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The UK’s largest coffee focussed trade and consumer show was back; this year we were using the show as a platform to launch the Grumpy Mule re-brand. The festival was bigger and busier than ever, attracting over 23,642 visitors.
We’ve exhibited at London Coffee Festival for the past few years, but this year we bought something entirely new. The 2015 festival was where we unveiled the brand new Grumpy Mule look!
England’s World Cup performance may make you balk at my mention of Brazil, so I’ll steer clear of any references to that well-loved sport and stick to talking about the thoroughly enjoyable trip that Paul and I made to origin last month. As I said in my blog entry last week, we were incredibly interested to see the impact that the speciality coffee market is having on coffee growers in the region.
No, not a World Cup report (although I’m very happy to sit and chat about that), but rather a quick look back at our trip to this wonderful country in May.
I’ve been helping out recently with the Street Piano project for the Homfirth Arts Festival, which has been both fun and very intriguing! The Fair Traders Co-operative has been instrumental in finding old pianos from the local area that can be jazzed up ready for the Festival itself, taking place in June. There’ll be lots going on during those few weeks to keep locals and visitors interested.
Last night the Grumpy Mule Team joined Tamper Coffee – Sheffield’s finest coffee shop – for a customer tasting evening. Tamper use Boutique for their in house espresso, plus a guest which at present is the Colombia Gaitania from the Tolima region. The event proved a great success which is credit to Jonathan for creating such an immediate buzz around Tamper after less than 6 months of opening. His knowledge and experience of New Zealand’s coffee scene and his focus on quality and community are integral in this, and also the reason why coffee enthusiasts from outside Sheffield are making the journey to find it.
It was a pleasure to meet Chris and Karola at the Tamper coffee evening last night, coffee and cafe entusiasts who’ve developed the London Thru Cafes website and app.
