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| Written by Miles Spencer

To create delicious, flavourful and aromatic coffees to suit our own personal tastes, it’s important to not only choose the ideal, freshly roasted beans, but to also choose our preferred brewing method. With a selection of methods to choose from, and a wide range of quality equipment available to buy, we are presented with a great opportunity to make the perfect coffee every time. Once of the most popular brewing methods is with a bean-to-cup machine, which provides users with an automated process and delicious coffees at the simple press of a button, but there are many more great brewing...

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| Written by Miles Spencer

A coffee subscription, providing you with regular orders of your favourite beans on a personalised schedule, is a wonderful way to take the hassle out of buying coffee (and avoiding the prospect of running out before your first cup of the day!). What’s more, you will often find that subscription plans allow you to save on your everyday essentials, with some big savings available. With a coffee subscription plan from Coffee-Direct, you will save a massive 15% on every item on your plan, for every order! You can amend your subscription at any time and change the recurrence of your...

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If you are a coffee lover who likes to get their caffeine fix on the go, you are likely to have noticed some rather large increases in the cost of your favourite High Street coffees recently. With the cost of living crisis continuing to take a toll on the average prices of a range of commodities, and other external factors influencing High Street prices, it looks like the rising costs across our everyday treats and essentials will be around for some time. One way we can combat these price increases is to switch from buying our coffees from High Street...

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The cafetiere, or French Press, is a somewhat underrated method for preparing coffee, often being relegated below espresso makers as the go to piece of equipment for coffee lovers. However, the humble cafetiere should not be overlooked; cheap, simple to use, easy to store and clean, cafetieres will produce beautiful, full-flavoured and deeply aromatic coffees. Cafetieres require a coarser grind of coffee than is used for espresso makers, coffee filters and percolators. The coffee is brewed directly in hot water before the plunger is used to hold the grinds at the bottom of the container, and the strength of your...

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The Arabica coffee plant is thought to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, dating as far back as 12th century Yemen, and it remains the most commonly used coffee bean variety, leading the way ahead of the Robusta bean in second place. Produced in dozens of countries between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, Arabica, or coffea arabica, now represents around 60% of global production. Usually grown at elevations of around 1,300-1,500m and predominantly in subtropical climates such as in Brazil, Colombia and Central America, Arabica coffee beans offer a wonderful diversity of flavours,...

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