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Ethiopian Bale Mountain Farm - one coffee, two processing methods

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Ethiopian Bale Mountain Farm - one coffee, two processing methods

We hope that offering this set of coffees showcasing the two processing methods from one farm will give coffee lovers the chance to see how big an ...

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Goodbye Mavis!

This is the origin story of Steampunk and it is also a story about an ending.

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Huskee - why our cups have changed

We passed another milestone today on the way back to normal. Like with everything else the new normal for us does not mean returning to how we once...

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Coffee Filtration: A Guide

An overview of paper, metal, and cloth filters for coffee and why you might want to use each of them. And how about about the option of using no fi...

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Decaf is not a dirty word

We love coffee for its flavour and the ritual of preparing it as well as for the boost we get from its caffeine! But decaffeinated coffee has alway...

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In praise of specialisation (or, why we don’t do sandwiches)

Kurt Cobain once famously said; “I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.” And that gets to the very root of one of my fav...

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Will this now be the winter of our discontent?

At the moment it feels like we only move a step forward to take several steps back. I wonder when we will look at the bigger picture and start maki...

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It is summer here but winter in Brazil

As recent climate change news has us all sitting up and listening (and hopefully acting), you might have also heard about the severe frost that hit...

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These are not the best of times...

We love the space when it is busy, when people are laughing with friends, when the coffee is flowing. We love the buzz, the vibe! This is why we do...

The Link between Coffee Quality and Price

By Rachel Beebe Regular Steampunk Coffee drinkers will know that we’ve been roasting coffee from our importer Falcon’s initiative in northern Peru ...

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Just taste it!

Taste is both a simple and a complex thing. It is something we do every day without thinking and yet, as with most things, as we learn more about t...

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The bean that isn’t a bean and why (single) origin matters

Single origin is a term we use often at Steampunk and we have had so many conversations over the years about it with people but we have not yet wri...

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Tasting pour-over coffee at different points of extraction

A fun exercise where you divide the coffee you are brewing into three glasses at certain parts of the brewing process so you capture the start, mid...