Tag Archives: coffee

April 24, 2013

Coffee Week Fun Facts, Coffee Festival Info & Information

Coffee Week is this year on right now and much like Chocolate Week, there is an amazing retail shopping opportunity available at the end-ish of the week at the Truman Brewery. There are some of the best coffees around on ...

January 23, 2013

Kopi Coffee of the Month Club

Not quite chocolate but Kopi has taken the club of the month idea and turned it towards a very noble endeavour indeed – coffee. With fewer flavour notes than chocolate if memory serves me right (much like wine) coffee is ...

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August 17, 2012

Askinosie Intelligentsia Coffee Chocolate CollaBARation Review

As you all know, I love Askinosie’s dedication to sharing the love. From working directly with farmers, guaranteeing them better than market rates (well above “fair trade” prices) to employing women from the local shelter to help package the bars, ...

July 4, 2012

Grumpy Mule Panama Esmeralda Coffee Review

Well, it’s morning and it’s a Sunday and so you know what that means… I get up early and wander down to make the breakfast and coffee while husband sleeps in then checks his email and rugby boards before being ...

July 3, 2012

Grumpy Mule Tanzania Footprint Coffee Review

When something has a "Great Taste Gold" of one (bronze), two (silver) or three (gold) stars (don’t get me started on the whole Great Taste Awards thing), I often try it to challenge the judging (again, just don’t ask) and ...

November 21, 2011

Southbank Tea and Coffee Festival

On a sunny weekend in November, the Tea and Coffee festival happened almost as a precursor to the Chocolate Festival in London (also in Oxford and other cities).  This festival saw a variety of coffee supliers from all over selling ...

October 25, 2011

Union Hand Roasted Coffee

I must start this post off with an admission – In my daily life when judging products I, at times, lack the journalistic impartiality which I should have and judge on appearance alone, digging no deeper than a superficial assessment ...

March 3, 2011

Cacao Sampaka Arabica Coffee Dark Chocolate Bar Review

Two dark chocolate slabs unmarred by anything but the logo is in a clear plastic bag inside the beautiful box. This is one sexy box. Black box, smooth lines, beautiful image of coffee beans and beautiful design. ...

March 2, 2011

Zotter Strong Coffee Chocolate Bar Review

AT LAST! I finally got a bar of Zotter chocolate from the lovely Dom at Chocablog and he gave me this lush Zotter strong coffee chocolate bar. He knew I wasn’t at all keen on bacon and so ...

January 31, 2011

Teuscher Coffee Chocolate Mini Bar Review

I picked up this mini bar at a Teuscher chocolate shop during a wiz around chocolate shops. I had it recommended to me as a quality Swiss chocolate.  It was certainly interesting and I’m always up for a good chocolate ...

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