Due to the UK coffee week commencing on the 23rd April 2012 we are supporting this by giving away some of our finest ingredients. We shall be giving away our Fiera Fairtrade Coffee Beans 6 x 1kg bags to the lucky prize winner. This coffee is a blend of Tanzanian and South American fairtrade beans roasted to give a rounded [...]

Here at Coffechino we like to provide you with a large range of ingredients for your drinks machines or business, so that you can give the highest quality products to your customers. Our coffee beans are sourced globally to give you the best taste and variety possible.  We have traditional espresso richezza coffee beans, blended with beans from South America [...]

Beautiful Cups and Saucers for the Perfect Espresso For those people that enjoy a carefully made cup of espresso they will know that it is really important to have an authentic cup from which to drink the strong coffee.  Espresso cups are those little coffee cups that can be anything from plain porcelain to more ornate designs.  The cup makes [...]

For all our customers and readers we hope to provide interesting and useful information about all things coffee.  There is a coffee making accessory that is sometimes overlooked by espresso drinkers and it is an accessory that will make all the difference to a strong, ground coffee espresso and that accessory is the coffee Tamper.

It is quite obvious that many of us nowadays love a cup of good coffee.  There is an abundance of brands, flavours and strengths including gorgeous ‘bean to cup’ coffees, ground coffees and eco-coffees such as Rainforest and Fair Trade.  There is nothing like a cup of coffee first thing in a morning to give you that ‘spring in your [...]

There is a plethora of research available regarding coffee and its benefits, with much suggesting coffee drinkers have reduced risk of stroke, heart disease, diabetes and there is of course a main theme that coffee has motivational properties too – but now researchers at the National Cancer Institute have released results of a study that concentrated on the health benefits [...]

We are great believers in the ethics that underpin both the Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade Coffees.  Many people these days are looking at ways to make their life greener and eco-friendly.  It is difficult to in today’s climate to ensure however that the coffee we drink is eco-friendly – but Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance have gone some way to make [...]

There is a lot of evidence that Britain is a tea drinking nation – in a recent survey by Waitrose the results showed that the British love ‘Builders Tea’ – but commentators have gone on to say that the Brits love their tea in their own homes.  Waitrose also commented that in the home using a teabag is still the [...]

Now we are called Coffechino but that by no means we are not huge promoters of tea. Tea drinking is a traditional ceremony, steeped in history and an art to tea making that is compounded with differing ideas.  Making a perfect cup of tea follows a simple process but it is the accessories and order of those processes that are [...]

New research from Dr Neil Caporaso and others suggests that addiction to coffee may be in the genes. The research splits coffee drinkers into two groups; the ‘high consumption’ gene coffee drinkers and the ‘low consumption’ gene coffee drinkers. Caporaso reports that genetics have an immense influence over an individual’s behaviours – resulting in whether a person will be a [...]