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How to Shake Up Your Aeropress Recipe

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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...

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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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Five Ways to Make Coffee at Home

Different brewing methods produce a different taste in the final cup and learning a new method of brewing coffee can be a lot of fun, there's somet...

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Beginner's Intro to Grinding Coffee

Grinding coffee yourself offers two main advantages: added freshness (and thus better flavour), and the ability to mess around with grind settings....

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Vegan Benny with smoky bacon tofu, hollandaise and wilted greens

Here's a beautiful brunch recipe which is vegan and gluten free but can be adapted for any diet. Swap in muffins, toast, bacon, grilled halloumi, m...