Coffee Made Simple | A Beginner’s Coffee Guide

New to coffee, or ready to understand what you already enjoy? Coffee Made Simple is a beginner-friendly digital guide from Form & Brew. It explains the basics in plain language and gives you simple ways to explore coffee at your own pace.

Learn how growing regions and roast levels can shape flavor, use the flavor wheel to put words to what you notice, and try easy recipes for popular brew methods—including AeroPress. You’ll also find a visual guide to familiar café drinks, beginner-friendly grinder basics, fillable tasting sheets, and a coffee shop passport.

The tasting sheets and passport are designed for repeat use. Save a copy to your phone or tablet, then duplicate the pages when you want to record more coffees or cafés.

WHAT’S INSIDE

• Beginner-friendly notes on coffee regions and roast levels

• A flavor wheel with a simple guide for using it

• Recipes and taste notes for drip coffee, pour over, French press, espresso, cold brew, moka pot, and AeroPress

• A visual guide to popular café drinks

• Basics on whole beans and how grind size can affect taste

• Fillable coffee tasting sheets

• A coffee shop passport with space for notes

• Phone-friendly pages you can save and duplicate

A NOTE FROM THE CREATOR

I’ve been a coffee enthusiast for more than 20 years and especially immersed in coffee since 2020. I created this guide to share a straightforward starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about coffee.

AI DISCLOSURE

AI tools assisted with organizing and editing portions of this guide. The brewing methods, recipes, and measurements are based on the methods I use and supplied.

DIGITAL PRODUCT

This is a digital PDF download; no physical item will be shipped. Use a PDF reader that supports form fields to fill in the worksheets, or print them. For personal use only. Please don’t copy, share, or resell the guide.