Single Origins or Coffee blends?

By |2023-01-08T20:15:54+00:00March 15th, 2022|

Are single origins better than coffee blends? Believe it or not, this is a relatively new question in the specialty coffee world. For most of coffee’s history it has been served as a blend and the world’s most famous and most desirable coffees were all blends. The classic Mocha Java pairing of Mocha beans from Read More [...]

California Coffee Project UC Davis

By |2023-03-04T21:36:22+00:00March 4th, 2022|

The California Coffee Project. The University of California, Davis, has been leading a project called the California Coffee Project since 2013, with the goal of exploring the potential for growing coffee in California and developing it as a specialty crop. The project is a collaborative effort between UC Davis researchers, coffee farmers, and industry professionals. Read More [...]

Coffee for Cycling

By |2022-03-28T15:07:16+00:00March 3rd, 2022|

Coffee For Cyclists You spoke, we listened. REVOLUTION. COFFEE FOR CYCLISTS. Out of the very small Dreambeans / Greenbean team, four of us are cyclists. We love coffee and we love cycling. We know how important coffee is to cycling and how seriously cyclists take their coffee. We believe in Read More [...]

Cortado Coffee, Café Cortado. Have you ordered one?

By |2022-03-21T21:51:40+00:00February 16th, 2022|

What is a cortado coffee, or a café cortado? What is a cortado? How is it different from a macchiato? And why are people everywhere  asking for it in coffee shops these days? There's a definite trend in coffee consumption towards stronger drinks with more coffee and less milk. As coffee gets better generally, our Read More [...]

Coffee beans logistics. Torero a (temporary) casualty.

By |2023-03-04T21:50:04+00:00January 27th, 2022|

Coffee Supply: Global Logistics Problems. Coffee bean shortage. Update: 28 February 2022. The Tanzanian has arrived. Following further delays caused by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin coming in quick succession, the coffee eventially got shipped and it arrived this morning. We'll be roasting today and Torero will be sent out tomorrow. Update: 10 February 2022. Read More [...]

History of Coffee. Kaldi the Goatherd

By |2026-08-26T17:21:14+00:00December 30th, 2021|

The first coffee drinkers. Kaldi the Goatherd. Abyssinia 850 AD. Discoverer of Coffee. 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 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 [...]

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