Tag Archives: roaster

London Coffee Jobs website

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 1, 2009

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 [...]

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Morning coffee

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 18, 2009

I have a confession to make:  I used to, in a very snobbish way, hate the idea of a coffee being an “after dinner coffee” or a “morning cup”.  I thought it was one of those really stupid ways of selling coffee – like how supermarkets use the word “strength” to communicate how dark a [...]

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Thoughts on the last Esmeralda auction

By James Hoffmann | Published: May 24, 2008

According to the owner of the stoneworks auction website, I was one of up to 3000 users watching or participating in the latest auction. It went on for 9 hours and you had to feel very, very sorry for the Japanese who would have started bidding at 10pm and finished around 7am. (though [...]

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Getting my hands dirty

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 12, 2008

Things have been a bit quiet on this here blog. A few reasons for that really… Most of my time is spent in a space that doesn’t have a phone line yet and it has been lots of very long days. I am pretty tired. However, I am also pretty happy.
In other [...]

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2007 – A review of the year

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 26, 2007

A look back over the last 12 months, and all things coffee that have happened within them (both to me and others). World Championships, origin trips and other competitions as well as other coffee-centric highpoints of the year 2007.

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A few things from the library

By James Hoffmann | Published: March 30, 2007

I was looking through some of my books and I found a few images I really like so I thought I’d upload them. There aren’t many but I thought I might do this every few weeks when I stumble across something I think is noteworthy.
I’ll also try and take down more details about the [...]

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