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Having tried the patience of many of our customers for longer than we had any right to, we have finally upgraded our checkout such that it is more intuitive for those who do not wish to pay by Paypal. We…

for me the answer is a resounding yes. you will often hear it said that coffee needs 48hrs or thereabouts to de-gas and this is true enough. but with the experience we have built up since 2004 when we started…

I have been weighing up in my mind for ages whether or not to make this post as lever machines tend to divide the coffee community like a scythe. It is not a sly attempt to talk you into the…

What do we mean? Well the primary attraction to coffee for me is it is one of the last non-homogenous products in our daily lives It is a truly natural product and as a result it delivers a vast palette…

We have decided to republish this article directly from the FT in full, as it says the same as what we have been saying ad nauseum. That is to say, Starbucks is not about espresso. We have placed the key…

we’ve said it before, we’ll say it again, most cafes buy the least expensive coffee they can find, and anything from italy must be good right, because everyone knows the best coffee comes from italy, right? er, no, not necessarily…

Yes, another decaf coffee Why? because a customer demanded a decaf, but it HAD to be organic & fairtrade All we could find right at the moment that fitted the criteria was this or a single origin Sumatran We decided…

and we will answer it here for you.

Despite the dire predictions of the newspapers, it isn’t all doom and gloom out there. I’m not a pushy marketing man with an axe to grind, I’m not about to tell you that houses are gaining value and the world…

Cooking food at high temperatures, for example grilling or barbecuing meats, can lead to the formation of minute quantities of many potent carcinogens that are comparable to those found in cigarette smoke (i.e., benzopyrene). Charring of food resembles coking and…