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Old Brown Java - Challenging But Outstanding Espresso
November 01, 2018
We experimented with Old Brown Java and what a coffee it is; however the challenge is setting the grinder up correctly. If you're thinking of using this great coffee place, close attention to the speed at which the coffee is flowing through the ground coffee. The grinder settings are completely different to any other coffee I know.
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The Problem with Milk Auto-frothing Devices on Espresso Machines
October 31, 2018

I was copied in on a email today about a complaint made by a customer over the quality of a cappuccino that he had been served at a particular food-service outlet. His complaint was that the drink that he had requested had just a small covering of foamed milk, and was not thick and creamy as he had expected.
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Cappucciono at Home - The Key to Success!
October 29, 2018
Had a customer come into our store on Friday buying Coffee for a dinner party over the week-end. As the conversation developed it became apparent that despite having a fancy built in espresso machine in his kitchen he'd never really been that happy with quality of drink he was achieving - this had been going on for 2 years! I then proceeded to give him the following advice which hopefully will mean that his guests got something special (waiting on a report!)
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Colombia Coffee Safari January 2009
October 29, 2018
I have just returned from Colombia where I and a group of independent roasters visited a variety of coffee farms from independent farms to co-ops both Fair Trade and Rain Forest Alliance certified. What an amazing country in terms of variety of landscapes, the climate and of course the people.
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Frozen Coffee Beans
October 29, 2018

Drinking coffee from your freezer?

This one's a first for me and it's always interesting to hear what "real coffee drinkers" do with our coffee!
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H.R.H Princess Anne
October 29, 2018
Couldn't resist showing you this. H.R.H. Princess Anne is a regular visitor to the Island of Jersey.
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The Challenge of Grinding Espresso Coffee correctly
October 15, 2018
It's not until you handle espresso coffee on a daily basis that you appreciate how many reasons there are as to why it might not extract the flavour as well as you might expect. For the purposes of this blog I'm assuming water temperature, the pressure of the machine and the freshness of the coffee are all perfect (big assumptions I know!). Here I want to focus on the grind of the coffee.
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Bitter Taste of Over-extraction
October 15, 2018
Coffee culture like so many things is inate - somehow over the centuries a nation intuitively knows how best to capture the flavour of a particular product that they have consumed for generations.
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More & Better
October 15, 2018
This is a speech I gave prior to the showing of a film based on the activities of Wal Mart, entitled "Wal Mart, the high cost of low price". My thanks go to Bill McKibben, whose book "Deep economy" was its inspiration.
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