The Wild Drink Blog

The sourcing is done, the grinder is installed and calibrated, the pots have arrived and we’ve got a great coffee to put in them… and the result is not even enough room to swing an infant hamster behind the bar! This is the beginning of my journey into brewed coffee. [...]

Just upgraded the blog software with seemingly no problems what so ever! Even all my plugins are apparently working to the point where i’m actually quite concerned that something is amiss. There are no noticeable differences to the untrained eye but the back end ‘dashboard’ has been moved round a bit, the best bit being [...]

My favourite drink as a boy was always cola, but I distinctly remember another contender which I rarely got a chance to enjoy, but when I did - it was amazing. It still surprises me how few people have actually tasted D&B as a child, for me it embodies all the sweet delight of being a young scally living in the countryside, as I did. [...]

That’s not ‘Starbucks have purchased a Clover‘, no no no, they’ve just jumped straight in there and bought Clovers entire parent company, The Coffee Equipment Company.

For anyone unfamiliar with Clover, it is a coffee brewing system that has been hailed as the next big thing in brewed coffee due to its stability and customisable temperature, water and brew settings. Yes, that’s right, Starbucks now own it. [...]

Do you like super power granted, cape wearing, portafilter branding, crimefighting baristas? Yeh, that’s right, I thought as much.

Coming very soon to a blog near you, the worlds first comic strip barista, Barista Boy [...]

Make no mistake, i’m an espresso boy. My career in coffee has developed from a love of espresso and the milky drinks that go with it, for me filter has until now been a cheap and easy way to stew coffee to the brink of glorious insipid death. It’s only in the last year that I have really come to appreciate the potential genius of good filter coffee, as well as other brewing methods and i’m pretty excited about it…