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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.

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 [...]

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 coffee production with the balance of around 30% made up of Coffea Canephora, or Robusta. Arabica beans produce much higher quality beans than Robusta, although Read More [...]

Coffee makes you smarter. Even the smell alone is enough to improve your maths scores.

By |2022-02-28T20:28:20+00:00August 30th, 2018|

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee! Even the smell of coffee alone is enough to improve your test performance! Coffee makes you smarter. It's a fact. Even the smell of coffee alone is enough to make you smarter and improve your scores in maths tests. The Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA has published a study showing that the scent of coffee alone is enough to boost people's performance in the analytical element of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) a 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 most trusted food awards and they are a real endorsement of any food or drink. The star ratings are from one to three stars and Read More [...]

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