Education

Each week we will be hosting a free coffee tasting for anyone and everyone to come and enjoy. We have been running this at 42 Douglas St, Auckland for a while now, but have introduced here in Wellington at Customs. The idea is simply to explore the possibilities with different coffees and brewing methods.

You may have noticed we have been labeling some of our coffees with some new terminology lately, such as Maragogype or Bourbon, for example. These names denote the botanical varietal of the coffee in question.

You may have noticed that we’ve been making a bit of a song and dance about our latest Cup of Excellence coffees from Nicaragua and El Salvador. Its simply because they are some of the very best coffees produced there this year.

Sometimes we are asked why we don’t offer the same coffees from one year to the next. There are many factors in play but there is one in particular I would like to cover in this post.