Rising Tide Coffee Coffee and sea swimming Like a lot of people, we started swimming in the sea during the first lockdown because the beach was one of the few places we could go. Little by little, the swims became more frequent and by the beginning of May we were swimming every day.  All summer long, swimming was a lifesaver. A bright spot in every day, something to look forward to, somewhere to meet people outdoors and have a chat Read More [...]

Try our  Jaggy Loko. Two Star Great Taste Award Winner 2019. Use Discount code 1 DECEMBER Have you tried Jaggy Loko yet? The Great Taste Awards judges loved it, giving it two gold stars in 2019 saying: “Good looking beans, individual varieties seem to have been roasted separately. We tasted it as espresso, then with milk and the rich fruitiness is suddenly developed. Such a good chocolatey, malted biscuit finish. You set out to create a great flat white and that’s exactly what you’ve done.” If Read More [...]

Dreambeans' newest blend, Jaggy Loko has won a 2 STAR Great Taste Award. The Great Taste Awards are the most prestigious awards in food and drink and they are very keenly contested each year. Two gold stars is a great achievement.The judging is organised by the Guild of Fine Foods and the judging is blind and anonymous. The judges never know which brand or product they’re tasting. This is the second Dreambeans to win a two star Great taste Award, Sweet Sorrento won two stars Read More [...]

Coffee Roasters' Summer Holidays July 2019 As the summer holidays have arrived, we will be operating on a limited roasting schedule for the two weeks between Monday 8 July 2019 and Friday 19 July 2019. This means that we won't be able to roast any of our Specials during this period. A skeleton staff will be in the roastery for these two weeks so we simply won't have time to roast the micro batches necessary to blend Torero, Sumatra Storm, Oromia and Bossa Nova Blonde.  Read More [...]

Click and Collect Your Coffee from the Roastery and Save 10% You can buy your coffee online, pick it up as soon as it's ready and get a 10% discount while you're at it. 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. Using the coupon code COLLECT during the checkout process will give you a 10% discount on all the coffee in your basket and 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 [...]