Adventures in coffee
Adventures in coffee is a new podcast that dives deep into your morning brew. Come and join us on this six episode series where Jools Walker aka LadyVelo and myself, ...
Get your Caffeine fizz
There’s definitely a lot more to brandy cocktails than Alexanders and zombies. In this delicious concoction, the fresh flavours of Mei Leaf’s Naked Spring green tea pair perfectly with the ...
Summer coffee milkshakes!
Kelis once claimed that “milkshake brings all the boys to the yard” and while we’re pretty sure she wasn’t talking about the popular beverage, she makes a good point. So ...
Iced coffee, 3 ways!
Iced coffee may not be a mind-blowing new discovery, but it's still a firm favourite to cool down on warm summer days. Now, there's nothing wrong with an iced americano ...
WTF is the Maillard Reaction?
Warning: we're about to get really coffee nerdy on you. When our ancestors discovered fire, and someone had the bright idea of throwing food on it, our expectations of aroma ...
A non-exhaustive list of Black-owned coffee businesses in the UK
Coffee is a multi-billion pound industry. According to the Allegra's World Coffee Portal, The coffee shop market in 2018 was worth £10.1 bn, up 7.9% on the previous year. That’s ...
The best homemade coffee ice cream you’ll ever eat!
The UK is heating up, and so what better way to cool off than eating copious amounts of ice cream? Trick question, there isn't. Our resident foodie Safia Shakarchi has ...
Will tiny coffee shops be the way forward?
In the age of social distancing, one of the biggest questions we're probably all asking is how coffee shops are going to adapt. While we definitely don't have all the ...
Level up your hummus game with espresso!
One of the best things to come out of lockdown is all the cooking and baking everyone is doing. We've been rummaging through all of our favourite recipes from our ...
WTF is Natural Processing?
All the types of coffee processing – such as washed, honey and natural – describe the way in which the fruit or ‘cherry’ surrounding the coffee bean is removed. The ...
Black Satin – The Caffeinated Tipple
How have you been getting on with this new way of life? Some are baking copious amounts of banana bread, some are exhausting their Netflix accounts. Some have worn the ...
Earth Day – How the Coffee Community is Making Positive Change
The global demand for coffee shows no signs of slowing, and experts believe it’s more likely to rise than fall in the coming years. At the same time, studies indicate ...