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Just taste it!

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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...

Coffee Ratio Calculator Tool

Here's a calculator that automates the mathematics behind coffee ratios. You no longer need to do much maths to figure out how much coffee or water...

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How Do I Start Brewing Coffee at Home?

Coffee can be intimidating, especially due to the vocabulary that is commonplace in the speciality coffee industry. I do not think coffee should se...

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How to Shake Up Your Aeropress Recipe

Back when I got my Aeropress, I spent a few days finding a recipe that I liked. I stuck with that recipe for weeks because it worked and I was glad...

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Brewing with the Aeropress in the Park

Some argue that coffee tastes next level when drunk outside - home brewer James Gallagher experiments.

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Coffee Packaging: it may be time for a radical rethink

I like to look at every problem as an opportunity. Our packaging is currently giving us the opportunity to think again about how we ensure that our...

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Make cold brew at home with NO fancy equipment

As the weather warms up, our thoughts are turning to cold coffee. Here, our guest blogger James shares some tips for Cold Brewing at home without h...

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Cold Coffees - Flash Brew vs Cold Brew

Iced lattes are great, but there’s a few reasons you should give other iced coffees a try. Here's a couple of other ways of making cold coffee dri...

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Straight outta lockdown

Long term Team Steamer Scotty shares some thoughts on his first week back behind the coffee machine.

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Complex vs Mellow: choose your coffee

Why do we use the words we do in specialty coffee? How do the words we use impact our experience of flavour? How useful are flavour descriptions to...

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Hot Cross Buns

It's Easter and I'm finally on the ball with doing a themed week! Just typical that it's the last recipe share but it's not so sad as it means we w...