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Public cuppings and home barista classes

21.03.23

Public Cuppings We hold monthly public cuppings in our dedicated training and education space. This is an informal tasting session with open discussions encouraged and the coffees on the table could be our latest coffees along with some coffees from other roasters, perhaps a couple of different roast profiles of the same coffee. We might throw in a little bit of sensory work as well using the La Nez Du Cafe aromas or some basic taste tests ie. sweet, salt, sour, bitter and umami.  We annou...

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2022 wrap up

21.12.22

In this last post of 2022 we thought we'd give a little review of our year in and out of coffee: our favourite momen...

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Colombian coffee I get.. arepas not so much

06.12.22

Last week I was in Colombia with a special group of coffee friends being hosted by Raw Material. We've been buying fr...

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Caffe Culture 2022 debrief

14.09.22

Just over a week ago we took a stand at the 2 day industry event Caffe Culture held at the Business Design Centre in...

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Fermentation workshop and stories by the camp fire from Colombia

28.07.22

Last week I was in Colombia attending the first fermentation workshop run by Lucia Solis, a coffee processing consult...

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7 days

12.06.22

Last Friday (Platinum Jubilee weekend) the new owners of our faithful Petroncini arrived and together we dismantled i...

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Auf Wiedersehen PET

02.06.22

This week marked the end of 8 years of roasting on our Petroncini machine. A coffee roaster is just a tool but like ...

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Jack's first trip to origin - Colombia

25.05.22

Colombia is a country that, for me, produces some of the world’s best coffee. It grows a wide range of varieties in v...

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Giving 1%

02.02.22

Remember when you were told that you had to give 100% commitment to be the best you could possibly be ? It applies to...

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