I know, what a title! Over the last week, I have had a little more thinking time than usual and it is obvious that there is going to be a pinch. Please take the first part here as facts that we are all aware of, not me whinging about how things are. Negative effects on […]
Milk temperature, texture, and coffee flavour. This post is a follow-on from milk and coffee. It is more of an open question than a list of facts or reasons for doing things. In food service, it is common for professionals to heat milk-based drinks to a point where it is not great for the gut, […]
Milk and Coffee If you had bought coffee 130 years ago from one of my ancestors, you probably would want to add sugar and or milk to it. Due to how we look at coffee today and the rapid positive changes that have occurred over the last 25 years, it can be a very different […]
Organic coffee Playing by the new rules. I felt I had to write this somewhere, as we have a handful of coffees that have been grown as organic, processed diligently, and shipped across the world. They got to Europe and stopped being Organic for us if we follow the current rule of law. Technically it […]
Here is our friend Indi Khanna. You might recognise him as the guy on the bike with his dog max on the front of every Nilgiri Tea box, bag, and (biodegradable GM-free tea bag) tag. What Indi doesn’t know about tea, is probably very niche. With over 4 decades in the tea business, managing plantations […]
Last December one of our longest-standing customers (and friends) asked T H E questions, being… how much are things going up and when? I wrote a piece about holding onto prices for as long as we could and there will be a £5 bag for the foreseeable future at home. The longer I put this […]
Da da, da da, da da da da da dah🎵🎵🎵! Yes, I am brimming with positivity! With all of the world’s amazing technology, weather people (BBC= Meteorologists other channels= presenters, I am led to believe) still have to look out of the window and this is why the News is often a dull environment. When […]
Black coffee Black coffee got a bad name. When coffee is somewhere between, decent, lovely, and amazing, you just don’t need to add anything to it. Black coffee is not everyone’s go-to drink because they may have experienced darkly roasted, cheap commercial offerings that are widely available, and often underwhelming. Dark roasts are often a […]
I haven’t been quite as prolific at writing about coffee and what we do lately. I have been asking myself some big questions about where coffee is going, what I enjoy, and what other people enjoy too. Fear not the answer is not as simple as 42*. If only. Why do we roast the way […]
Hello Peru! Over the last few years, I have realised just how bad our relationship has been with Peruvian coffee. Doing something about it was no easy solution, as coffee sourcing can be as repetitive as a conveyer belt. That is to say, there is no guarantee that there will be a harvest to convey […]
