What is Natural Process Coffee? (Dry Process Explained) Natural Coffee Processing. The natural process, also known as the dry coffee processing method, is a traditional technique where the entire coffee cherry remains intact during the drying stage. Unlike the washed process, which removes the fruit pulp before drying, natural processing allows the coffee bean to Read More [...]

Iced Coffee at Home. Best Iced Coffee Recipe. Our eldest daughter, Iseult, has started drinking coffee in the past year, and it’s been interesting to see the extent to which younger people’s coffee tastes have shifted in recent times. Iseult and her friends drink iced coffee all the time, winter or summer, and she is Read More [...]

Coffee under threat from rising temperatures. What Rising Temperatures Mean for The Coffee Trade. Here’s a sobering thought. Many of the places around the world that grow your favourite beans are steadily getting hotter and hotter, nearly too hot to grow coffee. And that matters more than most people realise. Coffee Has a Comfort Zone Read More [...]

Last Orders and Christmas Closing 2025. Christmas Orders at Dreambeans. Don't run out of coffee! There’s nothing worse than running out of good coffee just as the house fills up and everyone suddenly wants one more cup. The last thing you want is to be drinking supermarket coffee after your Christmas dinner! Make sure you Read More [...]

EUDR: EU Deforestation Regulation What the New EU Deforestation Rules will mean for your cup of coffee The EU’s new deforestation regulation is going to have an impact on how coffee is grown, traded and sold into the EU. It will affect everyone from small family farms to the co-ops that process beans, to the Read More [...]

The benefits of drinking coffee in the morning. Health Benefits of Drinking Coffee in the Morning Most of the people who care enough about coffee to read this blog will start the day in more or less the same way, by getting a good cup of coffee into their hnd as quickly as possible. I Read More [...]

Fastway Couriers: hoping for a solution. Fastway Couriers: a big thank you from Dreambeans Coffee. Since the very beginning of Dreambeans Coffee, Fastway Couriers have been part of our delivery team. We built our business around getting freshly roasted coffee to customers quickly, and Fastway helped us do just that. Week after week, when customers Read More [...]

The cost of roasting coffee in 2025. We’ve always believed in being upfront with our customers, so I want to explain why we’ve had to increase our prices in August 2025. Like every small business in Ireland, our costs have gone up significantly. You only need to look at the price of a coffee in Read More [...]

Great Taste Awards Two Stars for Cinco Jalisco.  Cinco Jalisco Wins Two Gold Stars at the 2025 Great Taste Awards! We’ve got some fcool news to share! Our newest blend, Cinco Jalisco, has just been awarded Two Gold Stars at the 2025 Great Taste Awards, the most respected and rigorous food awards in the world! Read More [...]

Which coffee processing method is best? Coffee processing methods explained - a coffee roaster’s perspective. If you buy coffee online, from Dreambeans or from anyone else, the chances are you’ve come across terms like “washed,” “natural,” or “honey process” in the descriptions. This can feel a bit like coffee jargon, and to most people, these Read More [...]