All things Coffee!
I think it’s fair to say that 2020 has been erm…..a substantial year. Global pandemic aside, I had a son and moved house, too. So, yeah. A big one! Ninja Refinery has presisted, regardless. Ninja Refinery is about games and coffee, not my life, and I continued on both fronts, albeit not quite as significantly […]
I’ll be honest, until I got a follow from Tiki Tonga Coffee Roasters on Instagram, I’d never heard of them. But I’m always on the lookout for a new roaster to try, and to see what people can come up with. Tiki Tonga have plenty of roasts available, and honestly, I wish I could have […]
Cannonball Coffee are one of my favourite coffee companies, and recently I purchased a couple more of their roasts. The “Dark Charge” and the 30-day whiskey barrel-aged beans. This isn’t so much a full review of both, because it’s the same high-caffeine robusta beans that I’ve already reviewed. No, what’s special here is how they’ve […]
The Coffee Mate were good enough to reach out not so long ago, and send me through two different bags of beans that they have roasted and sell over at thecoffeemate.co.uk. Santa Petrona and Maragogype, this is a review of the Santa Petrona blend. As anyone that read my reviews over here, I love trying […]
Cannonball time: It’s easy to write coffee’s-off as a gimmick when they focus on the “strongest ever” or “ultra-high caffeine” etc. I get it, I’ve tried a few, and it’s usually a bitter-tasting, darkly roasted cup of crap. So when Cannonball Coffee started popping-up in my timelines (mostly Instagram), I kind of just shrugged it […]
A whole new decade is upon us! 2020 is going to see the release of the next generation of consoles, and no dooubt the improvement of the “games as a service” model (Stadia, XCloud etc). Fantastic, right?! Well, yeah. But that’s potentially a lot of money, and honestly, a lot of time that I’m not […]
I’ll be honest, if you say Nescafe I just think of “Gold Blend” and horrible freeze-dried coffee. It isn’t for me, but on occasions it’s all there is, and well, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Following on from the surprisingly excellent canned Costa coffee’s, I’ve been paying more attention to chiller sections in shops to […]
Over the weekend I saw that Costa Coffee have released a range of canned, cold coffee drinks. Never one to shy away from a new gimmick and coffee drink, I of course leapt at the opportunity to give them a go! Of the 3 available “Straight Forward” (Americano), “Smooth Sidekick” (Latte) and “Sweet Sidekick” (Caramel […]
The past month has seen quite a drop in me creating and publishing posts. Not so much because I have nothing to write about, but because I’m struggling for time at the minute. Coffee is being drunk, games are being played, but I’m not getting it all up here. With four or five half-written pieces […]
Coffee drinks are always fun to try. The spin that people put them on generally boils down to new flavours, different syrups or perhaps different roasts. Iced coffee is great in the summer, and honestly, despite the heavy milk and sugar content, I like a cold coffee drink from time to time. Not so long […]