Coffee Geeks Blog

Calling all male coffee lovers – the excuse you’ve been looking for to invest in another bag of gourmet beans has just landed right in your lap…no pun intended!

Right now, there’s more conflicting and confusing information flying around about coffee than ever before. While hard-liners stick true to their beliefs that java will in fact earn you nothing more than an early grave, a thousand and one studies seem to be painting a picture of the exact opposite.

Love it or loathe it, cold-brew coffee is set to be the biggest thing to hit the UK in years – just in time for the summer sunshine, too. There will always be those who consider these kinds of new techniques and processes something of an affront to classic coffee, but to be perfectly honest if you’ve ever tried a really good cold-brew coffee…well, let’s just say you’ll know that the haters don’t know what they’re talking about – it’s awesome!

Recently, the original inventor of the now famous and infamous disposable coffee capsules admitted that were he to be given the opportunity, he’d go back to the point he came up with the idea and make sure it never happened. A revolution it may have been for coffee lovers, but the system has been heavily criticised over the years for adding millions of tons of waste to an annual tally that’s already difficult to control.

According to the country’s Specialty Food Association, specialty coffee has overtaken seafood, poultry and frozen meats to become America’s second most important and widely-sold specialty food of all by way of hard sales. Last year alone…and bear in mind the American economy still isn’t out of the woods yet…a full $109 billion went on specialty food sales, which according to the SFA is the handle given to “products that have limited distribution and a reputation for high quality.”

There's really no getting away from the fact that coffee is a bigger deal right now in the UK than it has ever been. Of course, this comes largely down to the fact that we as a country now have access to the world's finest coffees and coffee products the likes of which were unheard of to most of us not too long ago. And what's more, the fact that decent coffee no longer costs a fortune doesn't hurt things either.

There’s much to be said for being a space traveller, but one of the real joys of life those aboard the ISS have been totally starved of is the prospect of waking up in the morning to the smell of real coffee.

That is, until now.

There will always be those who claim to be bona-fide coffee addicts when in reality they’re just partial to the odd skinny latte a couple of times a week when the mood takes them. As any real coffee addict will know however, this is a badge of honour you rally cannot qualify for unless you measure up to a rather strict set of criteria the likes of which are only known to those who fit the profile.

Hot on the heels of one Aerosmith drummer who’s been spotted pounding the pavements promoting his own coffee brand, the rock legends that are Judas Priest have officially announced the launch of their very first signature coffee. That’s Judas Priest…launching a brand of coffee…the word ‘surreal’ just doesn’t seem to cover it properly.