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Is it Organic?

Organic certification in specialty coffee is a complicated and nuanced topic, here we look a bit at some of the complexities behind the label.

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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...

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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...