I have been thinking about this topic for a while, but a post over on Jamie Goode’s blog has inspired me to write a little something.
I get fairly numerous emails from a variety companies asking me to post about their products. I generally ignore these emails. More recently some have come with financial incentives – [...]
I am aware there is some potential for me seeming like an arrogant so and so in this post, but it really is just about having a bit of a discussion.
It is no surprise that I am a big fan of barista competitions, but having recently gone through the UK judges workshop there are a [...]
Last week I had the opportunity to pop over to Vienna for 24 hours. It was the Allegra European Coffee Symposium, and I got to dress up in black tie and go to the Hofburg Imperial Palace for the awards dinner the night before. I even got an award1 which was amazing and I am [...]
And now you do too.
However, it is probably a bit of a rant.
There was much discussion on Twitter the other day (I know, that sentence still seems awkward and embarrassing to me too) about naturally processed coffees. The discussion had started about how everyone seemed to be ignoring washed coffees from Yirgacheffe, having become distracted [...]
Probably recorded too late at night to make much sense. Perhaps me just worrying too much about us worrying too much about how things look instead of how things taste and the relationship between the two.
Today’s rant – it isn’t really a rant – is about cups.
I’d love to know which are your favourites for drinking from (rather than collectable favourites) and why.
I should make clear now, because I don’t think I do in the video, that I am not saying one opinion is better (or more correct) than the other. I just wanted to talk about the divide in ideas out there when it comes to brewing espresso – I am not trying to upset [...]
I feel it is about time I broached this subject. With an eye to the last posts, as well as to the response to my Chemex videocast, I feel the need to make something very clear.
The internet is full of information, though it is also full of keyboard heroes, and has something of an issue [...]
This morning I spoke to a journalist on the phone who is writing about coffee in London, as well as the antipodean influence on our coffee scene.
One of the questions he asked was about the influence of Italian populations on coffee cultures. In Australia a good chunk of credit for the early rise of coffee [...]
Stumptown are the source of one of my most troubling coffee experiences, one that still haunts and nags at me today.
No one in the coffee industry really likes decaf. We excuse its taste, we get annoyed at how fast it stales, we treat it as a second rate coffee experience. I was in that camp [...]
