Coffee Posts

CaféDirect Cauca Valley

Continuing our exploration of CaféDirect's revamped range, and we head a little south, onto the South American continent itself. We've encountered Colombian coffee from CaféDirect before, but I suspect there has been a little reformulation to go with the rebranding - the strength rating has been nudged down from a 4 to a 3, and ...

Taylors Rare Blossom Ethiopia

Taylors have re-vamped their Origins range, or perhaps simply replaced it with a very similar 'Single Origin' one. Although none of the old origins that I can recall remain, the coffees are all from a single country - in contrast to their core range which are blended from beans across multiple countries and ...

Hackney Coffee Kingsland

The Hackney Coffee Company has only been in business for a couple of years, housed in a family-owned premises that has over the years seen service as a garage, depot and even brewery before entering the world of coffee. Their coffee blends are all named for local landmarks or history, which certainly helps root them ...

CaféDirect Tarrazu Reserve

CaféDirect have had a bit of a rebrand recently; the packaging certainly looks crisper and more modern, and they've dropped the rather curious "made the small way" slogan that bemused me so much when I reviewed their Colombia coffee a few years ago. Then again, they've replaced it with "Ridiculously Good Coffee" which is, ...

Bridgehead Bytown Boom

One of the great pleasures of travelling is exploring local food and drink; for obvious reasons my focus tends to be more on the drink than the food! Local beer is always top on my list, but often there will be local wines, spirits and - increasingly - coffee to be explored too. ...

Redber Old Brown Java Dark Roasted Coffee

Redber is a coffee roastery based in Guildford, although for those of us not in the area they are widely available online - either through their own website or (as in this case) via Amazon. Their range is fairly extensive and reasonably priced, and after stumbling across this one in the Amazon coffee aisle ...

Taylors Rwanda

It's been a while since I reviewed a coffee from Taylors, not least because I've tried so much of their range over the years. After starting my exploration of their (then) new Origins range with their Indonesia coffee, today it's the turn of Rwanda - an East African country in the same prime coffee-growing ...

Ginevra Miscela Selezionata

After a long winter of whisky, it's definitely time to get back to the caffeinated side of the fence, with a return to our exploration of Ginevra's range. So far I've been impressed by these Italian coffees, so let's see if they continue to please in 2017. Miscela Selezionata is translated as a "selected ...

Ginevra Espresso Bar

Another coffee from Italian roaster Ginevra this week, and definitely a more Italian style one. On a side note; to expose the depths of my lingual ignorance, I nearly thought this coffee was called 'Macinato'. It was only thanks to the power of Google Translate that I realised at the last moment that this ...

Reads Coffee Kenya Thiriku AB

We're back to Dorset-based coffee roasters Reads Coffee today, this time from their 'Origins' range - although at the time of writing, this particular coffee has been replaced with one from another area of Kenya. Kenya Thiriku AB comes from the central region of Kenya; Thiriku is a co-operative based just outside the town of ...