Author Archive

Crema and the laws of physics

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I am sure lots of us have noticed the way crema moves and settles as it pours, but something about it doesn’t make sense and this is just a short post with a video looking at how and why.

Steve Jobs hates me

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I do love my mac stuff, it makes me happy. Except my macbook. It clearly hates me. First the harddrive corrupts, I fix it then it dies a week later, and then last week my battery has gone mental and won’t discharge power. I feel it is mocking me. I [...]

It tastes like….. coffee

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Anette, Gwilym and I were having a chat in the roastery yesterday and the topic turned to expectations. Obviously as a start up you feel there is a certain level of expectation about the coffee we will produce, and whilst we certainly have very high expectations of our own, it is very good to [...]

Taste of Norway

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Quite looking forward to this.

Well I am going….

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

My interest in London’s coffee house history, combined with my inner geek means I am definitely going to this.

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