It’s that time of the week where you look at your schedule and have a potential meltdown…and pick up the week’s first cup of coffee and drink it like you mean business. Because you do – it’s Monday morning and you have a mountain of work, making your schedule look more like Mount Everest than […]
If you’re importing or re-selling your own coffee beans, there are lots of factors to think about. Sourcing, storage, transport, flavour, quality control and cost are all vital considerations, but one aspect you may have overlooked is packaging. Whether you’re packaging for trade or consumer use, key factors are brand consistency, efficiency, cost and practicality. […]
Fresh roasted coffee beans, maybe even some green coffee beans to roast yourself, great espresso and coffee machines, secret coffee ingredients…these are things that can make some people swoon and if this is you, it’s probably time to pack your bags and head to a barista school if you haven’t already. After all, if you […]
If you’d walked into a coffee bar in the 1950s, what could you expect? Well, coffee bars as we know them today only started in 1952, when an Italian named Pino Riservato, who owned the British concession for the then brand-new Gaggia espresso machine, opened a bar called The Moka in Soho. The Moka was only […]
If you love speciality coffees such as mocha and cappuccino, you might have considered making your own chocolate syrup to keep handy for adding to drinks. Chocolate syrup is a really useful addition to the kitchen – not only is it great for adding punch to coffee, you can also use it for making a […]
Are you one of the millions who absolutely love coffee? Do you wake up for the sake of smelling the smell of fresh roasted coffee beans? Do you order your own green coffee beans so you can toast them to perfection? Do you experiment to make different patterns with the foam of the coffee, or […]