Fundamentals

Our Fundamentals section provides you with additional content to help you get the most from your coffee. Brewing guides, coffee tips and ideas, wider coffee topics and more...

Brewing Guide: Pour Over (V60 / Drip) Coffee

...A pour over is a popular brewing method, and as the name suggests, is quite literally the process of pouring water over coffee. Brewing by percolation, a pour over coffee is generally very clean tasting. Here's our brew guide instructions in making your favourite V60 pour over (drip) coffee...

How To Taste Coffee

...In this article we want to start talking about the ever-controversial but crucial topic of tasting coffee. We say controversial because how industry professionals describe the taste of coffee can often alienate consumers...

Coffee Profiles By Continent

...We continue our exploration of coffees characteristics. This time we turn our attention to the different coffee producing continents. The way coffee is grown, where it is grown, and how it is harvested and processed differs from continent to continent...

Introduction To Coffee Varietals & Species

In its most simplest form, coffee is harvested from the Coffea shrub. This shrub produces the berries from which coffee is extracted. The two most commercial species are Arabica and Canephora, or more commonly known, Robusta.

How Does Water Affect Coffee?

...If you’re used to drinking instant coffee or tea, then you’re probably used to filling your kettle with water from your tap and you aren’t likely to give it a second thought. However, as you start to invest more time and money in better quality equipment and better quality coffee beans, don’t...

Methods To Grind Your Coffee At Home

...Following on from our insights into how to better store your coffee beans at home, here we’re going to focus here on grinding these beans, or rather, which type of coffee grinder to use...Rather than recommending the perfect grinder, we’re going to explain the variants...

How To Store Your Coffee Beans At Home

...Whilst the brewing method you choose to use or how you pour water onto your coffee are both important aspects to the end result, how you store your beans also has a big part to play in achieving that perfect cup...

Instant Coffee vs. Speciality Coffee

...whilst the cost is typically higher with speciality coffee, it is widely available and there are methods which are convenient. For example, when we're at home we tend to make either a French Press or V60. These, unlike espresso-based drinks, such as Flat White's, don't require a wide range of...