October 10, 2018
Food and drinks around the world are gaining stickers, labels and little stamps for all sorts of things nowadays; whether it be health reasons, not tested on animals or one of many other reasons. Not all of these things are important or can lead to a benefit for the product, humanity or the planet, however, there are three terms that get associated with coffee that we think are important and worth understanding. These are: Fair Trade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance Certified. Here we’re going to give each of these a little break down so that when you next see them you know why they’re important to your cup of coffee and the world near and far.
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August 15, 2018
The flavour of coffee, like wine, is affected by the soil, altitude and climate that it is grown in. Also, like wines grapes, the variety of bean used to brew coffees also contribute a lot to the flavours of your cup. Where coffee and wine differ here is that there are thousands of varieties of wine grapes and many different varieties have dedicated followings. With coffee, however, we don’t have this variation in the beans and you might be surprised to hear that there are only two types of beans that we use to produce most the worlds third most popular beverage; arabica and robusta. We are not saying these are the only varieties of coffee bean but they are the only ones used to produce coffee.
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July 23, 2018
Our fourth and newest single origin, Blue Batak, is still warm from its roasting so -being high on the fumes of freshly roasted coffee- we thought we’d take a minute to tell you about it. It won’t be available until the 5th of August, but we’re so excited about its uniqueness that we wanted to spill the bean; pun intended ;)
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July 18, 2018
As people have with beer, as people have with everything, they do with coffee. Exclusive, strange and just goddam weird is what we’ll call some of the coffee’s that we’ve found on the internet. They may not all be beans but they’re definitely all meant for drinking, and for the good humour so you can laugh and contort your face along with us we thought we’d share them with you. What do baristas think about in their downtime? We think some of these square pegs may fit into that round hole.
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June 01, 2018
Our new single origin coffee has arrived, we’re almost done with roasting it and it’ll be ready for you very shortly, definitely in time for work next Monday morning. So, we thought we’d tell you about it before the work week starts so you have something to really look forward to on that Monday morning!! This time we’ve gone over to South America and chosen a bean from the word famous coffee growing country of Colombia. Let's have a look shall we.
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May 23, 2018
Small-batch roasted coffee is what we offer here at Tumut River Roasters and recently we’ve been asked why small-batch roasted is such a key term for us when we promote our coffee. So we thought we’d answer that question with a short article explaining our choices.
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April 25, 2018
Guatemala is known to produce some of the best coffee in the world and we are proud to offer a Guatemalan coffee as our first Single Origin Coffee out of the new Tumut River Roasters down here at Tumut River Brewing! Because of this, we thought you, our loving general public, would want to know more about growing coffee in Guatemala. This article is a little nerdy and if you want to get a map out so that you can really plot these on it we suggest you go full on and do it!
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April 12, 2018
We know that over the last month you guys have been enjoying our single origin coffee from Guatemala, but now we’re running low (so come and get one of your last cups or bag quickly!). No need to worry though! as promised beforehand we’ve found our second ever single origin to replace it. Want to know what it is? Read on!!
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March 28, 2018
The worlds third most popular beverage is going through a little bit of a bumpy patch, and it has been for a while. Whilst new ways of brewing and serving this beautiful, energising drink are emerging there are things going on in the background that consumers are not entirely aware of, and probably won’t find out about until it’s getting too late. Before we put a dampener on your morning cup-o-joe, don’t worry! Coffee isn’t going to suddenly become a scarce commodity so you don’t have to begin hoarding it like a capitalist coveting money.
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March 07, 2018
You may or may not have seen a photo of our new Tumut River Roasters logo floating around our social media channels recently. We're not coming on here to tell you that that's wrong, to the contrary we're coming on here to show it to you again!
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