I had a brief moment to dig into a couple of books and was pleased to come across the following passage in Coffee: Recent Developments that was very kindly sent to me by Jim Schulman.
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 [...]
Posted in Opinion | Also tagged brewing, Coffee, consumer, cupping, drinks, Espresso, promises, roaster, trust, varietal, wine |
As hectic as everything is here, it hasn’t stopped by brain going off on one during spare moments (a couple of hours commuting is plenty of time to think about stuff.)
So here are a few of the things I have been thinking:
Tasting every roast of every component is slowly but surely breaking my head and [...]
I confess I knew more about Counter Culture’s coffee than I did about the company itself. I was excited to visit their roastery and also we were honoured to stay in the House of Chang.
I also confess that the change in the clocks caught me off guard and it took me a little while [...]
I am not going to write up the visit to Probat too much – Klaus has already done a great job at the Coffee Collective Blog.
However I think the photoset from the Probat Museum will be of interest to quite a lot of people. I’ve tried to add a little info to the pictures [...]
I haven’t managed to get around to sorting through the photos I took whilst there with Klaus, Casper and Anette. It was one of the WBC prizes – a trip to Probat to learn more about roasting.
I will post more once I’ve sorted the photos – the museum alone is worth the trip to [...]
Posted in Featured, Roasting | Also tagged Coffee, probat, wbc |
Well, I confess I have been very quiet of late. It is a mixture of traveling a lot, taking a lot of pictures, having no laptop (until the Macbook I acquired today – I do love a weak dollar!) and generally being a bit of a burnt out mess. Thankfully I have been [...]
Kind of a quick roundup post really (I struggled to think of a title!)
Whilst wandering in London the other day it crossed my mind that I had never been to St. Michael’s Alley where London had its first coffee house. In fact it is likely that it was England’s as well as Oxford’s claim [...]
Last year the UK won the European Team Challenge over in Dublin and here is a little video promo of the event:
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Had a weird one today – a bag of coffee roasted in Spain that at first glance looked a very odd mixture of roasts:
It wasn’t until I broke one of the shiny ones open that I worked out what was going on. Inside the dark, sticky beans the colour wasn’t nearly as dark and in [...]
