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Until this review, I had never tried coffee from Mexico. Considering the fact that it’s the closest coffee-growing region to the United States, it’s strange that none of the coffee companies I worked for in Michigan ever stocked it. For this reason, and also because part of my
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It feels right that a company called Unorthodox Coffee Roasters should receive an atypical cafe review, for a number of reasons. A few months ago, I sat down to write my first review of their rather delicious Pure Magic El Salvador, but it turned out that there was very little
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It’s taken a while, but it seems like specialty coffee is finally beginning to take root in Aberdeen. With proper, well-crafted coffee being served all over the south of the country, it felt a little like the north-east is too far north, too far east, for anyone to take
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Original post, 20/11/2016 It’s a blustery autumn afternoon in the north east of Scotland, but the windows of The Coffee Apothecary in Udny glow bright with welcome. A combination coffee shop and post office in rural Aberdeenshire, 30 minutes drive north of Aberdeen, it is one of
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Cairngorm Coffee is the third point in the triangle of basement cafes in and around George Street that serve to inject delicious coffee into Edinburgh’s touristy New Town. It’s a strange serendipity that allows three top class cafes to exist basically within the same block (or underneath the
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Glen Lyon is, according to Sir Walter Scott, “the longest, loneliest, and loveliest glen in Scotland.” Located in Highland Perthshire and stretching 34 miles from the village of Fortingall to the head of Loch Lyon, it is the longest enclosed glen (valley) in the country. It is here that Glen
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Located at the foot of a sleek office building in downtown Glasgow, Laboratorio Espresso is a masterclass in doing one simple thing well. Maybe two things, if you count the cake. Opening in the autumn of 2013 on West Nile Street, a few minutes walk from Queen’s Street train
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Coffee has a long history in Malawi, but it’s still surprising to learn its origin: according to James Hoffmann, in his book The World Atlas of Coffee, it was a Scottish missionary, Dr James Buchanan, who first introduced the plant to this East African country. In 1878 he brought
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Inverness is the largest city and de facto capital of the Scottish Highlands. Nearly a quarter of the population of the Highlands live in or around it, so it’s clearly an important town - it's even been voted the best place to live in the country more
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One of the largest and most popular parks in Edinburgh is the Meadows, located just to the south of the city centre. It is a favourite with tourists, families, dog walkers and urban ramblers. With most parks, however, should a coffee thirst hit one’s options are usually limited to
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Kaf Coffee is extremely new. When I visited it had been open perhaps a week, tops. A sliver of a place with a bright white-painted storefront, it sits comfortably on Hyndland Street in Glasgow’s West End. However, it feels like it has been in business for years, the atmosphere
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One of the main reasons I started this blog (aside from it being a way to explore and promote the specialty coffee industry in Scotland), was in order to discover a broader range of coffee origins. My job as a roaster in the States, and the customer base of the