http://www.squaremileblog.com Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:35:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're really sorry for the late notice on this one - but we didn't want to confirm until we knew we had coffee for it.  (Postmen world wide are our enemy!) Taste of Australia is happening this Wednesday - the 19th November, from around 6.30ish til people stagger wide-eyed and caffeinated ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/15/taste-of-australia-tickets/ Videocast #2 - French Press Technique from James Hoffmann on Vimeo. In this second videocast we look at simple ways to make a better French Press.  We love making coffees in the press these days - and high acidity coffees like the Muchoki and the Santa Rita Natural really shine brewed ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/12/videocast-2-french-press-technique/ We'd really appreciate your feedback on this one. We want to know which day of the week works best for you to attend one of our espresso Taste Of events (Australia next - tickets available soon!). You can choose more than one day - so select the ones that work ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/11/taste-of-preference-poll/ Just to let people know that we are now down to our last 10kg of the Finca Mauritania Cascara. (That's about 50 bags left) People's feedback has been great, and we are now working on getting some information on caffeine content and other information for future use. We're glad people around the world ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/10/10kg-left-of-the-cascara/ This is the first of hopefully many little videocasts.  Sometimes I will appear in them, or Stephen or maybe even Anette and sometimes not.  They won't all be very serious, but hopefully interesting.  The first one is just a quick overview of brewing the Cascara and an excuse to film ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/05/videocast-1-cascara/ First off apologies for taking so long to get this posted up! It has been very hectic at Square Mile HQ these last few weeks, but we're back blogging now! I didn't sleep particularly well after this event, and I guess from the amount of coffee consumed that evening - ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/05/taste-of-the-west-coast-usa/ The Finca Mauritania Cascara is now available in the shop! We're really excited by how good this tastes, and how interesting it is.  We think coffee, and its inherent flavours, makes a bit more sense after tasting this. We are looking forward to people's feedback on this one - but don't hesitate ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/11/01/cascara-now-available/ We sometimes forget that not everyone is signed up to the newsletter so we thought we ought to post links on here too for the new arrivals in the shop.  The response has been great, and we are totally in love with these coffees: (I shall summarise each in three words!) Autumn ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/10/15/those-new-arrivals/ Sadly this event has sold out even before we had the chance to promote it on the blog.  It went out in the newsletter (if you haven't signed up you should - the simple form is on the shop's front page at the bottom), and the response was pretty immediate. There ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/10/12/taste-of-the-west-coast-sold-out/ Along with all the amazing coffees that shipped from El Salvador was a few vac packs of something different from Finca Mauritania - Cascara! The Cascara is the dried outer fruit layer of the coffee cherry, typically considered either a waste product or sometimes used in compost.  However - if done ... http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/10/04/cascara-and-qishr/