I’ll field this.
I like grinding and have a cheapo pour over machine.
It’s probably a gateway to a proper €500 quid machine.
I started on the nespresso machine too.
I know nothing about coffee but I like the process and my current favourite is Blue Butterly.
I still use my nespresso machine for espressos.
Everyone and their mothers appear to be opening up pop up coffee vans at the moment. I know 3 fellas who have since Christmas.
They’re a gift
The Micks just love to be mugged off fo meet their friends for a walk and a coffee.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/coffee/id73330895?i=1000459393051
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and social impact of coffee. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before reaching Western Europe where, in the 17th century, coffee houses were becoming established. There, caffeinated customers stayed awake for longer and were more animated, and this helped to spread ideas and influence culture. Coffee became a colonial product, grown by slaves or indentured labour, with coffea robusta replacing arabica where disease had struck, and was traded extensively by the Dutch and French empires; by the 19th century, Brazil had developed into a major coffee producer, meeting demand in the USA that had grown on the waggon trails.
Is that old? I’m sure I listened to it, or something similar a few years back.
Pre Covid.
December 2019.
I think I read an article about coffee houses in Dublin in the 18th c. also … There was a thriving coffee house culture throughout 1700s
Loving my Aeropress since I got it in Dec. I’ve been ordering coffee from Cloudpicker - any other recommendations for online coffee retailers?
This outfit in Germany. Avoid any hipster new arrivals talking about pomegranates and almonds. Upper lands coffee company are spot on, as are s.d. bells
Cloud picker is good,
If you want to order from Ireland I’d also recommend Badger and Dodo, Old Barracks (maybe the best but pricy), Calendar (Barna),
I’m living African coffees at the moment, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania.
Are you using the Aeropress upside down? Inverted as they call it, much better
I got Bean from Dingle as a Christmas gift and it was very good. I’ve seen bags of it in the window of that new cafe on Catherine St.
I need to head into the city later so I might pick up a bag of B&D Ethiopia from Habit. I must get a grinder as the 1kg whole bean bags seem way better value than the ground 250g ones.
Anyone that hasn’t been drinking their coffee from these by now is a mug.
Éanna is doing some job 
I can see those cups making an appearance on the celebrity spotting thread later in the year.
I’m a fan of here
They’re unreal. Screw on top is a game changer.
They’ve a serious set up there on Catherine Street, Fika is the name.
Three choices of coffee at a time, it’s Bean in Dingle, West Cork Coffee and one other that i can’t remember off hand, real coffee nerds behind the counter, all available for sale in bags as well.
Habit is good but you should head into fika for a change
Ethiopian coffee or nothing.