Posted on 02 July 2009
Ok I’ve already posted a video today but found this by mistake and like Poul and what Transcend are doing and wanted to share it with you. I hope this continue. I foresee one day a joint Transcend / In my mug Heres hoping. transcend coffee video podcast episode 1-july 1-2009 from Poul Mark [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 June 2009
This man is the reason I got into coffee, and I love his videos so much. I make no apologies for my kiss assing re posting of his video, my coffee hero and he talks so much sense. I could listen to him talk coffee all day. Take a look at his blog Continue Reading
Posted on 16 June 2009
Regular readers will know my love for El Salvador knows no bounds. I love the coffee, I love the place and I love the people. Since being the lucky man who got his hands on the COE lot number 12 I’ve been emailing the farm owner Enrique. He has been so kind emailing photos of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 June 2009
We send a lot of things out every day with both royal mail and UPS. UPS we find 99.9% of the time all goes well. I guess much of this comes down to tracking and the extra cost this can incur. Royal mail again on the whole do a good job, but we do have [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 June 2009
On February 15 2008, there was a sad and terrible tragedy in Guatemala. Two farm workers from a cup of excellence award winning farm Finca Vista Hermosa were murdered returning to the farm with supplies and the payroll for the farm. Carlo’s, the manager of Finca Vista Hermosa, and his son Edwin, were going about there daily [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 June 2009
Sorry if this is a little heavy compared to the normal blog post I produce but I’ve been due one for a while. This is going to be a tough one to do, so please keep with me, please if I make a mistake this is out of my comfort zone of knowledge pull me up [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 June 2009
I know I get excited about new coffees way to much but this one is a little special. I’ve popped the write up below but I still don’t think it does it justice, one of the best finds so far this year (to arrive). A definite contender for an in my mug very soon. A [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 06 June 2009
I know I’ve talked about this here before but one more post on this months Tamper tantrum but I need a push. Like with in my mug tamper tantrum has got stuck at number two in the podcast charts. This is worked out by subscribers to the podcast and put you up the chart the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 June 2009
After an evening of playing with video I came up with this. A bit of fun but I hope you enjoy Water Never Tasted so Good from Stephen Leighton Continue Reading
Posted on 27 May 2009
A lot of the reason I’ve been not so active blogging (I know I’m in fits and spurts) is I’ve ben working on a new video project. Different from the In My Mug programs I’ve been doing this is a collaboration with the Irish Barista Champion 2009 and WBC finalist Colin Harmon. Once a month we [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 May 2009
OK, lots going on in the past week but been really busy with some staff sickness, and good time upon us. New beans added, Yemen is back as is the Colombian La Manuela lots more to come in the next few days too. One of the most exciting additions to the cart is the three [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 13 May 2009
Its another full week of new coffees, day three brings a here today gone tomorrow El Salvador. A treat that came to us vac packed from our importers, to help with the la fany that was running low, but I decided its so good, I’ll offer it too. To buy click here, to read more [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 May 2009
I’ve been sitting on this coffee for a little while as I didn’t feel it was ready and hadn’t reached its full potential. What do I mean by that? When coffee is first picked it a little green and closed. It takes a little time in the warehouse to calm down and be as good [...] Continue Reading