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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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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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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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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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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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The Last 10 Feet

Steampunk is about to open to customers again on 5th of April after being closed as a cafe for six months out of the last twelve. We’ve got a new b...

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How to Read a Coffee Label

Bags of speciality coffee and online descriptions of coffee can contain a lot of jargon. You may be looking at a coffee and wonder: what does all o...

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My Experience Cupping Coffee with Steampunk

Last year I attended a Steampunk 'Cup with Us' event, a virtual at home coffee tasting guided by a roaster from the Steampunk team. Since then, the...

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Fire Roasted Coffee

We recently collaborated with Alan and Abby Nash from the 'Get After It with Nashy' podcast to experiment with roasting coffee beans over an open f...

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Juanambú (Colombia)

This delicious coffee reminds us of warm apple crumbles, roasted plums and S'mores with its dark chocolate finish. It is the best possible coffee ...