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COFFEE OF APRIL: BRAZIL MANTIQUEIRA SITIO MELADO
We’re showcasing coffee from Miguel Fonseca’s farm in Brazil this month. His 84+ crop is situated on the bonny slopes of the Mantiqueira Mountains. He’s spent years improving and rejuvenating his land, the soil, varietals planted, and practices and technologies used on the farm. And the quality has skyrocketed. Varietal & flavour notes This crop […]
COFFEE IN (SKATE) CULTURE
When I was nineteen I moved to Canberra for uni, and made the decision that I was going to be cool. I’d thought about being cool before this, but I was in high school, and it’s hard to change your identity to be cool when everyone already knows you aren’t. But as nobody knew me […]
Coffee of February: Bright Roast Ethiopia
Our farmer Tesfaye Bekele is so passionate about coffee farming that he has traveled extensively throughout Central and South America to visit coffee farms and learn about different cultivating and processing methods. This washed coffee is from Guji, where the most original Arabica varieties, known as Heirloom, grow. Under Heirloom you find wild varieties that elaborate […]
COFFEE AND CULTURE: LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
My mum recommended me this book, saying she thought it was the best one her bookclub read all year. She needed to insert that caveat as to not offend me and the book I gave her for her birthday. Which I notice is creeping ever down in her book pile, its ears’ mockingly un-dogged. Lessons […]
COFFEE OF JANUARY: TIMOR LESTE MOTA BANDEIRA
It is summer and a light and fruity coffee comes in handy. Our new coffee of the month comes from Timor Leste and surprises us with cupping notes of fresh summer fruits and biscuits – a picnic moment at it’s best! This juicy coffee is named after the famed Mota Bandeira Waterfall in the Ermera […]
A COFFEE CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
The best part of gift giving is the spreading of Christmas cheer. The worst part is Christmas shopping. It is a decidedly uncheerful time of carpark duels, frenetic bells jingling in carols like a ticking time bomb, and withstanding the arctic glower of the overworked shop assistant. Let us help you make this time less […]
COFFEE OF NOVEMBER – COLOMBIA FILTER ROAST
This epic Bright Roast coffee comes to us from Colombia Santuario Fatima Micro Mill. It is a natural process coffee that is super bright and juicy, with floral notes and a sweet choc finish. Santuario farm history began 22 years ago when Camilo Merizalde had the desire of creating a unique farm capable of producing […]
FIKA: PARTY TIME
A reliable source (a customer who’s friend read something on the internet) told me that La Nina is departing earlier than expected. Slinking away from the party like a trollied wedding guest who just embarrassed themselves on the dance floor. We look forward to seeing the back of you Ms Nina. In celebration of this […]
BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
It is one of life’s simple, great, God given pleasures to spend an hour or two with a good book and a good cup of coffee. And when I say good, it’s not because I’ve run out of adjectives (or adverbs? I never learnt this at school [sub parentheses – but I do run out […]
COFFEE OF OCTOBER : COLOMBIA : NATURAL : RUM AGED
By Ignacio Rodriguez La Palmera This experimental coffee by Finca La Palmera is really something special. First the coffee is exposed to dry Anaerobic fermentation for 24 hrs. The whole semi-dried cherries are then put into grain-pro bags for a further 50 hrs to continue to ferment. And for the finale the dried coffee […]
Coffee (art) History: Laurette’s Head With A Coffee Cup
I’ve been thinking about the influence of coffee in art history recently. Not just its obvious influence of powering many late night painting sessions, and that maybe some works of Jackson Pollock could be explained by one too many cups of coffee. But what about coffee as the subject? Have artists through the ages appreciated […]
FIKA: OKTOBER EDITION
Germans have a daily kaffee and kuchen tradition, and I don’t see why that can’t be reason enough to dedicate this whole post to German things. They clearly know things. Also it’s the month of Oktoberfest so I’ll include beer. However, on further research on the history of Oktoberfest, I found it had so little […]
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