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If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know we recently covered two of the four equally important variables that separate a great cup of coffee from your average brew. We focused solely on the beans – both the beans themselves and the way they are roasted. We learnt that the type of bean – Arabica or Robusta – greatly influences the…

Coffee is complicated. Finding it isn’t, making it isn’t (provided you have the right office coffee machine), and certainly drinking it isn’t, but a simple cup of coffee is a chemistry lesson unto itself. You may be familiar with some of the chemicals found in coffee, such as cafestol and kahweol. They’re special oils known as diterpenes and according to…

Whether you are a large office of hundreds or a small team of twenty, 7 grams coffee will take care of all your caffeine needs at the workplace. Research has shown that employees spend a large percentage of the year outside the office in pursuit of their daily coffee supply. Our coffee machine services are designed to ensure that employees…

Myths About Coffee Storage There are some people who keep red wine in the fridge…there are other people, the more obsessive types, that will search for every possible piece of information on how to store wine properly before attempting to.. We like the obsessive types because we know how important coffee storage is. So what do you do with the…

Here is a carefully compiled list of coffee-related reads. As you make your way through the titles you will soon learn that coffee is much more than a drink… Coffee Latte Art Book by Daniel Benmayor For all those people who’ve been wondering how to paint a leaf on their latte froth…this book will show you how in colour. Coffee:…

What distinguishes a good espresso from a bad expresso? Is it just me or does it really annoy you when you hear people asking for an ‘expresso’? ‘I’ll have one expresso and one latte’, they say with as much ease and confidence as Kath and Kim. The word is espresso! Translated literally it means ‘on the spur of the moment’.…

The history of coffee is the stuff of legends. One coffee history legend tells of an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi, who dwelled in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. One day Kaldi innocently found his goats dancing around a dark green leafed shrub with bright red cherries. Kaldi soon realized that his goats had been intoxicated by the bright…