers and kettles. But what about water’s impact on coffee flavour?
 
In this episode, I tell the story of how the specialty coffee community came to understand water chemistry: the pioneering work of the computational chemist Christopher Hendon and British roaster Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, the genesis of the SCA’s Water Quality Handbook, and where we are today understanding the impact of minerals on our water.
 
I strongly recommend listening to the two episodes before this one first Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step & The two ingredients in water that ruin your coffee, and the ancient story behind them
 
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Want to go deeper into water chemistry?
Read the <a href='https://bit.ly/3TyWM5X'>SCA’s Water Quality Handbook</a>
<a href='https://bit.ly/3TqOFbq'>BWT White Paper</a> on the effects of magnesium (German)
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Do an online <a href='http://bit.ly/3xlIOel'>Certificate of Advanced Studies</a> at the Coffee Excellence Centre
 
Season 3 of The Science of Coffee is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:
 
<a href='https://bit.ly/3CvjkBq'>The Coffee Quest</a> | <a href='https://bit.ly/3EEpuxN'>BWT</a> | <a href='https://bit.ly/3PMv4ma'>TODDY</a> | <a href='https://bit.ly/40BGeiS'>Algrano</a> | <a href='https://bit.ly/3Wzywo1'>Probat</a>
 
Note: this is a reworked version of my 2022 episode Water for Brewing Coffee, including portions of my 2024 episode How to think like a scientist, part 2.

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