Coffeeland: A Short Summary and Review
Coffeeland is the story of El Salvador’s century-long development into a coffee plantation.
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Keiran Jones
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Coffee with Covid
I’ve recently suffered Covid-19 and it got me thinking about the sensory side of coffee, given the taste buds and olfactory system have...
Keiran Jones
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Process Knowledge and Brewing Coffee
It’s been argued that technology comes in three components; the ‘stuff’, the accompanying written information (Intellectual Property)
Keiran Jones
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
A Guide to How Coffee is Traded
Anyone who drinks coffee knows its price fluctuates over time. Investors and traders can profit from these movements...
Keiran Jones
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
A Whole New Water World - A Peak Water Review
Last edited 30 December 2020 I haven’t been this excited about a home brewing tool for a long, long time. The Peak Water jug has arrived...
Keiran Jones
- Jul 29, 2018
- 3 min
City Café Guide - Coffee in Bristol
Bristol Coffee Bristol, the tenth largest city in the UK, has a laid back attitude with a lively independent streak. There are plenty of...
Keiran Jones
- Jul 19, 2018
- 3 min
Instant Coffee Production – A Summary of BBC’s Inside the Factory
How do they make instant coffee? On the 17th of august the BBC show, Inside the Factory, gave us an insight into the manufacturing of...
Keiran Jones
- Jun 18, 2018
- 4 min
The Dry Process - An Introduction to Natural Coffees
Natural processed coffees (also called dry) are capable of beautiful tropical fruit, dried fruit and rum cocktail like flavours. They are...
Keiran Jones
- Jun 7, 2018
- 5 min
City Café Guide - Coffee in London
London Coffee Last edited 30 December 2020 London is an incredibly varied city for coffee. There are countless high street commercial...
Keiran Jones
- May 30, 2018
- 5 min
Making Espresso – The Basics of Good Espresso
The Basics of Making Good Espresso Making espresso is a craft. We may have visited shops where we prefer a particular barista to another...
Keiran Jones
- May 17, 2018
- 4 min
The Journey of Coffee – From Seed to Cup
Taking the journey of coffee for granted is understandable. We pay to receive a latte at the local shop or just add water to granules at...
Keiran Jones
- May 4, 2018
- 2 min
Yerba Mate – Recipe for a summer refresher
Yerba Mate Not quite coffee, not quite tea, Yerba Mate is a caffeinated drink of its own. Mostly enjoyed in South America and Lebanon...
Keiran Jones
- Apr 25, 2018
- 3 min
Coffee Grind Size Wheel - Introduction to grind sizes
Grind Size Wheel The Coffee Rambler grind size wheel was designed to make it easier to learn about grind sizes. It aims to reduce the...
Keiran Jones
- Apr 16, 2018
- 4 min
Coffee Pests, (not-so) Fungi and Diseases
By Fairtrade’s reckoning, 125 million people depend on coffee for their livelihoods. 41% of Ethiopia’s exports are in coffee, with...
Keiran Jones
- Apr 5, 2018
- 4 min
Coffee and Strength – What is a Strong Coffee?
"I like a really Strong Coffee!" I hear this sentence and the misuse of the word strong rather frequently. Whereas some people might...
Keiran Jones
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
Acrylamide – Beware the Californian coffee cancer
In California, a judge has deemed it necessary for coffee to come with a cancer warning Shock horror! Cancer has found another way to get...
Keiran Jones
- Mar 23, 2018
- 2 min
Making Arabic Coffee – An exciting change to your coffee through adding cardamom
Sometimes a change in our daily coffee is appreciated. Although single origins can be varied and very delicious, craving for a different...
Keiran Jones
- Mar 12, 2018
- 4 min
Coffee and Consciousness – How coffee can aid our general awareness and personal development
Coffee and Consciousness - Becoming more aware Through learning more about coffee we can come to learn more about ourselves. My...
Keiran Jones
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
Milky Coffee at Home – Understanding Milk and Doing it Right
Most of the time I drink my coffee black. However, there are times I want a dark roasted coffee with milk to accompany a sickly sweet...
Keiran Jones
- Feb 23, 2018
- 4 min
Snobbery in Specialty Coffee
Coffee Snob There is a perceived snobbery in Specialty Coffee. Many of us have entered a coffee shop and felt either a little out of our...