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Public cuppings and home barista classes
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...
Read more2022 wrap up
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...
Read moreColombian coffee I get.. arepas not so much
Last week I was in Colombia with a special group of coffee friends being hosted by Raw Material. We've been buying fr...
Read moreCaffe Culture 2022 debrief
Just over a week ago we took a stand at the 2 day industry event Caffe Culture held at the Business Design Centre in...
Read moreFermentation workshop and stories by the camp fire from Colombia
Last week I was in Colombia attending the first fermentation workshop run by Lucia Solis, a coffee processing consult...
Read moreAuf Wiedersehen PET
This week marked the end of 8 years of roasting on our Petroncini machine. A coffee roaster is just a tool but like ...
Read moreJack's first trip to origin - Colombia
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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