It’s early morning. You’ve stumbled out of bed and made your way to the coffee machine to switch it on. It makes a noise, grumbles, and starts heating up. You do too, but you make more of a groan than a grumble. And what also starts to heat up is the anticipation of having your daily morning coffee. Your morning juice, your liquid gold. It’s what gets you going and kicks you into action. There’s always a build-up of anticipation and hope around the morning coffee. Hope that today the coffee will taste as good as it did yesterday! Even just close to how yesterday tasted would be a win… Please ..read more

Why do we have a coffee recipe? The simple answer is consistency. And for the Home Barista, this is one of the most frustrating challenges we hear. “My coffee tasted amazing yesterday. Today, I did exactly the same process, but it’s nowhere near what it tasted like yesterday. Why?!” When we’re working with people in their homes to help them brew better coffee, our first questions to them are – Did you weigh your coffee dose? Are you timing your extractions? What yield are you aiming for? Most often these questions are answered with a puzzled expression and even more questions by the Home Bar ..read more

  As soon as the word history is mentioned there’s always a number of opinions, conflicting stories and hearsay thrown around disputing what supposedly happened, when it and how it happened, and to whom it happened – and the history of coffee is no different.    If you were to ask the average person on the street who discovered coffee you’d probably hear Italy answered a lot. Which makes sense as Italians have been synonymous with coffee for a long time. Definitely so in our lifetime.  But that answer would actually be incorrect. Ital ..read more

Coffee for me is my morning anchor. Without it, I’m lost. I’ll find myself being swept away into the demands of the day without the aid of a life vest. All hell can break loose in the morning or during the day but with my anchor behind me, my morning cup of joe, the caffeine running through my veins, I can tackle whatever is thrown my way. And what it is that I love about my coffee ritual is that it’s 15 minutes of the day that’s purely for me. I love the process of making my pourover, Aeropress or espresso-based drink each and every morning. It’s me in my ..read more

It seems like every second person is a barista these days! Okay, maybe every third.. So, what is it that’s going to make you stand out from the rest of the crowd? It can no longer be a sweet styled moustache, a sleave of tattoo’s or a Steve Zissou beanie – these fads might have once given you a lot of street cred but you’ve now got to give more.  What stands out for Mr Barista in a great barista is their ability to apply what we call the I %er’s to their coffee making. Doing this will take your average barista and make them into a more rounded barista, and also a more round ..read more