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It’s a natural progression for a specialty coffee shop to move into roasting their own. It makes sense financially and from a quality control perspective: no matter how good your supplier might be, of course you think you can do better yourself. Furthermore, you always want to have more
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The braes ascend like lofty wa's, The foaming stream deep-roaring fa's, O'erhung wi' fragrant spreading shaws- The birks of Aberfeldy. Rabbie Burns - The Birks Of Aberfeldy There’s a lot to like about Aberfeldy. In 1787 our national poet, Rabbie Burns, was
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The sign that a country has truly embraced specialty coffee is when cafes, and especially roasters, start popping up in small towns and villages where before there might only have been, at best, a Starbucks. In the US, for example, you would be hard pressed to find even a zip
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Artisan Roast, it seems, is taking over. Not content with being Scotland’s first specialty coffee roaster (est. 2007), they’ve also opened a satellite in Glasgow as well as supplying coffee to countless cafes across the country. In fact, the very first review on this site all the way
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I first tried Williams & Johnson’s Burundi Mbirizi Lot #7 during research for my review of Foodstory in Aberdeen. Due to a malfunctioning grinder, it didn’t live up to the esteem in which the barista held it (see review), but he was so passionate about the coffee that
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There’s something reassuring about a coffee shop in a basement. It feels safe, withdrawn, away from the care and noise of the world. You descend a flight of stairs - watch your step - and enter a world apart. It’s a place to relax, to hunker down, to
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Brazil can be a somewhat maligned origin in the third wave coffee world. It’s unglamourous, for one thing, due mostly to its association with low grade, commodity coffee. And it’s also considered a bit, well, meh. Nondescript might be a better way of putting it - coffees from
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I have been looking forward to visiting Steampunk’s cafe, The Warehouse, for a long time. I first read about them a couple of years ago on the excellent Brian’s Coffee Spot blog, when I was planning a trip back to Scotland from Michigan and looking for coffee shops
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Balanced. Clean. Bright. Um… Tasty? Coffee is a subjective thing at the best of times, and attempting to explain to a circle of coffee experts what exactly you’re tasting can be a daunting experience. And once you’ve cycled through the standards - Full, Juicy, Mild, Complex etc -
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One of the most exciting aspects of living in the state of Michigan was the preponderance of third wave coffee in almost every town, no matter the size. Whether in Plymouth, Traverse City, Saugutuck or Kalamazoo, you could always reliably find a good cup of coffee. Scotland has been going
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This coffee was a surprise early Christmas gift from my sister and Danish brother-in-law, and seeing as it’s the holidays and I am, coincidentally, on holiday, I think it’s worth departing from my usual Scotland-centric approach and taking a closer look at this distinctive offering from the Coffee
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Living in Aberdeen, the most interaction I generally have with Dundee involves traversing the many roundabouts it takes to get around the city and on to Glasgow, Edinburgh and the South. I’d never really had a reason to stop and explore before, but Pacamara changed that. Tucked away in