…unten findest Du den Beitrag auf Deutsch It just tastes wonderful – fruity, a balanced sweetness and a strong body. Just a dream of a coffee. Yes, the boys know how do roast. But there, in the end, there is something. Something that suddenly doesn’t fit at all. A taste somewhere between hay, cardboard and […]
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by Jessica Thomson, Barista @ coffee pirates This March I had the opportunity to see some coffee up close and personal during a bike tour in the Blue Mountain region while on vacation in Jamaica. Although the tour I was on was not specifically a coffee tour, we did have the opportunity to see some […]
Road To Seoul – World Aeropress Championships 2017 von Matthias Zechner Ein Päckchen Kaffee per Post. So beginnt die Vorbereitung für die Aeropress Weltmeisterschaft. Rund um die Welt bekommen alle Teilnehmenden 200g des selben Kaffees zur Vorbereitung. Direkt beim Bewerb erhält man nochmals Kaffee. Es gilt mit dem Kaffee zu experimentieren und passendes Rezept zu […]
Hey! It’s Jess and I am going to tell you a little bit about my experience entering and winning the Cup Taster’s competition last January at the Vienna Coffee Festival. Cup Taster’s Competition? There is such a thing? How does that work? How can you win a competition of tasting coffee? A Cup Taster’s Championship […]
Wow, what a topic! And, of course we can not support farms where children have to work! When we were visiting farms in Yirgacheffe, Ethiopias top coffee area, we saw many kids working on these farms. Mostly they separated defected beans and did some minor works at the washing stations. Why do the children not […]
Why should we select defects from green or roasted coffee beans? Good question! Yesterday I had a short visit from Thomas, a coffee farmer in Peru, (Tropical Mountains) at our roastery on Spitalgasse. He arrived in the moment that I was selecting defects from a batch of freshly roasted coffee beans. He looked surprised and […]
Haya dede (my country is beautiful) >> proud words of a coffee farmer we met in a wild coffee forest in Kaffa. CoffeePirates’ two weeks road trip through Ethiopia. 1st day – Addis Ababa to Yirga Alem We start leaving the crowded and noisy capital Addis Ababa as soon as we can by heading in […]