Coffee Blog

Coffee hygiene

While coffee has many great qualities, one disadvantage it’s known for is staining. While it’s easy to see the effects of this if you spill your drink on a white tablecloth or shirt, the staining building up on your coffee equipment could be more subtle. Over time though, your equipment could become tainted with stale […]

A coffee treat for Pancake Day 2014

This year, Pancake Day is on March 4th 2014. We’ve put together the perfect recipe for coffee lovers with this rich chocolate and coffee sauce for your pancakes.       You’ll need: For the pancakes: 110g flour 2 freerange eggs 275ml milk 25g butter For the sauce: 340g granulated sugar 570ml water 2 good […]

What is coffee cupping?

“Coffee cupping” isn’t, as you may expect, the art of putting coffee in cups. It’s actually the art of tasting coffee, and experts train their palates in the same way as wine tasters to pick up nuances and overtones in the drink. Coffee buyers and blenders use cupping to evaluate different coffee beans, and to […]

Why buy coffee online?

These days, it’s possible to buy more or less anything online from jewellery to houses. When it comes to coffee, though, why should you buy online rather than from a local retailer? Often, as online retailers don’t have the same overheads, they’re able to offer better prices and higher grades of coffee than conventional wholesalers. […]

Flavoured coffee

Flavoured coffee beans are not perhaps as popular in the UK as they are in the US, but you can sometimes find them on the shelves of speciality shops or on cafe menus. The flavouring’s been added to the beans after roasting, and the more common variations beans include vanilla and spiced flavours. Pre-flavouring the […]

Top tips for coffee grinding

Here at the Wholesale Coffee Company, we have a great wholesale range of coffee bean blends to suit all palates and budgets. Our expertise and experience mean you can be confident of our coffee beans – but the next step on the journey to achieving the perfect brew is down to you. The variety of […]

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