Coffee Daily

The history of coffee is as rich as the revered brew itself. It reads like the intro to a global blockbuster, with an all-star cast and some of the most incredible backdrops in the world. Most people slurping the black gold have little idea of the ancient origins of one of the world’s most sought after crops. The history of coffee itself, is as stimulating as the drink.

Learning how to make the perfect coffee from a handful of small coffee beans is a tricky journey, one that’s fraught with bitter, and earthy and gritty taste sensations. If this is your first attempt to make coffee from bean to cup, while we’re confident you’ll get a palatable brew, we’d be equally as happy to have just taught you the basics of making coffee.

Once you’ve armed yourself with a bag of the finest coffee beans available, you’ll need to pick up some tools:

Navigating your way through the coffee section of your local shop can mean a lottery for your taste buds. Discovering how to buy the right coffee for you and your family is a constant challenge, and one that should be embraced not feared. Choosing the best coffee, is a fascinating journey: not least because we’re all so delightfully different.

The myriad coffee styles available today have had an almost comical effect on the local café menu. From long blacks to the short flats, we lose ourselves in the lingo of the bittersweet elixir. Coffee styles have developed in a multitude of ways, with “traditional coffee” meaning a hundred different things to a million different people. So perhaps the hardest question today is: How do you take yours?

How coffee is grown is no great mystery, although if you ask the general public you’ll find them stumped for a definitive answer. Should we really care how coffee is grown? The long answer is definitely, the short answer is yes. The reason being, coffee production undergoes many of the same quality checks as wine, and we all know how snobby we’re becoming about that.

I bet you didn't know that if you buy a coffee each working day from a Starbucks or Cafe Nero etc, you are probably dishing out at least £675 per year! Many people do know this, or at least know they spend a lot on coffee. These are the folks who are driving the increased sales in coffee makers these days. And the fastest growing type of coffee maker in terms of sales the pod coffee maker. But does the pod coffee maker really save a lot of money?