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
I get many e-mails every day. By far the most frequent question is “how should I store my coffee?”
So in a way only Has Bean can, we made a video staring me (Stephen Leighton) and him (Dale Haris).
I have to say Dale was completely bullied into making this, much against his better judgement, and I apologise to him and his family for the disgrace I have brought upon them.
Enjoy
So don your tuxedo, borrow the diamonds, and frock up for the first ever Has Bean Coffee Oscar awards.
Voted by you the public, here are the categories:
Best In My Mug
Best “the other category”
Best Brew Guide
Best Wholesale Video
Best In My Mug category: strongly contested, with In My Mug now in its 175th guise, so more to choose from and more bloopers to endear to the heart. But the runaway winner with over 44% of the vote – it’s episode 167, filmed on Finca Alaska in El Salvador.
http://www.inmymug.com/?p=677
Best “the other category”: videos that don’t fit into any other category; the one offs, the fun videos. The uncontested outright winner with a whopping 69% of the votes is the roastery tour!!!
http://www.hasblog.co.uk/the-roastery-tour-video
Best Wholesale Video: this was conclusive again. The three other contenders all had the same numbers of votes in, but with 51% of the vote the award goes to Fairer Than That. A shock result for me, but a very happy one.
http://fairerthanthat.com/
Best Brew Guide: some tough competition here, with the Chemex and the cupping guides both doing well. But again, the result’s clear and decisive, and with 52% of the votes it’s the first guide we did: the Aeropress video.
http://www.hasblog.co.uk/a-brewing-guide-episode-1-aeropress
So there we have it – the Has Bean Oscars.
I get asked the question a lot of the time what is washed coffee.
The problem is its as broad as it is wide as a term, and means many things to many people. But with our incredibly talented techie people we have put together a basic washed coffee guide.
Now for those in the know, yes there are many variations, and yes it changes from country to country, but this is an introduction into the whole process
I’m very very happy with it. I hope you enjoy
So its oscars night, and today we have the Has Bean coffee Oscars night. Awards given for the amazingness of Has Bean Videos
There is a serious side to this, its good to get feedback on what you like and what from our videos, but also a bit of fun too
So the categories are
Best Blend Ad
Best In My Mug
Best Wholesale Video
Best Brew Guide
There is a vote button at the bottom so please leave your mark. Results will be next week (the 5th of March 2012)
Best Blend Ad
Jailbreak
Kicker
Jabberwocky
Blake
Breakfast Bomb
Philter
Best in my mug
So I chose 4 of my favourite in my mugs for you to choose from
In My Mug Episode 167
In My mug Episode 161
In My mug episode 150
In My mug episode 142
In My Mug Episode 119
Best Wholesale video
What we do
how we do
the result
Fairer than that
Best Brew Guide
Aeropress
Cascara
chemex
cupping guide
eva solo
french press
Others
Christmas Card
In My roastery Number 1
the Road to Yirgacheffe
Roastery Tour
Wholesale Outtakes
Lots of people ask us how were settling into the new roastery, and they would like to know more about where we roast and the people here.
The ideal would be to show people around (and in the spring / summer we will have an open day) but its impractical, its a working environment, food prep area and not somewhere you can have people walking through.
So my love of video, has lead me to this, our new video The Has Bean Coffee Roastery Tour. This will give you an insight to the team, where we work and what we do. Also that we have some fun while we do it too.
We also bought a fancy domainname roasterytour.com
So I keep throwing this term around direct trade, and not really quantifying what it means to us.
In fact as an industry we say this term a lot, when it means many different things to many different people. So as an initiative for this year we will be making it a little clearer, with a video and at the end of the year compiling a report with the prices of these coffees we call “Direct Trade” (a stollen idea from the wonderful people at Counter Culture in the USA). It wont be comprehensive as in every coffee we stock (last year this ran into hundreds) but where we are able to we will give as much information as we can.
All the bags under this banner will have a little sticker on like below
To launch this we have released a video explaining the whole process and a website, www.fairerthanthat.com and we will continue to develop the idea over the year. If you have any thoughts about the kind of thing you would like to see in this type of report then let us know.
Hello, my name is Stephen Leighton and I am the owner of Has Bean Coffee. My hobbies are coffee, coffee, coffee and occasionally Sunderland football club.
I'm happily married to Sarah and we have a son, who both help in the world called Has Bean Coffee
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