Coffee Freshness the key

As a consumer that has now spent only the last 3 years enjoying fresh roasted coffee, I forget that I too was one of those who drank coffee not know how fresh the roast was. In the last week I am amazed how even the most innocent novice can pick up that coffee that is over 2 weeks old is stale. And most of them are in shock when I then have to inform them that, that is what they are drinking when the go to you typical coffee outlet, whether purchasing whole bean, or from a coffee shop a cup-a-joe.

 

I was also informed this week that the number of coffee roasts that publish their roasting date on their coffee is so minimalistic it is almost not a percent. How can you claim to do quality or specialty coffee and not state your roasting date, come on, get real.

 

So if you love coffee make sure you only purchase coffee with a roasting date on the packaging.

A coffee recipe called Irish Dream

Here is a coffee recipe I got emailed from Jura, called an Irish Dream. We of course recommend fresh roasted specialty grade coffee with your Jura coffee machine to make it:

Ingredients

• 30 ml espresso
  
• 1 cl coffee liquor / or whiskey (alcoholic)
  
• 1 tbsp whipped cream
  
• 1 pinch cocoa powder
  
• Irish Cream flavoured syrup (can leave out)
  

Preparation

• Pour 1 cl of alcoholic liquid into a shot glass.
  
• Prepare an espresso with 30 ml of water, and strength to you preference we recommend normal.
  
• Top the drink with a dome of whipped cream.
  

Serving suggestion

• 1 shot glass (50 ml)
  
• Espresso spoon
  
• Sugar (if required)
  
• Drizzle a little Irish Cream flavoured syrup over the whipped cream and dust with a little cocoa powder.
  
• Place a chocolate-coated coffee bean on top of the cream. (just for decoration)

Coffee glorious coffee

It is amazing how coffee can be the base of so many wonderful goodies, coffee liquor, coffee cake, cappuccino muffins, and cappuccino sweets. And in today's society coffee has a love hate relationship with everyone. We all love it but hate it because we are told by all that is it bad for you.

The irony is that good quality coffee is good for you, but the stuff used in the items above is a hydrated blend of some of the worst coffees you can find. The leading instant coffee manufacturer is the largest user of a coffee filler, based on a tree found in the Congo basin originally. We they found it no one ate it, a few animals had adapted to consume it, but it was far from their favourite food, and now that tree is grouped in the coffee genius even though it had 50% less chromosomes. I never under stood planet biology but that sounds wrong.

So you love all these things and want to make them yourselves then make coffee fresh from a great super automatic coffee machine and use only high quality specialty grade coffee, shade grown of course, and you can have you cake and eat it

Rental Options for Offices from Quaffee

A question I often get via email goes like this:

 

Q: Hi, please can you send me a quote of the automatic coffee machines you have available for rental (preferably with a cappuccino and espresso option)

A:

You can check the prices online. The machines available for rental start at the XF50, a good small to medium size office machine that has mainly coffee and a little cappuccino, and then all the way up to our canteen style machine which is the X9.

As a guide here are some pages of reference:

• Click coffee machine rental that is for offices and is OPEX based, or from the Quaffee main page click Rentals, Long term Rentals.
  
• To view the range of machines then go to the Jura coffee machines, where you can compare the range
  

We normally recommend either the Jura XF50, does coffee and cappuccino, but the milk part of the cappuccino has to be done in a separate action. The Jura XS95 does this in one action, all you do is press one button, and you can do a comparative quote for these on the rental pages

New Gaggia

We may have a winner here. Gaggia have brought out a machine that appears something I would mull over recommending. They have sorted out their accessibility issues having learnt lessons from the Jura coffee machines, and a few other makes.


A Simpler layout and good solid construction have been used, instead of the older Gaggia which left me with concerns.


I have not tasted the coffee, and it still has a removable serviceable unit, which is a concern, but once I will I am sure it will make the par, after all the other changes they have made.


Look forward to playing with it