Coffee Posts

Puro Organic

Coffee might not be your first choice in the height of summer, but I've always been a firm believer that a hot drink can be just as good as a cold one on a hot day. Then again, I also think it's perfect for a cold day, so it may be that I ...

Steam Powered Coffee

One of the cool things about coffee is that there are so many devices that you can use to make it. Being a true gadget fan, I've tried a number of them over the years. On a fundamental level, there are two ways of brewing coffee. The first is simply soaking the grounds in ...

Puro Fuerte

As well as being Fairtrade, the Puro range is also shade grown – the bushes are grown under the shade of native trees, which is good news for biodiversity and sustainable production. Here we have Fuerte, another blend of Arabica and Robusta beans – this time a 50/50 mix, with the Arabica coming from ...

Puro Noble

Puro is a coffee brand owned by Belgian company Miko, set up in 2005 to focus on ethically and environmentally responsible coffee. Not only are all their products Fairtrade (why isn't all premium coffee?) but they also work with the excellent World Land Trust, donating two per cent of money generated from sales – and ...

Bewley's Araku India

A return to Bewley's this week – the Irish tea and coffee importers whose Panama we've featured before. Although based in Ireland, the coffee is fairly widely available in the UK as well. This is the Araku India coffee, grown in the Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh. Unlike some of their range, it's nice ...

Aromo Bounce

Aromo Coffee (now rebranded as Pure Gusto) are a company that primarily focus on producing coffee in 'pods' for those fancy coffee machines. There seems to be quite a range of different shaped pods for various machines, and by the looks of it they have the whole range covered. I'll be honest – I ...

Bettys Peruvian Pangoa

Bettys are perhaps better known for their Tea Rooms, and for the fact that they own Taylors of Harrogate. However, they have a separate online presence and even have their own range of coffees, and they were kind enough to send a sample my way. This is their Peruvian Pangoa, a medium-dark roasted coffee ...

Cherizena Jumbo Maragogype

Maragogype is another name for the Elephant coffee bean that has caused me such troubling mental imagery before. It's a South American coffee, in this case coming from the Chiapas region of Mexico. This is Cherizena's Jumbo Maragogype, although I'm not sure they're any more Jumbo than a standard elephant coffee bean. The grounds have a wonderfully ...

Bewley's Panama

Bewley's are an Irish company who have been operating for four generations. They started out importing tea, but soon added coffee to their repertoire. Bord Bia have been kind enough to send Pete Drinks some of their range to sample. This is Panama, a strength 4 coffee grown on the slopes of the Baru ...

Espresso Martinis at The Forge & Foundry

I'm not normally a huge fan of cocktails; I'd rather have a simple beer or wine than some of the more 'imaginative' drinks that some bars come up with (beer cocktails, particularly, bemuse me beyond belief). However, when the folks at The Forge & Foundry down in Camden invited Pete Drinks to visit they ...