How to make the best coffee at home

A world-leading coffee expert shows how to make barista-level coffee at home

James Hoffmann is the co-founder of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, a multi-award-winning coffee roasting company based in East London. He is also the World Barista Champion 2007, having won the UK Barista competition in both 2006 and 2007. He has a YouTube channel with more than 2.3 million subscribers, where he makes videos about anything and everything to do with coffee and an instagram following of more than 760k. He is the author of The World Atlas of Coffee (first edition 2014, second edition 2018, third edition 2025) and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Make the Best Coffee at Home (2022).