I should probably be writing about Christmas trees, Nisse, and Glögg, but over the last month, there has been a lot of talk about aged coffee, and the more I try and stop thinking about it the more it is taking over my thoughts! I am not referring to Old Brown Java or Monsooned Malabar, […]
Back at the launch of Fairtrade in the UK, I was a young twenty-something (optimistic) naive guy who went to the big smoke (AKA London!) to rub shoulders with “the ethical future of coffee”.I envisioned this as a new movement, making coffee more fair. I had lots of ideas about lowering the cost of coffee […]
Although the name gives it away, I have been to a few shows lately and have come to the conclusion that most “coffee shows” are a bubble. Competing for the biggest space to tell your competition that you have spent more. More is more, all very dull stuff, all ego, and no real customers. Coffee […]
In a recent poll, it has been revealed that coffee has overtaken tea as our beverage of choice. This is the kind of headline that is branded on every newsfeed, just to get your attention. You can call me lazy, but the context is here. The sad thing is that the majority of what is […]
This week, we are getting our metaphorical teeth into our new coffees from Tesfaye Bekeley, many of you will be more familiar with the name Suke Quto. These coffees are fantastic examples of what one man can achieve, with a little help. I was sent a video yesterday and Menno the founder of *Trabocca said […]
It is no easy fix, changing how your coffee bag looks after (very nearly) 25 years. The aim from our perspective was to make a bag that felt good to hold and looked like a vessel that both our suppliers would be happy to be seen in and our customers to hold. Having spent the […]
World of Coffee 2023 Athens World of Coffee review. The atmosphere at WoC is electric. If you have ever been really passionate about something and you don’t always have the place to share it, well for the coffee world this is it. From coffee cuppings, and barista competitions to environmental and packaging seminars this is […]
Firstly, before I start talking about “black tea”, I am referring to tea without milk, so that could be white, green, or black tea. The big question about black tea, alongside dark chocolate and some berries and apples, too is whether they contain flavanols. A recent 3-year study suggested that some people in their early […]
There is so much ambiguity around the world in terms of the language that coffee roasters use about their roast levels and quality. The latter is of course not what this one is about. In the US there is a list of common names like cinnamon, city, and full city plus. These don’t mean a […]
You may have heard me say before that I am one of the luckiest people alive and experiences like last Friday prove it, to me. In my friend list, which isn’t exhaustive because I am what my parents called “a home bird”. I work at JGC and then on the farm and once in a […]
