I was at Tea Smith yesterday and I was very much enjoying the tea I was drinking, and the owner remarked that they were his favourite cups to drink from. “The lip” he said, “disappears!”
Category Archives: Coffee
Pressurised Cold Brewing
I read quite a lot of blogs. Actually that is probably a half truth. I subscribe to a huge number of blogs and often skip through postings that don’t immediately grab me. This one I read, and it lead me to this post. I’m sure it is no leap to see where I am going …
My current iced coffee method
A few people were asking on twitter about my iced coffee method (technique seems a little too much promise for something so simple). I’m still trying to work out cold brewing (i.e. brewing using cold water), and since I read Peter Giuliano talking about the Japanese iced coffee method that has been a method of …
Things I don’t understand #3214
I am not particularly ashamed of the phrase “I don’t know” but there comes a point in the day when you’ve said it five or six times and you feel you really ought to do something about it. The cause of my embarrassed ignorance: the change in flavour when coffee cools.
WBC London Coffee Map
Just a very quick post to let you know that if you are coming to London for the WBC and want suggestions of somewhere to go then I’d recommend checking out the WBC/Coffee Kids London Coffee Map. Not only will you get delicious coffee, but the participating shops are also raising money for Coffee Kids, …
Return of the Uber
For a while all has been quiet on the Uber front. We shuffled some stuff around at the roastery, and as part of it we chose not to cut the old Uber into the new worktops as we planned to upgrade – the new Uber having a different (smaller) cutout. The new Uber arrived today …
Thresholds of deliciousness
I’ve been thinking more and more about the tiers of tastiness when it comes to not only coffee, but any food or drink. I think this was probably triggered by the whole aerating thing. Having tasted coffee that had been aerated, as well as coffee brewed with aerated water, against a standard brew there had …