Archive for November, 2006

Coffee article in the Daily Mail

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Interesting to see the tabloids having a go at a coffee article. Name drops for the London School of Coffee, as well as Union Coffee though I must confess to being a little disappointed about how their comments on home coffee roasting were presented.
Hopefully clicking the thumbnail will take you to a nice full [...]

Signature drink time….

Monday, November 27th, 2006

With regionals only a couple of months away the great lumbering issue of a signature drink is sat squarely in view.
I have an idea and today am deep in development, and I plan to write it up as I go and then post it after competition.
Last year’s utterly ridiculous signature drink has set me a [...]

Thank you to CoffeeCrew

Friday, November 24th, 2006

For the very kind words - coffeecrew is a great website, and they have been going since 1994. If you haven’t had a little explore - wander over there now….

[tags]blogs, coffee, coffee blogs[/tags]

Belgian Barista Championship 2006

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Anette got back yesterday from judging - big congratulations to Peter on the win.

She has a load of pictures post on her Flickr.  Have a look…..
[tags]barista, barista competition, coffee, espresso[/tags]

Fazenda Camocim

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I briefly mentioned this farm in my coffeegeek article on crema, and recently recieved an e-mail from Henrique at the farm gently reminding me that the farm is not in South Minas (as muggins here wrote) but in Espirito Santo state.
At the bottom of his e-mail was a link to his website which I thought was [...]

James Hoffmann’s coffee blog. I was the World Barista Champion 2007, and am now focused on Square Mile Coffee Roasters based in London.