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Defend Against Dementors with Gordon Street Coffee

Defend Against Dementors with Gordon Street Coffee

Are you ready to take a spellbinding journey into the wizarding world this Halloween? As the spooky season approaches, it's time to arm yourself ag...

A Nightmare On Gordon Street…

Halloween, the time of year when ghosts and ghouls come out to play, is just around the corner. What better way to celebrate this mystical holiday ...

Pup Cups at GSC

They say dogs are a man’s best friend (with Gordon Street Coffee being a strong contender for second place) and who are we to argue? We adore our f...

Introducing Our Italian Rich Roast

We have been hard at work here at Gordon Street Coffee perfecting our new and very exciting – Italian Rich Roast.

Arabica vs Robusta Coffee beans

Arabica and Robusta are the two main species of coffee beans that are used to produce the vast majority of coffee in the world. Arabica beans are g...

Summer is the perfect time for a Cold Brew at Gordon St Coffee

Cold Brew Coffee

Brewing coffee using a cafetiere.

To make coffee with a cafetiere, also known as a French press, you will need the following ingredients and equipment... coarsely ground coffee bea...

Why does GSC roast coffee manually by sight and sound?

When we first opened we wanted to do things a little differently and roast coffee that we could be proud of so we decided that we wouldn't go d...

A little about Diedre, our Diedrich Coffee Roaster

A Diedrich coffee roaster is a highly specialized machine that is used to roast coffee beans to a specific level of roast. It is an essential piece...

Choosing Your Grind

The biggest factor in the extraction process (the pulling of flavours from coffee using water) is GRIND SIZE. When the grind is too coarse, water ...

Benefits to small batch coffee roasting

We are often asked why we shop roast in small, 5kg batches, so here are a few of the reasons why... 1: Quality control: Roasting small batches allo...

Health Benefits of coffee

There are loads of facts and figures around regarding the health benefits of coffee so we’ve done a little research online. We’re obviously not sci...

Veganuary tips from GSC

It's 2023 and the team at GSC, like everyone else, are trying to be good so we’ve pulled together a few pointers to get you through Veganuary, so y...