Christmas coffee haul

So we’ve had the Christmas beer haul thread  I thought a few of my fellow coffee bores would appreciate this one. If you are Nescafé only, fair play – but kindly move along – nothing to see here. So what coffee or coffee kit did Santa bring?

Some of this was in already, and some were gifts, but I have

Pact ‘bourbon cream espresso’

Pact ‘tutti frutti espresso’

Iron & Fire ‘Columbian jazz’ (coffee not marching powder)

Iron & Fire decaf

100 house (Ludlow roaster) ‘Christmas blend’

Bristol Radical Roasters ‘wild thing’

Neighbourhood (Liverpool roaster) ‘Roast wonderful time of the year’.

I also got a new Hario V60 drip decanter and my lad who is with us got an Aeropress Go.

A merry caffeine fuelled Christmas to the STW coffee botherers!

Finished my Pact advent calendar this morning, no coffee under the tree but daughter and a mate both got me mugs, kids got MrsMC a new travel mug, and I got her a coffee container and scoop to go with the second hand Sage grinder that was our joint present to each other.

I’ve just made her an aeropress coffee from the beans she bought in Austria to test her new travel mug, and I think she’s now ready to cope with the imminent arrival of my parents….

I’ve got a Truth subscription. No idea anything about it, time to learn.

No coffee but Santa did bring a Silvia X pro and a Stile grinder. Grind is ust about right and I’m fully caffeinated

Just one Horsham single origin for me, will be a couple of weeks till I get to it in the queue. Looks like you’ll have a lot of options tomorrow morning blokeuptheroad! Try not to open them all at once.

That’s a lot of coffee to get through.  You’re going to lose some freshness whilst you do unless you prepare for HYPER January.

I’ve got a load of coffee drinking family here for the next week. We are making big inroads already (espresso martinis right now)! I’ll be pretty strict about using them in order, some are a bit too fresh so are ‘resting’.  some will be frozen. Nothing will be wasted!

Four small bags from Monmouth. They are local to work. So Ecuadorian, Colombian and their espresso roast. Beat coffee in London.

Mrs Explorerboy got me 4 250g bags from Bella Barista, our local coffee roaster in Northamptonshire.

should be enough to get me through Jan – looking forward to trying them all!

Mrs Explorerboy got me 4 250g bags from Bella Barista, our local coffee roaster in Northamptonshire.

I bought my espresso machine from Bella Barista. Some of their coffee came with it. It was really good, I keep meaning to try some more.

I got some of the James Hoffman ‘decaf project’ beans from my sis. The same beans decaffeinated three different ways, plus the same beans again regular caffeinated. Should be a fun tasting experiment 🙂

A kilo of Madagascan and a kilo of Indian Monsoon from Pollards, never go there in a rush.

I got a bag of Guinness Espresso beans….. Who knew!!