Make café-quality coffee at home with this beautifully designed, hands-on book from U.S. Barista Champion Morgan Eckroth, the creator behind the popular @morgandrinkscoffee. The book explores coffee from bean to cup, covering origins, flavor profiles, and how coffee is grown, roasted, and tasted. Morgan then walks you through every major brewing method, including pour-over, French press, AeroPress, Moka pot, cold brew, and espresso, with clear instructions, illustrations, and QR-code video walkthroughs. You’ll also learn how to build a streamlined home coffee bar and master espresso fundamentals like shot pulling, milk steaming, and latte art. Once you’ve mastered the basics, experiment with 40 inventive, café-style drink recipes that are both impressive and achievable at home -- from a crisp Espresso Tonic to a nostalgic Creamsicle or a floral Limoncello with papaya purée, lime juice, rose water, and espresso. Perfect for coffee lovers, fans of non-alcoholic craft beverages, and anyone drawn to the home café lifestyle, <Coffee, for Here< is an essential companion for making great coffee, right where you are.

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Morgan Eckroth (they/she) is an internationally awarded barista and video creator with the handle MorganDrinksCoffee on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. They specialize in signature coffee drink recipes and coffee education with an approach that’s grounded in warm hospitality and inventive flavors. They currently live in Portland, Oregon, and have the titles of 2022 US Barista Champion, World Barista Runner-Up, and two-time US Barista Runner-Up.

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Make café-quality coffee at home with this beautiful, hands-on book from U.S. Barista Champion Morgan Eckroth, the creator behind the popular @morgandrinkscoffee.

Coffee, for Here is both a practical handbook and a guide to building real coffee skills at home, designed to help you brew with confidence and curiosity. Whether you’re just beginning your coffee journey or ready to refine your technique, Morgan — your friendly internet barista — meets you where you are, breaking down each step so even more complex methods feel approachable.

The book explores coffee from bean to cup, covering origins, flavor profiles, and how coffee is grown, roasted, and tasted. Morgan then walks you through every major brewing method, including pour-over, French press, AeroPress, Moka pot, cold brew, and espresso, with clear instructions, illustrations, and QR-code video walkthroughs. You’ll also learn how to build a streamlined home coffee bar and master espresso fundamentals like shot pulling, milk steaming, and latte art.

Once you’ve mastered the basics, experiment with 40 inventive, café-style drink recipes that are both impressive and achievable at home — from a crisp Espresso Tonic to a nostalgic Creamsicle or a floral Limoncello with papaya purée, lime juice, rose water, and espresso.

Perfect for coffee lovers, fans of non-alcoholic craft beverages, and anyone drawn to the home café lifestyle, Coffee, for Here is an essential companion for making great coffee, right where you are.

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Introduction

I grew up in a “we’ll stick with water” family in Corvallis, Oregon. Beverages in general were a rare and treasured luxury that most frequently came in the form of tea or noncaffeinated root beer. Yet, in some strange twist of fate, I write to you now while neck-deep in a career that is entirely beverage-focused.

As a child, I spent much of my time making “potions” in our backyard birdbath with murky water, sand, and dubiously sourced berries. As a teen, I walked into a local coffee shop—Tried & True Coffee—for the first time and realized that this was a place where my potions could be made into reality. Steam billowed out from behind the espresso machine, thick golden liquid was poured into cups, and I was greeted with a warm smile.

I was continually drawn back to that coffee shop—where I would later get my first barista job. My sixteen-ounce mocha and I would plop ourselves in one of the seats along the back bar, soaking in the hustle and bustle of the space. Occasionally, I would work up the nerve to ask the baristas questions.

*What does that machine do?
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*How do you make flowers with the milk?
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*How are you today?
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*What’s the point of that?
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*Could you explain the difference between a cortado and cappuccino one more time?
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Silly questions, I assumed, ones that felt naive. Yet each one was answered in full and with care.
*It’s where we brew filter coffee.
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*By adding air to the milk and adjusting the height of the pitcher, we’re able to bring the milk to the surface of the drink.
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*It’s been a busy day, but a good one.
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*That’s how we clean the steam wand.
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*For sure, a cappuccino has approximately an ounce more milk and, traditionally, a slightly different milk texture.
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I’ll spare you the purple prose of how I fell in love with coffee because, in truth, it’s simple: Coffee felt like home to me in a way that it had no right to. I had not been raised drinking coffee, nor had my parents. I had none of the nostalgia for dark-roasted coffee aromas that most people do. By chance, I had simply stumbled upon something that would irreversibly change my life. I was hired at Tried & True Coffee in 2017, and, from the first moment I stepped behind the coffee bar, I knew that I wanted to make and serve people delicious coffee for as long as life would let me.

Then, on an otherwise inconsequential spring day in 2018, I stumbled upon a YouTube video of Agnieszka Rojewska winning the World Barista Championship. My jaw hit the floor as I watched the Polish champion expertly serve a panel of judges beautiful beverages—the likes of which I’d never seen before. I hadn’t even heard of barista championships until that point, but I instantly knew I had to learn more.

Later that year, I rallied my courage as a relatively inexperienced barista, and I entered the United States Barista Championship. I was hooked, and in 2022—after several seasons of hard lessons and challenges—I won. Competition molded my perception of coffee from something that has right and wrong approaches to something more akin to a playground. The textures and flavors possible within coffee and coffee beverages were constantly on my mind as I continued to challenge my personal beliefs of what coffee could be. As I furthered my competitive coffee journey and developed my style as a drink maker, I earned the titles of 2022 World Barista Runner-Up and two-time US Barista Runner-Up.

Alongside competing, I began sharing what coffee means to me on the internet under the moniker atMorganDrinksCoffee (a little on the nose, I know). After years of sharing barista stories, coffee tutorials, and signature drink recipes to more than eight million people online, I’ve finally come to realize what drew me to coffee all those years ago.

Coffee meets you wherever you are with warmth and comfort—it doesn’t matter whether you take it black or with cream and sugar. Within the pages of this book, you’ll find everything you need to make delicious coffee in all the ways I know how (and maybe a little bit more).