Welcome to the Caffe Society Blog
Caffe Society Blog - Daily news from the world of coffee
February 2012 | Subcribe via RSS
After a heavy, alcohol-fuelled night out, people often turn to common treatments such as caffeine and over-the-counter medication, in the hope of easing their headache. And now, according to a study published at the end of 2010 in the online, peer-reviewed PLoS One, a science journal, there is proof that such remedies may have a [...]
Posted by Phil on the 31st January 2011
More than 7 million people in Australia, which equates to 41 per cent of the national population, buy coffee in instant format in a regular month, according to figures recently released by Roy Morgan. Going by the same data, the market is clearly dominated by the global leading brand, with 24 per cent of non-decaffeinated [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 28th January 2011
Originally aired as a televised version in July 2010, EBS Docu-Prime’s ‘Himalayan Coffee Road,’ a popular documentary, can now be read in book form. With the documentary capturing the day to day lives of villagers in the small Nepalese town of Aslewa Male situated below the Himalayas, the book offers a deeper look at the [...]
Posted by Matt on the 27th January 2011
Andrew Heppner, a 23 year old native of Bay City in the US and owner of his own, newly-opened coffee shop, Populace Coffee, is combining some traditional brewing techniques with the latest and greatest technology at his premises. Crafting his coffee by hand with hardly any or no use of machinery, Heppner uses just boiling [...]
Posted by Phil on the 26th January 2011
Tennis players An-Sophie Mestach and Hugo Dellien, Belgian and Bolivian respectively and both aged 17, won the recent 47th Tennis Coffee Cup. To reach her position of glory, Meastach beat French competitor Carolina Garcia 6-4, 7-5 during the women’s final, which brought her to third ranking on the FIT youth world scale. Likewise, Dellien put [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 26th January 2011
Brazil, the powerhouse of coffee production, is expected to harvest its largest off-year crop yet in the 2011-12 period, according to the country’s agriculture ministry, helping to allay concerns of an increasingly tight global market as a result of recent weather conditions. In terms of 60kg bags, the Brazilian government agency, Conab, placed production at [...]
Posted by Matt on the 21st January 2011
US-based Carrboro Coffee Roasters has been chosen as a finalist in the San Francisco-hosted Good Food Awards, an initiative that is designed to recognise authenticity, quality and responsibility in food. The award programme was created through a collaborative effort of food producers, food journalists, farmers and independent grocers and seeks to recognise that truly quality [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 20th January 2011
Having lost his job in manufacturing, Aldwyn Jenkins created himself a success story with the opening of Refresh Coffee in Tredegar, South Wales, thanks to funding supplied by JobMatch. Since just last year, the coffee business has grown consistently, to the point where two additional members of staff were appointed, with Jenkins also considering sending [...]
Posted by Phil on the 19th January 2011
A Bristol-based independent coffee house company by the name of Coffee #1, which has already established 14 coffee outlets across the South West of the country, has identified Penarth as the perfect location for its next new coffee house. The chosen premises, which Coffee #1 has been searching for in the area for some time, [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 18th January 2011
A new art display running in January at Hampton Court, London’s The Fountain Gallery, will be showing a unique collection by a Greek-Cypriot artist using coffee as his main media. Based in Teddington, where he settled in 1996 following his graduation from Hornsey College of Arts Painting School, Michael Minas was inspired by his choice [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 14th January 2011
Copyright © 2012 Caffe Society. All rights reserved.