October 2014

Challenge - Drop of cold drip

It is becoming quite a frequent occurrence to spot a cold drip at your local cafe. It’s almost like they are the barber’s pole to cafes serving “specialty coffee”, which […]

Challenge - It's mac time

If you’ve tried the “Add a drop” challenge, then the idea of ordering two espressos to compare an contrast should be something familiar. Here we go again, except this time […]

Using balance as a theme for today’s #coffeeporn I’ve taken 3 examples of how balance can be used to make a great looking coffee. The first pic shows how symmetry […]

Challenge - Add a drop

When trying to expand on the experience you can get from your coffee, whether brewing it or simply consuming it, much comes down to managing variables and then adjusting only […]

Sitting in a cafe yesterday I was having a great conversation about coffee (as I seem to do quite often) with the owner of the cafe, and in an offhand […]

Challenge - Ethiopian Coffee

Back when I started working in a cafe (this was a while ago), when someone mentioned a regional coffee, there were generally a set of fixed characteristics that went along […]