Bialetti Moka Pot. The Bialetti Moka Pot is one of our favourite ways to make coffee and it’s great for home users. The coffee you make won't be quite as strong as the espresso from a top grade espresso machine but it is much stronger than coffee from a percolator or coffee from a French press and it has great flavour and a lovely texture if you make it right.  Coffee for two I particularly like the six cup Moka Pot because it Read More [...]

Frost in Brazil's coffee regions will hit coffee harvest hard . It looks like coffee prices are on the rise following a very unseasonal sharp frost in Brazil. Many growers have been hit hard. A series of unseasonal frosts in the coffee-growing regions of Brazil has had a serious impact on Brazil’s coffee crop and is expected to impact on world supply of Arabica coffee beans. Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. The first of the frosts came on Read More [...]

The best coffee dessert: affogato If you like coffee and do you like ice cream you're going to love affogato. It's an Italian dessert made with coffee and ice cream and it is the simplest thing in the whole world to make and it's absolutely perfect for a hot sunny afternoon or for dessert on a summer evening. Aggogato means “drowning” in Italian and it is so named because the expresso coffee drowns the ice cream in the glass or bowl. Great Read More [...]

Hand-made, Hand-roasted, Hand-painted. We love these hand-painted videos that Caoimhe O'Dwyer has made for Dreambeans. There's a whole series of them, which we'll be rolling out over the next while. We love this low-tech, hand-made way of making video. It really chimes with our approach to making coffee. Artisan Coffee We do things a little slower here at Dreambeans. We take more time roasting coffee than any coffee roaster we know. Nearly all our coffees are blends, Read More [...]

Coffee and cycling. A quick survey We are working on a new coffee blend, specifically for cyclists and for cycling. Of our small team in the Dreambeans roast house, four of us are cyclists. We know that cyclists take their coffee very seriously. The coffee stop is an integral part of nearly every leisure spin and the pros take their coffee intake very seriously, measuring and tracking caffeine levels to ensure that they are ready for the optimum endurance and effort at Read More [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]