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The Top Eight Influences on Coffee Flavour

We recently conducted a survey with some of our regular customers to find out why they keep returning to our coffee.  The message back was loud and clear - the primary reason is flavour!   There we...

Single Origin Beans vs Coffee Bean Blends

The rise in availability of high quality single origin coffees in coffee shops and on-line retailers has prompted coffee fans to examine the relative virtues of single origin coffees verses blends....

A guide to our different types of coffee

A journey through Spiller & Tait's different types of coffee  Something that sets Spiller & Tait apart from other UK coffee roasters is that we only offer a small range of freshly roasted c...

What is the best type of coffee for Espresso?

There are several misconceptions when it comes to the coffee beans used to create an espresso. The first misconception is that espresso is a particular type of bean grown in a particular country.  ...

Winners of 2 Great Taste Awards!

We are delighted to be among the Great Taste winners of 2017 with not one, but two awards!  1 star for our Signature Blend Coffee and a prestigious 3 star rating for our Matcha Tea, the highest awa...

Getting the Most from your bean to cup machine

For many households a super-automatic bean to cup coffee machine is used to produce a consistent, great tasting espresso shot for that caffeine filled jolt to start the day. However just like a tra...

5 tips for checking how fresh your coffee beans are

How to Check Your Coffee Beans are Fresh infographic

How to make the perfect espresso at home using a traditional espresso machine

So you’ve spent hundreds, or thousands, of pounds on a home espresso coffee maker, but how confident are you in your home barista skills?  Our co-founder David has been wholesaling fresh coffee for...

How is Coffee Roasted?

How coffee is roasted Roasting the coffee beans is one of the biggest influences on the flavour of your coffee.  Roasting takes the green coffee seed, which has almost no flavour beyond a quite unp...

How does a coffee percolator work?

Once a favoured coffee making device, coffee percolators are now more likely to be found gathering dust at the back of a kitchen cabinet rather than bubbling away on an oven hot plate or gas hob.