Today I created a simple website with a simple goal:
Connect quality focused cafes/coffee roasters/coffee suppliers with potential staff.
I get a lot of emails, and meet a lot of people looking for barista jobs in London, and I know shops are always looking but I forget to keep track of exactly who. The idea of the [...]
Posted in Announcement | Also tagged jobs, london, roaster |
This is something of a summary of the short talk I gave at the Allegra Strategies UK Coffee Leader Summit a week or so ago. Please also bear in mind that this talk was directed at the UK market specifically so won’t necessarily hold true for other national coffee cultures.
For me this talk was a [...]
Posted in Opinion | Also tagged article, brewing, Coffee, consumer, drinks, economy, Espresso, history, innovation, italy, london, marketing, pricing, quality, tradition, trust |
Not too long ago I posted on Home Barista about trying to find a good way to measure the density of coffee beans. 1
As always the paricipants there were way smarter than me and offered several interesting options. I dropped into the thread that this was part of my idea of a grand unified theory [...]
Posted in Coffee, Espresso, Food Chemistry, Green Coffee, Opinion, Roasting | Also tagged blending, brewing, Coffee, cupping, drinks, Espresso, experiments |
When we started Square Mile our goals were fairly traditional for a startup roastery. After the last Nordic Barista Cup that changed. We had the chance to hang out with (the now newlywed) Chris and M’lissa Owens. As anyone who has met them can attest – they are astoundingly wonderful people.
We had a new goal [...]
Forgive the ugliness of the title, but I think talking about SO (Single Origin) espresso does a great disservice1 to what people are beginning to achieve and push for. I am aware that in a way every lot of coffee is a blend on some level but that isn’t what I want to talk about.
Nick [...]
Last year I wrote a post with 6 tips for barista competition. This year, with the rule changes and all, I wanted to write another little post (though still give the first a quick re-read…).
I really want to encourage people to enter, it isn’t as difficult or scary as it seems. Everyone who competes, as [...]
I’ve written a lot recently with an industry readership in mind. This post I write with the consumer firmly in mind. This isn’t about exonerating lazy cafe owners and baristas, or excusing the chains or making allowances for restaurant coffee. Anyone who loves or even likes coffee will often complain about how bad a lot [...]
My review of my time at the SCAA and USBC in Minneapolis. I was there as an SCAA blogger, but didn’t see too much of the show floor and ended up being around the competition more. Warning – it is a long post with a fair few big photos.
Posted in Barista Competition, Opinion | Also tagged Barista Competition, Coffee, compak, Espresso, intelligentsia, kyle glanville, la marzocco, Latte Art, ritual, usbc |
It only just dawned on me that this next post would be a milestone post (thank you wordpress dashboard) so I thought I should post in an opinionated way about coffee as a couple of things have been eating away at my brain. It has been a real pleasure writing this blog over the [...]
Ashville seems to be something of an odd place considering its location. I wasn’t aware of its reputation as being one of the more relaxed, liberal (though I hate the word) cities in the South, but when you get there it does have a very different feel. I also appreciated the rocking chairs [...]
