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Kaf Coffee is extremely new. When I visited it had been open perhaps a week, tops. A sliver of a place with a bright white-painted storefront, it sits comfortably on Hyndland Street in Glasgow’s West End. However, it feels like it has been in business for years, the atmosphere
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One of the main reasons I started this blog (aside from it being a way to explore and promote the specialty coffee industry in Scotland), was in order to discover a broader range of coffee origins. My job as a roaster in the States, and the customer base of the
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It’s possible that, after six months living back in Scotland, I’m finally starting to miss the US. A case in point: during a recent visit to Glasgow, it felt to me a lot like a midwestern American city. Now, obviously Glasgow is a unique place: dynamic, edgy, and
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It’s a little strange that it’s taken me this long to get around to reviewing Artisan Roast’s coffee, seeing as how they are essentially the founders of specialty coffee in Scotland. I’ve visited their cafes numerous times, and reviewed their charming Stockbridge, Edinburgh, location on this
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Wellington Coffee is a hard place to track down. Both in a figurative sense, because it has minimal-to-zero internet presence, and also literally as its basement location means it is easy to walk by without seeing it. One of six Edinburgh cafes owned by barista champion Jon Sharp - sister
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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