Expert Reviews & Buying Guides for Coffee Enthusiasts
Let’s get one thing straight: the days of decaf being a punishment drink are well and truly over. That beige, slightly sorrowful cup you remember from the nineties — watery, flat, vaguely reminiscent of dishwater — bears absolutely no resemblance to what modern decaffeination technology produces. And yet, the stigma lingers. People still apologise when … Read more
There’s a quiet revolution happening on British doorsteps. Not the political kind — the caffeinated kind. The fortnightly coffee subscription has, quite brilliantly, solved one of the most mundane yet genuinely irritating problems in modern life: running out of good coffee on a grey Tuesday morning and being forced to rummage through the back of … Read more
There are roughly 95 million cups of coffee consumed in the UK every single day. Let that sink in. Ninety-five million. And yet, the vast majority of those cups are brewed from bags that have been sitting on a supermarket shelf for the better part of six months, slowly going the way of stale dreams … Read more
There’s something quietly brilliant about what’s happened to British coffee culture over the past decade. Walk down most high streets from Bristol to Edinburgh and you’ll find independent roasteries where the baristas talk about processing methods the way sommeliers discuss terroir. The jar of instant that used to live on every kitchen worktop? Increasingly confined … Read more