O.K, here goes...
I am totally new to blogging and find the prospect of starting a blog terrifying..what do you write to introduce yourself and what if no one is interested in what you want to say?
There is only one way to find out...
For the past year I have been tasting as many different coffees as I can find. I don't mean coffee from supermarkets, I mean the real thing.
The first thing that struck me was that I didn't want to buy 250g bags of the different coffees on the Internet..what if I didn't like it? So, after some thought, I decided to start a coffee tasting club, so that other like minded people could come on the journey with me. And that, in a nutshell, is what I have been doing for the past year. Each month, we try four different single estate coffees. The coffees are sent out in smallish quantities with a newsleter I write, having found out as much as possible about the estates the coffees come from.
It has been truely amazing... we have tried coffees from over 23 countries...you can't get that in a supermarket! One of my favourites came from Nepal and I would never have realised coffee even grew in Nepal! Perhaps the most suprising thing about all of this is that until two years ago, I never drank coffee...didn't like it at all. I know why now...I was drinking such dross that I had never tasted coffee as it should be and that is what I want to share with people...proper, real, fresh and totally amazing coffee!!!!!!
Of course, coffee comes at a huge price to the people that pick it. I will write more about that another time, but I buy coffee from some fantastic micro roasters, who in turn buy their coffee from an ethical importer (more later). I also send a percentage of all profits to Coffee Kids, a hugely worthwhile Charity, that helps the families that are involved in the production of coffee in many different ways.
Anyway, I will add more soon, but will nervously wait and see if anyone has read this..as I said, I am a total novice. Thank you, if you have got this far.