Coffee Challenge

Drinking coffee? That’s far too easy…. How about we eat some? While coming through university (and yes, that was a few years ago) my favourite snack was chocolate covered coffee […]

All the challenges up until now have been quite easy. Other than cafes that don’t sell single origin coffees, you could pretty much do any of the challenges in any […]

It is becoming quite a frequent occurrence to spot a cold drip at your local cafe. It’s almost like they are the barber’s pole to cafes serving “specialty coffee”, which […]

If you’ve tried the “Add a drop” challenge, then the idea of ordering two espressos to compare an contrast should be something familiar. Here we go again, except this time […]

One of the easiest way to expand your coffee experience is to venture outside the bounds of your comfortable usual cafes, and to visit somewhere new. As such, this challenge […]

When trying to expand on the experience you can get from your coffee, whether brewing it or simply consuming it, much comes down to managing variables and then adjusting only […]

Back when I started working in a cafe (this was a while ago), when someone mentioned a regional coffee, there were generally a set of fixed characteristics that went along […]

Thought it might be an interesting experiment to get feedback on how the coffee challenges are going so far. Personally the “no sugar“, “no milk“, “barista’s choice” and “filter coffee” […]

So you’ve tried the no sugar, the no milk, and then the barista’s choice. Now it is time to take the time to enjoy a filter coffee. To prepare for […]

In baristas we trust. If you think about it, these guys and girls hang around coffee all day long, specifically there own coffee. So who better to recommend the best […]