If you order “a coffee,” what will you get? It depends where you are in the world.

With every iteration of the speciality coffee world’s evolution come new terms for folks like us to learn. One of the latest is “micro-lot” coffee. It sounds interesting, it even carries a whiff of the scientific, but what does it mean?

These days boutique coffee shops offer about seventeen different ways to make a cup of coffee. Each of those different brewing methods will produce slightly different flavors. To get the sweetest, smoothest cup of coffee, though, your best bet is to skip the in-the-moment brewing all together and go with a bottle of cold brew.