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Coffee tasting 101
Simple, short newspaper article on the fundamentals of coffee tasting that actually gets most of it right…
Mexican HG Chipas organic 'El Chorro'
My first Mexican coffee. I’d been putting off buying any Mexican, because I hadn’t heard much outstanding about them.
But this is a pleasant surprise, emerging as a coffee with distinct character – enough to hold up well on it’s own…
Iced Coffee season has arrived
The temperature hit the mid 30’s today – a tad early in the season – but it turned my mind to cooler coffee drinks.
In past years, I’ve tried a stack of ‘iced coffee’ drinks, but none have really stuck with me for one simple reason: they are too complicated. So read on for my most simple of iced coffee recipes…
Nestle, what are you thinking!?
The world of instant ‘coffee’ has reached a new low with a product just launched by Nestle on the unsuspecting Australian people…
The springtime snots
Spring has sprung
The grass has riz
I wonder where my hankie is?
Breakfast-Summer Espresso
People who know me will know I shun flavoured coffee. You know the stuff I mean: the ‘hazlenut’ or ‘vanilla’ flavoured muck Inglorious Geans and the like sell.
But this is different.
Ridgeback Estate Coffee
Challenging my disdain for Australian-grown coffee again, I have the chance to chance to roast up some promising beans from Ridgeback Estate in far north Queensland.
The description is promising and the sample roast looks good…
Nez du Cafe
Reading Michelle’s coffee blog the other day, she mentioned that her husband had given her a Nez du Cafe kit, and how this had helped develop her coffee cupping skills.
It reminded me of a couple of stimulating Saturday afternoons spent at Hazel’s cafe with a bunch other coffee geeks…
July 4th 2009
3:12 PM AEDST
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Ministry Grounds is a blog for reflecting on my experience of roasting and drinking speciality coffee.
There's also some basic information here for people looking to start their journey into fine coffee.
I also have a growing hobby business selling green and fresh roasted coffee - see the Ministry Grounds Store.
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