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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.

Dreambeans Coffee on the Late Late Show

By |2021-03-15T11:52:35+00:00March 15th, 2021|

Dundalk's Dreambeans Coffee to feature in Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special Dreambeans Coffee (dreambeanscoffee.ie) will feature on the Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special to be broadcast on Wednesday night, 17 March 2021. Dreambeanscoffee.ie is the consumer sales arm of Greenbean Coffee Roasters on Coes Road and they are delighted to have been selected to provide the coffee for a special box of Irish artisan products which will be sent to lucky recipients around the world, chosen by RTE. The Read More [...]

Last orders for coffee before Christmas!

By |2020-12-17T19:28:17+00:00December 17th, 2020|

Last Christmas orders before 12:00 on Friday 18th 2020 Merry Christmas!  The last chance to order your favourite Dreambeans Coffee in time for Christmas will be 12:00 on Friday 18th December. Our couriers are busier than ever before this year and they may not be able to make any pickups after Friday evening. If you want to get some coffee for Christmas, please place your orders as soon as possible. https://dreambeanscoffee.ie/ Imagine if you ran out of proper coffee over Christmas? It would be a long Read More [...]

Pat McArdle interview on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny Show. December 2020

By |2020-12-04T18:33:43+00:00December 4th, 2020|

Pat McArdle was interviewed on Newstalk's Pat Kenny Show December 2020 Thanks to all at LEO Louth for their help and support. Transcript of conversation with Johnathan Healy (who was sitting in for Pat Kenny) Johnathan Healy: Pat McArdle is the owner of dream beans coffee in County Louth. Hello Pat. How are you? Pat McArdle: I'm very well Jonathan How are you? Johnathan Healy: I'm good. You're growing coffee in Co Louth now, are you? Pat McArdle: Well no, we're Read More [...]

Rising Tide. Coffee for sea-swimmers, created by sea-swimmers.

By |2022-02-28T20:41:53+00:00November 21st, 2020|

Rising Tide Coffee Coffee and sea swimming Like a lot of people, we started swimming in the sea during the first lockdown because the beach was one of the few places we could go. Little by little, the swims became more frequent and by the beginning of May we were swimming every day.  All summer long, swimming was a lifesaver. A bright spot in every day, something to look forward to, somewhere to meet people outdoors and have a chat Read More [...]

Flash Sale. 20% off all coffee, just for today!

By |2019-12-01T15:29:02+00:00December 1st, 2019|

Try our  Jaggy Loko. Two Star Great Taste Award Winner 2019. Use Discount code 1 DECEMBER Have you tried Jaggy Loko yet? The Great Taste Awards judges loved it, giving it two gold stars in 2019 saying: “Good looking beans, individual varieties seem to have been roasted separately. We tasted it as espresso, then with milk and the rich fruitiness is suddenly developed. Such a good chocolatey, malted biscuit finish. You set out to create a great flat white and that’s exactly what you’ve done.” If Read More [...]

Jaggy Loko blend wins two gold stars in Great Taste Awards

By |2022-02-28T20:34:54+00:00August 5th, 2019|

Dreambeans' newest blend, Jaggy Loko has won a 2 STAR Great Taste Award. The Great Taste Awards are the most prestigious awards in food and drink and they are very keenly contested each year. Two gold stars is a great achievement.The judging is organised by the Guild of Fine Foods and the judging is blind and anonymous. The judges never know which brand or product they’re tasting. This is the second Dreambeans to win a two star Great taste Award, Sweet Sorrento won two stars Read More [...]

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 these two weeks so we simply won't have time to roast the micro batches necessary to blend Torero, Sumatra Storm, Oromia and Bossa Nova Blonde.  Read More [...]

“COLLECT” your coffee in Dundalk, get a a discount

By |2024-04-19T10:36:51+00:00June 5th, 2019|

Click and Collect Your Coffee from the Roastery and Save 10% You can buy your coffee online, pick it up as soon as it's ready and get a 10% discount while you're at it. It's now much easier for local people to get their hands on Greenbean coffee without having to wait for deliveries and without having to pay for shipping. Using the coupon code COLLECT during the checkout process will give you a 10% discount on all the coffee in your basket and 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 and my wife, we drink a lot of coffee in our house. I drink about 4-5 cups per day and my wife drinks about 3 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 is now. It was treated as something of an oddity, to mollify people who didn't really like coffee anyway, or who weren't serious about their Read More [...]

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