So no one told me !!
OK well some one did but only now, the Phil Ter video wasnt on the launch post so its here.
Phil Ter Video
"...............the Phil Ter video wasnt on the launch post so its here ............"
Welcome to Phil Ter the filter blend
"...........one of the first ideas was to revamp our filter blend offerings. Why ? well I think filter blends can be cool, and can be fun, but they get a bad rep. This scared me off........"
About 18 months ago I decided that I wanted to re-invent our blends. One of my first ideas was to revamp our filter blend offerings – but I didn’t go for it straight away.
Why? Well, I think filter blends can be cool, and they can be fun, but they get a bad rep. This scared me off, and did so until we were at the end of our new blends. Even since then it’s caused me some sleepless nights.
So why use a filter blend? The same can be asked of “why make an espresso blend?” We have espresso blends in order to add a more rounded / complex experience to the espresso, and some people will have you believe that you HAVE to blend for great espresso. This is something I have disagreed with for years; single estate espresso can be amazing, but I’ve always said that blends also have their place.
These same people who don’t like single origin espresso are the same people who will argue that filter needs to be single estate, and that filter blends have no place.
Well, everything in coffee has its place and this is our attempt to make an amazing blend that will be complex and challenging in a brewed coffee, but retain integrity in the cup. For me a great filter blend should be sweet, fruity, smooth, and balanced.
So we took some of our favourite filter treats and put them together in this challenging blend. I think it really works and I hope you do too.
50% Colombian Oporapa
30% El Salvador La Ilusion Bourbon
20% Brazil Sau Judas
Like all our blend names there’s a great personal link in here too, this time for me and my wife, and if you watch this week’s In My Mug I’ll be sure to tell you.
You can buy it here
Some rather cool wallpapers here
As always on these things now we have a great video to launch it, I hope you enjoy.
Top Ten Coffees of 2011
"..........its the video no one asked for and no one wanted. But you give me a few days off from work and stick me at home I will make something like this........"
So its the video no one asked for and no one wanted. But you give me a few days off from work and stick me at home I will make something like this.
Its my top ten coffees of 2011. There were some rules. I could only choose a country once, it wasn’t just on the taste but a collection of feelings, relationships and god dam amazing coffees.
I think I’ve changed it 5 or six times since recording, so nothing should be taken too seriously, but was fun to put together.
Enjoy.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
"...............Dont know if you have noticed, but its CHRISTMAS !!!!!............."
Dont know if you have noticed, but its CHRISTMAS !!!!!
We want to wish you all a very merry one in the only way Has Bean coffee knows (in a video)
This is last years card, with Roland in the Roland cart. But I am sure many of you may not have seen it, so its brand new, shiny new 
In My Mug Live pt 2
"..........It looks like this maybe a push to far, and the take up doesn't seem so amazing so I may be doing this on my own head, but we plough on. I hope you support it but I expect to fall flat on my face..........."
So this has been in the making for 149 episodes, it’s nice to commemorate a land mark with a special edition of In My Mug as something different.
It looks like this may be a push too far and the take up doesn’t seem so amazing, so I may be doing this on my own head, but we plough on. I hope you support it but I expect to fall flat on my face.
I expect this as the live audience thing has taken off as I thought it might. I only had a couple of people express interest; I guess seeing a warehouse in Stafford is not as exciting to others as it is to me, so maybe another time for that. We will not be having the “live audience”.
But the live-from-coffee-shops-around-the-world goes ahead on September 25th, as does the Google+ recording. Here’s the list of shops wanting to be involved, as it stands:
3fe, Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin, Ireland
6 / 8 Kafe, Temple Row, Birmingham
Colonna and Smalls, Princess Street, Bath
Harlequin / the Attic King Square, York
North Tea Power, Tib Street, Northern Quarter Manchester
Transcend Coffee, Edmonton, Canada
But you can also do this at home, and here is how to be involved.
Number One “Get a Google+ account”
If you do not have an account, email me I’ll send you an invite, although I’m fairly sure you can just get one now.
Take a look here for more info.
This will allow you to participate in the live tasting.
Number Two “Download voice and video chat”
This sounds difficult, but it’s easy and free. Just go here and install.
Number three “Friend me up baby!!!”
Google+ is a bit like facebook – you can see what people are talking about. I haven’t got into it 100% yet but I’m trying. Add me to your circles (don’t worry, it’s just for this. If you hate me afterwards just stop following – I won’t know and understand that I can get a bit boring!)
Number Four “Be ready on Sunday the 25th of September at 3pm”
I’ll be there from 2 pm in my little Google+ hangout, and I’ll post here on the blog and on facebook and on twitter and start making a noise. You come onto Google+ and join the hangout I will have created. You’ll get to talk to other people who are In My Mug subscribers, and we all get to hear from the coffee shops participating, and hopefully have some fun.
Number Five “ask for your coffee to be sent early”
I know most of your coffees arrive on the Saturday, which will arrive in time. But if you are not one of these lucky people email me with a request to send early and we will send on the Wednesday. We won’t send early unless you ask, but if this helps do take advantage.
I will be ready to answer any questions you may have about this on email, but also from around 1pm on the Sunday on the hangout, so feel free to dive in then.
Also try and make it to one of the coffee shops who are hosting for this. They have been kind enough to support “In My Mug live” and I’d love you to support them. They will be giving away coffee to try (as they didn’t know but were giving it to them as a freebie), so support them by buying something from them too !!!
In My Roastery Number 7
"..............In My Roastery Episode number 7 is here for your enjoyment / pain................"
So we move ever closer to this series of blog posts coming to an end and the new roastery project being complete.
In My Roastery Episode number 7 is here for your enjoyment / pain. Everything is coming together nicely looks like we will move in next week so maybe a number 8 before we do that.
Let me know your thoughts
