About PMCA

Pat McArdle is Dreambeans Coffee's Chief Bottle Washer and he looks after all elements of this website. He is obsessed with coffee and has been working with Greenbean Coffee for more than 25 years. He contributes all the blog posts on this site. Pat and his wife Caoimhe are responsible keeping all our our customers happy and correctly caffeinated, and for making sure that everyone is satisfied in their dealings with us. Pat McArdle and Pat Grant are responsible for tasting and blending all of the coffee on this site. Pat Grant is the true expert here, Pat McArdle is a useful second opinion and occasionally contributes a useful idea or suggestion.

Limited roasting during summer holidays

By |2020-10-28T11:52:30+00:00July 3rd, 2019|

Coffee Roasters' Summer Holidays July 2019 As the summer holidays have arrived, we will be operating on a limited roasting schedule for the two weeks between Monday 8 July 2019 and Friday 19 July 2019. This means that we won't be able to roast any of our Specials during this period. A skeleton staff will be in the roastery for Read More [...]

How much coffee do I need?

By |2021-03-20T15:43:19+00:00November 24th, 2018|

How Much Coffee Do I Need? How much coffee to buy is a pretty tricky question and one that we get asked all the time. The short answer is, it all depends. It depends on how you make your coffee, it depends on how much coffee you drink and it depends on how many people are drinking coffee. Between myself Read More [...]

Decaf coffee just keeps getting better

By |2024-01-09T17:49:49+00:00October 11th, 2018|

Decaf coffee tastes as good as regular coffee now. Decaf coffee has improved almost beyond recognition over the past 5 or 6 years. Six or seven years ago, I wouldn't have had any enthusiasm for a cup of decaf coffee. It just wasn't very good. Even then, so recently, decaf wasn't taken half as seriously as it Read More [...]

Arabica coffee genome sequenced at University of California, Davis

By |2023-03-04T21:35:54+00:00September 22nd, 2018|

Arabica coffee genome is sequenced Farmer Jay Ruskey, left, and UC Davis researcher Juan Medrano, right, look at coffee cherries at Good Land Organics in Goleta, California. Pic Courtesy UC Davis Researchers at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have fully sequenced the Coffea Arabica genome and made the sequence public. Coffea Arabica represents about 70% of global Read More [...]

Sweet Sorrento coffee blend wins a 2 Star Great Taste Award

By |2018-10-30T20:28:06+00:00August 20th, 2018|

Great Taste Awards 2 Star Award for Sweet Sorrento coffee     Sweet Sorrento, one of our favourite Greenbean blends has won a 2 Star Great Taste Award in the most recent competition. The Great Taste Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food in the UK are like the food Oscars. They are by far the most prestigious and Read More [...]

Go to Top