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 about what makes Greenbean / Dreambeans Coffee so special. We're going to post all four audio clips of the Greenbean / Dreambeans crew over the Read More [...]

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 and about what makes Greenbean / Dreambeans Coffee so special. It can seem little confusing at times because there's Pat O'Shaughnessy from LMFM, Pat Grant Read More [...]

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 the mouth in a glorious fashion. Clever roasting – all separately, all the same level of roast. This delivers perfect balance and a long, long Read More [...]

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 to increase the price of all our coffee blends from the beginning of September 2021. This is Dreambeans' first ever price increase. We have absorbed Read More [...]

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 has great flavour and a lovely texture if you make it right.  Coffee for two I particularly like the six cup Moka Pot because it Read More [...]

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 is expected to impact on world supply of Arabica coffee beans. Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. The first of the frosts came on Read More [...]

The best coffee dessert: affogato If you like coffee and do you like ice cream you're going to love affogato. It's an Italian dessert made with coffee and ice cream and it is the simplest thing in the whole world to make and it's absolutely perfect for a hot sunny afternoon or for dessert on a summer evening. Aggogato means “drowning” in Italian and it is so named because the expresso coffee drowns the ice cream in the glass or bowl. Great Read More [...]

Hand-made, Hand-roasted, Hand-painted. We love these hand-painted videos that Caoimhe O'Dwyer has made for Dreambeans. There's a whole series of them, which we'll be rolling out over the next while. We love this low-tech, hand-made way of making video. It really chimes with our approach to making coffee. Artisan Coffee We do things a little slower here at Dreambeans. We take more time roasting coffee than any coffee roaster we know. Nearly all our coffees are blends, Read More [...]

Coffee and cycling. A quick survey We are working on a new coffee blend, specifically for cyclists and for cycling. Of our small team in the Dreambeans roast house, four of us are cyclists. We know that cyclists take their coffee very seriously. The coffee stop is an integral part of nearly every leisure spin and the pros take their coffee intake very seriously, measuring and tracking caffeine levels to ensure that they are ready for the optimum endurance and effort at Read More [...]