Articles

Brew Basics

Brewing Coffee for Beginners Table of Contents The art of brewing proper coffee is an enjoyable experience and how you brew does make a difference to the taste. In fact the same coffee brewed by different methods can seem almost unrecognisable to one another as they extract and emphasise different

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News

3DS Secure – new online card security protocols

Extra security when you’re buying online From March 14, retailers must check that it is you making the payment before they take money from your card as new changes to bank card transactions come into force. The changes come as part of the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fraud-prevention rules,

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News

UPDATE ON CUPS, LIDS & TAKEAWAY ITEMS

Due to ongoing increases in material and operational costs that have been passed on to us, we are again left with no alternative but to make price rises on certain products. We are really frustrated by this, but equally sympathetic given our own firsthand knowledge of the shipping and logistics

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News

PRICE CHANGES

A perfect storm of global and local issues along with uncertainty have forced a price increase as of December 1st, 2021. We do not believe in rising prices for the sake of it, in fact we haven’t done any coffee price rises since 2017. Everyone is aware from news stories

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Articles

Coffee Distributors of the Year 2021

We won! 🏆🍾😁 All will be official in November but we are allowed to tell you that we received this email recently: On behalf of LUXlife, I am writing to inform you that the results of the 6th annual Food & Drink Awards have been finalised! It is an absolute pleasure to confirm

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Articles

Recipe Ideas, new flavours & more

We’ve been working with Zuma and Sweetbird for years and love what they do. They consistently produce the highest quality products and are always full of great ideas. They recently released their new catalogue which is chock full of interesting news and great recipes.  In this post we’ve curated the

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Long Read

Greenwashing

Introduction With the word “ethical” in our company name you won’t be surprised to hear that we are often asked what ethics means to us; why we do what we do; how we do it; and what makes us different to others. Particularly being in the coffee world which in

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Products

Take-out items: Price Update

As you are probably aware from the news there are huge challenges with items coming in from overseas at the moment.  From all suppliers we are being met with a lack of product availability and significant price increases.  This is due to a perfect storm of post-Covid demand, Brexit border

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Articles

Understanding Deforestation

I’ve heard the statistic before but it still both hard to comprehend but horrifying. The need for firewood and charcoal, and thus the effect on forests is a big problem, and when it’s a choice of personal survival or planet I do understand the predicament, and I try to not

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South America

Brazilian News Archive

Great Brazilian Coffee Direct This year we started a new feature on our journal and through social media where once a month we highlight one of our single origin sources. This month it’s our Brazilian Gerezim.  We thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of the original

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