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 A Basic Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture
What is biodynamic agriculture? Bio dynamic is oldest of the organic farming methods, and was introduced by Rudolf Steiner an Austrian philosopher who in the late 19th early 20th century. How is biodynamic agriculture different from organic? Biodynamic farming share many of its principles and ...
- Mini Review of Black Gold
This article is a mini review of the film 'Black Gold', and a discussion of my thoughts and feelings provoked both by seeing the movie, and my recent attendance at a question and answer with one of the producers of the film and some local "relevant people". I've been lucky enough to see this fi ...
- Fair Trade for who? A counter view to the Fair Trade Debate
This article discusses and investigates what fair trade is, what I don’t like about it and the alternatives that exist. Has Bean made a bold statement in 2002, to no longer stock any Fairtrade products. This hurt us financially and meant that some of our customers went elsewhere. I make no ...
- Has Bean: How it all began pt 1 of 4
I have always enjoyed coffee, and always been a little weird with it too. Not in a bad way, more in terms of quality and choice. I remember asking, as a seven or eight year old, for a filter machine for Christmas, and drinking filter coffee when no one else in the house did. I recall enquiring ...
- Has Bean: How it all began pt 2 of 4
It was 1999 and the internet was still fairly much in its infancy, especially where commerce was concerned. After some investigation, I found a great roaster based in the UK, and made the decision to buy roasted coffee from him to resell three days a week on a market stall in Stafford. Both Sar ...
- Has Bean: How it all began pt 3 of 4
While we had the coffee shop, I used to travel 120 miles to pick up the coffee beans from our roaster friend. It was not necessary, but I did it because I loved the roastery so much. The roasting process was what really intrigued me about coffee. I also liked that there were no customers direc ...
- Has Bean: How it all began pt 4 of 4
By October we had decided that the coffee shop was going and we needed some premises to replace the garage in which to roast. We found a small industrial unit, which was only 750sq ft but perfect for us. It had an office, and a great space for the roasters. Preparatory work was once again needed ...
- Coffee Arrival Times
What I plan to do within this article is to let people know APPROXIMATE arrival times of crops over the year. Of course there are many variables and some countries have two harvest per year. But this information I hope will be useful to act as a guide. Country Arrival Times Bolivia February to M ...
- Coffee Cupping: A Basic Introduction
This article is meant to be used as a basic introduction. There are no right or wrong ways of cupping, but this should help for the novice who wishes to enjoy the delights of origin coffee. The aim is to introduce you to what cupping is, why we cup, how we cup and some of the more commonly us ...
- Death of The Blend
The big question on my mind at the moment is: are we witnessing the death of the espresso blend? As the specialty coffee industry gets better and better at spotting interesting and complex single origin coffees from individual estates and presenting them to the espresso community, I am wonderin ...
- Description of the CO2, Natural Liquid Carbon Dioxide Coffee Decaffeination Process
One of the vital elements and most important compounds of our natural environment is carbon dioxide. It is in the air we breathe, it is the gas that makes mineral water effervescent and, by assimilation, enables plants to grow. It is also a highly selective solvent for caffeine. Based on this ph ...
- Espresso Blending Techniques
First published on www.toomuchcoffee.com reproduced with full permission Why just espresso blending? Why not talk about blending in general? Blending for the press pot or filter machine doesn’t need to be as precise. For one it’s a far weaker part of the cup compared to espresso an ...
- Field trip report from the Colombian First Harvest Cup of Excellence 2006
Top competition, I was worried about there being enough distinction between the cups, in order to appreciate the nuances of each individual bean. Colombia is renowned for good consistent coffee, but not a wealth of variety. Over the first few days we kicked out over half the coffees for various ...
- How to Brew Coffee – Has Bean’s 10 Commandments
The aim of this short article is to get you to think about the basic principles of brewing coffee. Over the next few months this series will grow to cover particular brewing methods, but there are some common principles which we will discuss here. 1. Thou shalt know your machine. Whether itR ...
- How to use a cafetiere (french press)
This sounds like a very strange thing to discuss surely french press is one of the easiest methods to brew? But sometimes things can be missed, and here I plan to go through, step by step, the best way of brewing this method of coffee. Get french press right and it can be one of the most rewar ...
- Roast Descriptions and the Beginner Home Roaster
Roast Descriptions and the Beginner Home Roaster This is a guide to understanding the roasting advice given with Has Bean’s cupping reviews. There are a lot of descriptions in the coffee world, most of them directed at the US market. I personally feel that they are often confusing and comp ...
- Selecting Speciality coffee
Speciality coffees differ from one another for a variety of reasons, including the way in which they are grown, the area where they are grown, the altitude, the soil, even the way in which the farmer cares for his crop, for example whether the are organically grown etc. Like fine wines, speciali ...
- Stephen Leighton on Speciality Coffee
Coffee: All Ground Up! Steve Leighton on Specialty Coffee Steve Leighton and his wife Sarah Leighton are proprietors of a successful internet-based coffee roasting and home-roasting products business Has Bean based in the UK. They started the business to fill the gap that existed in the special ...
- The History of coffee
Where it Began It is thought that coffee cultivation may have started as early as A.D. 575, but one of the earliest written mentions of coffee was around the 10th Century by an Arabian physician called Rhazes. The coffea Arabica tree (the plant specialty coffee is mostly linked with) can be foun ...
- Whirley Pop Home Roasting
Stove Top Roasting is a very hands on technique dating back to the origins of Coffee Usage. It provides you with an interactive, hands on experience where you really get a feel for the beans character and the entire process of a roast. There are numerous methods used for Stove Top Roasting rang ...
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