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Where are we ... and what have you done with NB?

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Where are we ... and what have you done with NB?

Fringe by the Sea is the best week of the year to be in North Berwick. Here's a wee insider's guide (totally my own opinion) of some really cool st...

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Life at Migoti Hill: Week 5

This week the coffee began to leave the washing station. A tremendous amount of hard labour was involved to lift 35,000kg parchment onto two massiv...

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Life at Migoti Hill: Week 4

This is the most exciting week of the year as it is the week that farmers get paid! We also check in on some experimental processing.

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Life at Migoti Hill: Week 3

Our roaster Ludwika is in Burundi, she will be spending six weeks there working at Migoti Hill. This week we visit a coffee farm, travel to a dry m...

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Ipyana (Tanzania) - recipe and background

Our new main espresso at Steampunk, Ipanya is also brilliant brewed by filter methods. Here is our recipe for Kalita wave and some more background ...

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Life at Migoti Hill: Week 2

This week we will look at natural vs washed processesing, visit a farmers market and learn more about Potato Taste Defect.

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Life at Migoti Hill: Week 1

Our roaster Ludwika is in Burundi where she will be spending six weeks working at Migoti Hill. This is the first of our weekly updates on what life...

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 ...