So I have found I can drive and boo
A revelation or recipe for a crash? Either way booed today about the ukbc and the post is here
Need to know how to brew the aeropress? Well this might not help but it will show you how I do it wrong.
So a big reason for wanting to make this trip was to go picking pulping of my own coffee. I've never been able to say I have picked the coffee I roast as pickings have been on farms that we have been unable to buy everything from.
I think that the roast style has nothing to do with the brew method of the coffee, nor do I believe that you should roast coffee differently for those different styles.
Pre ground coffee, a compromise too far, or a way of bringing in the masses?
Here I explore and share some of my favourtie people I follow on the phenomenon known as twitter
I take an in-depth look into all the elements that go into making espresso blends
A few weeks ago I was on Wine Library TV, drinking and talking wine with Gary Vaynerchuk
I went down to see Willie Harcourt-Cooze and see how he roasts his cocoa and we drank some coffee

So I have found I can drive and boo
A revelation or recipe for a crash? Either way booed today about the ukbc and the post is here
Call to all Irish friends. Colin Harmon (of tamper tantrum fame, apparently he did OK in some coffee making competition too), is having his official opening of Third Floor Espresso on the 24th of January 2010. I’m going to be there also, and will be filming an In My Mug, drinking coffee and chatting. We want as many people as possible to come down so please do. Look forwards to meeting some of you.Kicks off Lunch time I think and we will be there until mid afternoon at the very least. Conact the normal channels if you need any further information
The address is

So I decided I would add the the final installment of the Brazil Diary. I have run it past some friends who said I should.
The reason I was thinking not to add this video is, I did get a little reminiscent and all bleary eyed. But that’s the kind of guy I am so who cares.
Final Diary Post from Stephen Leighton
I hope you enjoy it and its not too much of a smush-a-thon. Nearly done with the brazil trip now (I promise) I have a few more photos to share from two farms and that’s it all cleared up for now. I do have some clips I hope to do something with in the future, but you must be fed up with me going on about this trip. But it was amazing and one of the highlights of this year for sure.

I know this has been rolled out slowly, but a load of posts about Brazil would have meant some of these wonderful photos might not have got seen
Brazil Cachoeria is a very special farm to me, and still the moment I really felt I understood what real quality coffee could be came the first time I cupped this coffee. It was the moment that it became clear and I understood what it was about, the farms, people as well as in the cup.
Regular readers will know how much I love this coffee, and I was meant to visit three times before I got there with disaters happening meaning I was not able to .
I ended up getting a little bit mushy about it all, and I have a video I may or may not put up to finish the video diary’s from Brazil.But its not me at my best I may not
It was every thing I hoped it would be, the farm is amazing, almost to amazing. I said to Stephen Hurst who was with me it was like Disney land, everything perfect, like really perfect manicured almost. To see the whole set take a look here.
I’ll sleep on the video and make up my mind in the morning but please look at the photos I think they are amazing

Something I wanted to do while I was away was to make a silly little video.
Its 40 seconds of self indulgence for me, while I was on Fazenda Cachoeria, but I hope you wont mind.
My Silly Video from Stephen Leighton
Silly ? Yes, bit of fun? Yes, to be taken seriously? no
Part two of the Brazil Video Diary I did on the recent trip.
Brazil Diary Episode 2 from Stephen Leighton
I apologise for getting a little emotional and all misty eyed on these, you wait until part three when I’m proper waffling and all emotional. Hope you enjoy