There are two things you’re guaranteed to see advertised on TV on Boxing Day: a furniture store sale and the latest celebrity fitness DVD. The later shows just how synonymous January has become to healthy living. After the overindulgence of Christmas and New Year, January might as well become know as Healthyanuary (or at least the first fortnight before everyone lapses and goes back to eating fry-up’s and takeaways). To help you on your road to good health you may want to consider drinking bad coffee.
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New Year’s Health Kick – Drink Bad Coffee?
January 16th, 2012Irish Coffee
December 31st, 2011Seeing as the festive season tends to be a boozy one, I thought it would be the perfect time to post a recipe for Irish Coffee.
Irish Coffee is said to have originated at Shannon International Airport. The story goes that when some American passengers disembarked from their plane on a miserable winter’s evening, sometime during the 1940s, the bartender, John Sheridan, added whiskey to their coffee to help warm them up. When asked whether the coffee was Brazilian, Sheridan replied “No its Irish Coffee”.
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Handpresso Customer Satisfaction Survey
December 14th, 2011I stumbled across the Handpresso ‘Customer Satisfaction Survey’ the other day and while it’s a bit old (it came out in August 2010) I think the information is still quite relevant. So I’ve made a little infographic of some of the results.
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Christmas Gift Ideas for Coffee Lovers
December 1st, 2011It’s that time of year again when many of us start tearing our hair out trying to think of gifts to give this Christmas. If only adults were like kids and still believed in Santa, they’d have eagerly made a list back in October of exactly what they want for Christmas. Unfortunately, they’re not and most of them are pretty clueless when it comes to thinking up things they’d like. So to help relieve some stress I’ve come up with a few gift ideas (in no particular order) for any coffee lovers in your life.
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Clever Coffee Dripper and Filtropa Filter Papers
November 24th, 2011Pour-over or filter coffee makers have never been that popular here in the UK, which is a real same as they make great coffee that tastes quite different to coffee brewed in a cafetiere (which is the coffee maker of choice in most households).
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World AeroPress Championship 2011
November 18th, 2011As promised earlier in the week, a quick catch up on the stuff I’ve missed while being: knee deep in code, colour charts, product photos (and goodness knows what else) whilst being surrounded by numerous empty coffee cups and pizza boxes; or in four words: building the new website.
The main event was the World Aeropress Championships, which was won by Jeff Verellen of Caffènation in Belgium.
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New Website
November 15th, 2011Many of you may have notice the severe lack of new content on this blog recently. This is because I have been busy putting the finishing touches to the new look Galla Coffee website.
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Coffee Biofuel
September 29th, 2011Another week, another interesting article: this time about converting coffee waste into biofuel. A treatment plant has been built in the Cauca Valley, Columbia, which plans to convert mucilage into bioethanol. The plant is currently in the testing phase but once fully operational it’s expected to produce 800-1000 litres of fuel per day. Not only will this aid coffee farmers as they’ll be paid for their waste (and I assume will have access to cheap biofuel) but also the environment, as now the waste has value, it will hopefully no longer be dumped in local rivers.
You can read more about this interesting project here.
Coffee Berry Borer and Climate Change
September 23rd, 2011I read an interesting report this week entitled: “Some Like it Hot: The Influence and Implication of Climate Change on Coffee Berry Borer (Hypothenemus hampei) and Coffee Production in East Africa”. Experts believe that rising temperatures will result in higher populations and spread of the coffee berry borer, which could have far reaching consequences for high quality Ethiopian and Kenyan coffees, some of my personal favourites.
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How Pressurised Filter Baskets Work
September 10th, 2011Pressurised filter baskets rather disappointingly appear to be taking over the espresso machine market. Gaggia now ship them as standard; Ascaso put them on their ‘Versatile’ machines; not to mention all the small domestic appliance manufacturers who dabble in a bit of everything, including espresso machines. The worse thing is that often these manufacturers ‘pretend’ that these filters are in someway better than the standard ones. The same standard filters which are used by professionals in every (well I hope every) coffee shop throughout this land.
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