Steampunk Coffee Blog

Developing a pour over recipe for Basecamp Coffee

Developing a pour over recipe for Basecamp Coffee

It can take a bit of trial and error to develop a great pour over recipe. Here is our recipe for Basecamp and an insight into how our roaster Rache...

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Kalita recipes for our current coffees

This is how we brewed up our fantastic range of coffees at Glasgow Coffee Festival.

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The Third Space: will WFH steal cafes from communities?

Despite coming out of lockdown determined to cherish in person connection, are we in danger of destroying our last few spaces that facilitate it?

New Packaging: are we there yet?

We are beyond exited to be launching our new packaging for coffee this week! Our new bags are 100% plastic free and certified home compostable. Her...

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Feeling in-between-y?

2021 has felt like a waiting game, what are we looking forward to at Steampunk for 2022?

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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...