Pour-over coffee is a great way to enjoy coffee, and if done properly, it can bring out the flavours of a coffee nearly as well as cupping the coffee traditionally, so it’s about time I put together a bit of a how-to. I don’t do a lot of these, as more often than not, I [...]
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Following an informal cupping at work today. I have added my tasting notes for the wonderful Ethiopian Harar from Hasbean coffee. You can read these notes at Ethiopian Harar or get the rss feed at Cupping notes feed
[quick update: added Hi-Def audio version of the podcast, linked below]
In this episode of Common Grind: Tales from the Drip Tray, the UK’s premiere coffee podcast. I go over to Hasbean Roastery in Stafford to cup Steve Leighton’s first bio-dynamic coffee, the Indian Balmadi Natural, plus the El Salvador La Illusion, the No. 1 Cup [...]
Well on Saturday after a fantastic offer from Steve Leighton over at Hasbean Coffee Roastery in Stafford. I headed over for a private cupping with the legend himself (I can imagine him blushing already). The main focus of the visit was to cup Steve’s brand new Indian Balmadi Natural process coffee.
Well following some great news from Steve Leighton at Hasbean Roastery in Stafford. I wanted to write up a post on Biodynamic agriculture. Biodynamic agriculture, in a nut shell, is the act of the farming the land in a way that prevents soil damage, and in fact, unlike organic farming, is actually beneficially to the [...]
Quick post before I hit the sack after a long evening doing search engine optimization. And just wanted to quickly bring you guys attention to something. For the last few years, we’ve had our coffee roasted by Hasbean. A great roastery in Stafford. This is run by a guy called Steve Leighton. A lot of [...]
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