Click and Collect Your Coffee from the Roast House. You can buy your coffee online and pick it up as soon as it's ready from our roast house on Coes Road, Dundalk. 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. Simply choose Click & Collect as your shipping option during checkout. This will give you free shipping, even if your order is less than €40. Read More [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]