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You will have noticed that we have updated a number of our prices 1. Olympia machines: since we started selling Olympia machines in 2008 we have consistently sold them at around cost price in order to establish a name for…

… wonderful brown sugar notes are developing in this coffee. we think we’ve nailed it & hope to realise this coffee for sale on monday, 13 december. mellow and pleasant, even first thing in the morning. a desirable tanginess in…

Top rated coffee beans: what are they? Traditionally there were a relatively small number of coffees that were considered to be top rated coffee beans, with people generally offering up Jamaican Blue Mountain, Hawaiian Kona, or some other prestigious coffee.…

We’ve umm’d and ahh’d for a couple of days over this 6th test roast. In the end we think it is too tangy so we ran a 7th test roast tonight & found ourselves in need of some inner warmth…

that’s it, this roast estbs the baseline, with its tangy notes. this is more objectionable first thing in the morning than in the evening, so we will run a 6th test roast at 1F higher, and we will have a…

…its good, but we’ve not reached rock bottom & there’s a sniff of soot lurking in the background, so in the name of science & the pursuit of excellence we’ve roasted a 5th test roast (1 Dec), another 5F lower…

We tried our third test roast of this coffee today with an end point -5 degrees F on the first roast (the second test was roasted at the same time as the first roast, being +2F than the first and…

If you have not familiar with the term, ‘peaberry’ simply refers to a single seed pod mutation of the standard two half seed pod that you are familiar with. Or so I thought. This peabury is very dense, the only…

Its finally here, the Jamaican peabury. Man in Australia hounding us all this time for it; you know who you are! This year has been a very poor season for Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee so we’ll have to see if…