About Beckytable
Beckytable is a small blog about making coffee and tea at home and taking your time with it. It’s written for people who own a kettle and a favorite mug, not a café.
What the blog covers
- Pour-over and French press brew guides, with ratios, grind and water temperature as starting points.
- Loose-leaf tea basics: steeping times, water temperature and how much leaf to use.
- Mugs and ceramics: picking them, caring for them, and why the one you reach for keeps winning.
- Coffee and tea gift ideas for people who already brew at home.
- Slow morning routines built around a cup.
Where the numbers come from
Guides are signed Mae Holloway, a pen name used for every post here. Ratios and temperatures come from specialty coffee and tea industry guidance and are checked against those sources before a post goes up. An AI tool helps sketch an outline; a writer rewrites the draft and checks every number. Taste varies, so treat each figure as a place to begin, then adjust: more coffee if a cup tastes thin, less if it tastes heavy.
What you won’t find here
- Health or medical claims about caffeine, and no drinks sold as cleanses or weight-loss aids.
- Coffee drinks made with alcohol.
- Sponsored reviews. No brand pays for a mention.
- Politics or gambling.
About the shop
Beckytable has a small shop of ceramic mugs. On the blog the mugs are shown for reference only; posts never depend on them, and a guide reads the same whether or not you ever look at the shop.
Questions or a correction? Write to contact@beckytable.com.