Specialty Coffee
5 REASONS YOU SHOULD WORK IN A CAFE WHEN YOU’RE 15-20
If you’re between 15 – 20, you’re always learning something, and there’s one thing I’d like you to learn from this article, this is it: There are two kinds of […]
SUPERSONIC COFFEE PROCESS
I don’t think the Supersonic coffee process could be more aptly named if you tried. Supersonic literally means greater than the speed of sound sure, and speaking literally this coffee […]
Moccamaster Coffee Brewer: How To And Why To.
I love the Moccamaster so much. Made by the company Technivorm – whose name is derived from the Dutch words for ‘form’ and ‘function’, and made in the late 1960’s […]
NICARAGUA AND VOLCANO SUBCULTURE
When you’re deep in whatever subculture you’re deep in, like specialty coffee for you and I, you tend to see the world through that lens. So when I was chatting […]
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE IN COFFEE FARMING
I watched that gut health doco on Netflix a few weeks ago. I loved it. Particularly the stop motion felt intestines and bacteria and other gut related things. And I […]
How to (really, should you) reheat coffee?
I’ve gotten into an afternoon habit of late, of making a really big pot of spiced tea, or maybe it’s a tisane as there’s no actual tea in it, just […]
The Sri Lankan Phoenix: Coffee’s Rise From The Ashes
We’ve come to the second instalment of the Sri Lankan coffee saga, and if this isn’t a story fit for the big screen, it’ll at least make an interesting National […]
SRI LANKAN COFFEE: THE GLORY YEARS
I don’t think of coffee straight away, or at all when I think of Sri Lanka. I think of tea, of rolling green plantations, of elephants and peacocks, tuk tuks, […]
SUPERNATURAL COFFEE
The definitions of ‘super’, according to the definitive source of definitions Wordhippo.com, can be defined as: Super (ˈsü-pər ) Adjective 1. Of excellent quality, superfine. 2. Better than average, better […]
GIVE THIS A CRACK WITH YOUR NEXT LONG BLACK
It felt controversial at the time, actually it feels controversial now, but a little whiles ago I wrote an article busting the myth that crema is the sign of a […]
HUILA OR WON’T YA?
Of course you huil. Huila is delicious. It’s very likely you’ll have sipped many a cup from this luscious region before, delighting in its rich, brown sugary sweetness and stone […]
A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOURBON
When a description of the widely produced coffee varietal Bourbon begins with “It’s a tall variety characterized by relatively low production, susceptibility to the major diseases (of leaf rust, berry […]