Brewing Tips These 2 coffees for us are like a throw back to when we originally fell in love with specialty coffee. They are both super clean and complex. So often coffees that we taste have their flavour so heavily driven by the process and often that can be overpowering with the delicate flavours taking a back seat. These 2 coffees being really clean for us means that all the flavours have so much space which makes brewing them super fun as it’s easy to taste and manipulate all the delicate complexity that coffees have. With our brewing tips we share our favourite recipe but appreciate ever ..read more

Brewing Tips These 2 coffees for us are like a throw back to when we originally fell in love with specialty coffee. They are both super clean and complex. So often coffees that we taste have their flavour so heavily driven by the process and often that can be overpowering with the delicate flavours taking a back seat. These 2 coffees being really clean for us means that all the flavours have so much space which makes brewing them super fun as it’s easy to taste and manipulate all the delicate complexity that coffees have. With our brewing tips we share our favourite recipe but appreciate ever ..read more

Brewing Tips Friedhats - Ethiopia, Negele Gorbitu First up for Februarys Sub we have a great Ethiopian that really impressed us and has been a great fun to brew up. Packed with funkiness, this is a well rounded versatile coffee that is definitely going to be well remembered. Our favourite brew for this coffee was with 15grams coffee to 250grams water. As previously stated, the is a really versatile coffee that was really enjoyable throughout. When we got our favourite brew, it came out at 4 minutes. When we brewed it at tis we found it had the sweetness that we was after. Furthermore, with the ..read more

Brewing Tips Friedhats - Ethiopia, Negele Gorbitu First up for Februarys Sub we have a great Ethiopian that really impressed us and has been a great fun to brew up. Packed with funkiness, this is a well rounded versatile coffee that is definitely going to be well remembered. Our favourite brew for this coffee was with 15grams coffee to 250grams water. As previously stated, the is a really versatile coffee that was really enjoyable throughout. When we got our favourite brew, it came out at 4 minutes. When we brewed it at tis we found it had the sweetness that we was after. Furthermore, with the ..read more

Brewing Tips This month we have 2 hugely different coffees to brew. The Sweet Valley is very easy to achieve a balance of flavours and it has lots of punchy in your face flavours so tastes really good at lots of different extraction levels. The Samuel Bermudez is packed full of complexity but is slightly more delicate and with this coffee it’s crucial to get the acidity shinning other wise it lacks the balance and can become more flat but when brewed well it is one of our favourite coffees for some time. See below some notes on brewing each coffee. Manhattan - Sweet Valley For this coffee we r ..read more

Brewing Tips Hundred House Coffee - Rafael Amaya First up for Decembers subscription is Rafael Amaya from Hundred House, this coffee was a fun one to brew up. We quickly realised that this was going to be a coffee that had bold bright flavours at various different extractions. So we were immediately excited at brewing this coffee up knowing it was going to be a crowd pleaser. Our best brew for this coffee was when we did 18 grams coffee to 300 grams of water with a bloom then 70g pulses. This brew lasted 4 minutes and 13 seconds.. With this recipe we got huge hits of pineapple with a great bal ..read more

Brewing Tips Mok - Alex Bermudez First up for our brewing guide is the the Alex Bermudez. We hope you like this coffee as it has become one of our favourite coffees this year. Packed with juicy notes of raspberry jam and and Black tea. This coffee seriously impressed. Our favourite brewing method for this coffee was 15 grams of coffee to 250 grams of water. We got roughy around the 3 minutes and 40 seconds time for the brew to finish. This recipe gave us the Tea like flavour which is was a delicate note to come through which just topped the brew off for us. Along with the tea notes it was acco ..read more

Brewing Tips Crankhouse - Shoondhisa First up for our brewing guide is the Crankhouse Shoondhisa from Ethiopia. At the cupping stage we picked this coffee for its delicate Orange peel notes which we wanted to bring out when brewing this up. Our favourite recipe for this was 18 grams of coffee to 290 grams of water with a total brew time of 3 minutes and 15 seconds. For us with this recipe the coffee had the orange peel flavour that we loved from the cupping and a great balance of sweetness and acidity. Once the coffee cooled down we found an amazing jasmine came through in flavour and aroma. W ..read more

Brewing Tips Prolog - Aquiares Red Honey This is an amazing coffee and was a real pleasure to get a recipe for. With great notes of grapefruit and red berries it had a really clean full mouth feel. The best recipe we got for this coffee was 17g coffee to 300ml water. As always we start with a bloom at the beginning. Then a pulse pour to 200ml and let it drain and finish to 300ml. The brew time finished at 3 minutes 30 seconds. This was our first time brewing this on V60 and turned out to be the best recipe we brewed up. It had a really great balance of acidity and mouthfeel. With taste notes b ..read more

Brewing Tips Prolog - Aquiares Red Honey This is an amazing coffee and was a real pleasure to get a recipe for. With great notes of grapefruit and red berries it had a really clean full mouth feel. The best recipe we got for this coffee was 17g coffee to 300ml water. As always we start with a bloom at the beginning. Then a pulse pour to 200ml and let it drain and finish to 300ml. The brew time finished at 3 minutes 30 seconds. This was our first time brewing this on V60 and turned out to be the best recipe we brewed up. It had a really great balance of acidity and mouthfeel. With taste notes b ..read more