Blog posts

April 27, 2025

Top 5 Essential Equipment to Start Brewing at Home

New to coffee and don’t know where to start? We’ve curated this list of coffee equipment that will help improve your brewing skills at home. The key to brewing good...

Smile Tiger Recipes: The Perfect Cold Brew

Cold brew season is fast approaching! Summer is right around the corner to bring us the warmer weather and great sunshine. There's nothing better than enjoying a fresh glass of...

How to Understand Coffee Roast Levels

Introduction: Not all roasters define roast colour the same: for us at Smile Tiger, our Black Tambourine is a dark roast, but to other roasters it may be seen as...

Brewing at home essentials : Aeropress Coffee Brew Guide

The Inverted Method: There are other recipes that don't involve inverting the AeroPress, using different steep times, varying methods of stirring, stirring multiple times during the brew, brewing a concentrated...

Brewing at home essentials : Chemex Coffee Brew Guide

Smile Tiger's Chemex Brew Guide The Chemex filter drip method eliminates bitterness, and the slow brewing allows full flavour from the best coffee beans. We use a 1:16 brew ratio (1...

Brewing at home essentials : V60 Pour Over Coffee Guide

Smile Tiger’s Hario V60 Pour Over Brew Guide The Hario V60 Pour Over allows for a simple hands-on brewing process that relies on the technique of the brewer. We use a...