History of Coffee. Kaldi the Goatherd

By |2025-09-28T14:26:27+00:00December 30th, 2021|

The first coffee drinkers. Kaldi the Abyssinian goatherd Legend has it that sometime around 850 AD, an Abyssinian (Ethiopian) goat herder named Kaldi was the first to recognize the potential of the beans that grew in the ancient coffee forests high on the Ethiopian plateau. According to legend, Kaldi discovered coffee after observing that Read More [...]

Coffee Leaf Rust: The Race Against Time

By |2022-03-21T21:56:26+00:00December 29th, 2021|

Coffee Leaf Rust: An Existential Threat? In 2012 the Royal Botanic Kew Gardens in London released a ground-breaking study that used computer modelling to predict how climate change would impact the future of wild Arabica coffee plants. The bleak findings shared that if trends continue Arabica coffee could be extinct in 70 years. Headlines proclaiming Read More [...]

Greenbean / Dreambeans on LMFM Part 4

By |2021-11-28T13:42:36+00:00November 27th, 2021|

Pat McArdle Dreambeans Coffee LMFM When our TORERO blend won THREE STARS at the Great Taste Awards and became the first Irish coffee blend ever to be nominated for a Golden Fork Award, our local radio station, LMFM came to the roast house one Friday morning in October to talk to us about the award and about what makes Read More [...]

Greenbean / Dreambeans Coffee LMFM Part 3

By |2021-11-20T15:28:33+00:00November 20th, 2021|

The Greenbean / Dreambeans Roast House LMFM When our TORERO blend won THREE STARS at the Great Taste Awards and became the first Irish coffee blend ever to be nominated for a Golden Fork Award, our local radio station, LMFM came to the roast house one Friday morning in October to talk to us about the award and about Read More [...]

Greenbean / Dreambeans on LMFM (Part 2)

By |2021-11-17T20:03:14+00:00November 12th, 2021|

TORERO 3 Star Great Taste Award on LMFM When our TORERO blend won THREE STARS at the Great Taste Awards and became the first Irish coffee blend ever to be nominated for a Golden Fork Award, our local radio station, LMFM came to the roast house one Friday morning in October to talk to us about the award and Read More [...]

Greenbean / Dreambeans on LMFM Oct 2021

By |2022-04-11T15:02:16+00:00November 5th, 2021|

TORERO 3 Star Great Taste Award on LMFM When our TORERO coffee blend won THREE STARS at the Great Taste Awards and became the first Irish coffee blend ever to be nominated for a Golden Fork Award, our local radio station, LMFM came to the roast house one Friday morning in October to talk to us about the award Read More [...]

Great Taste Awards: Three Stars for Dreambeans Torero

By |2021-11-06T12:37:12+00:00October 4th, 2021|

Wow! Our Torero blend has just won THREE STARS at the 2021 Great Taste Awards! What a result! The judges LOVED it and gave it the highest award possible, three gold stars! This is what they said about it: Torero. “Balanced. Fruity with cherries and a basketful of red fruits that fill Read More [...]

Coffee prices are rising

By |2021-09-17T15:55:31+00:00August 22nd, 2021|

Coffee prices are rising around the world A combination of drought, frost and freight prices has brought coffee prices to a level that hasn't been seen for nearly a decade. Rising freight costs, reduced shipping capacity and increase consumption of coffee have come together to drive the price ever upwards. It is with great reluctance that we will have Read More [...]

Bialetti Moka Pot

By |2021-08-22T17:59:52+00:00August 5th, 2021|

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 Read More [...]

Frost in Brazil: Coffee crop hit hard.

By |2021-07-26T23:01:03+00:00July 26th, 2021|

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 Read More [...]

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