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Summer is here and there is no better way to get a caffeine hit than with a delicious cold brew coffee. Cool and refreshing, packed with wonderful, robust flavours, cold brews make the perfect treat on these sunny days. What Coffee Should Be Used in Cold Brew?If you are looking for a sweet, creamy drink, look for a medium roast bean from Costa Rica or Guatemala, while Kenyan and Ethiopian coffee beans will result in a fruitier, more refreshing cold brew. We recommend going for a rich, well-rounded flavour, in a coarse grind, such as our Percolator grind.    ...

The term “pour-over” is used in the coffee world to describe a number of different brewing methods, with the common factor being that the brewing is achieved through percolation, whereby water passes through a bed of ground coffee and extracts flavour along the way. Usually there is some sort of material used to filter the grounds from the resulting drink, which might be made from paper, cloth or fine metal mesh. What Makes a Good Pour-Over Coffee? When coffee is brewed with a filter brewer, three key variables affect the resulting cup of coffee: The grind of the coffee –...

Findings from a new study of almost 50,000 women, followed over 30 years, suggest that a morning cup of coffee might do more than boost energy - it could also help women stay sharp, strong and mentally well as they age. The large study found that women consuming caffeinated coffee in midlife are more likely to be healthy agers, with three small daily doses of caffeine linked to long-term health benefits. The author of the study, Dr Sara Mahdavi of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, said that the...

With over 30 years’ experience producing speciality coffee beans, Coffee-Direct offers a wide range of exclusive, high-quality coffee blends – specially crafted roasts made up of more than one single-origin bean, carefully developed by our expert team of roasters. Each combination is rigorously tried and tested to create new and delicious flavour profiles that balance out varying acidities, taste notes and aromas, and, like all our coffees, our blends are roasted to order and in small batches, ensuring you always receive the freshest beans to your door. How are Coffee Blends Made?The blending process occurs before the beans are roasted....

A single origin coffee is one that is grown within a single geographic area, as opposed to a coffee blend that is made from a combination of various coffee beans from multiple regions. Because of the way in which they are produced, single origin coffees can offer particularly unique characteristics, flavours and aromas that cannot be found in other origin varieties or coffee blends, and at Coffee-Direct you can find a wonderful range of beautiful single origin coffees from some of the world’s most renowned coffee-growing countries, including India, Kenya, Colombia, Brazil and Costa Rica. A variety of factors go...