Coffee tasting Kiwi style
We’re about to embark on a trip ‘home’* and will be sampling numerous coffee offerings in New Zealand.
New Zealand Cafe’s have an ambiance that is very hard to replicate. Kiwi’s (the name for the locals) have a penchant for coffee and use the cafe as a meeting place, an office, for family time together and as a place to be seen.
New Zealand Cafe’s serve Flat Whites, a drink not often found in other parts of the world, but cleverly replicated in London by Cam and his team at Flat White.
There is an amazing range of local coffee roasters, with coffee sourced from all over the world. Each roaster operates to a different taste profile and green beans given to 2 or more roasters can be sent back with wildly varying characteristics.
Locally produced food features highly and almost all cafe’s serve a range of hot and cold food to accompany their beverages.
Having trained as a barista in New Zealand in 2001 I am keen to see how the coffee industry has evolved over the past few years and I am sure to pick up new techniques to apply here in the UK as well.
* home for the first 25 and a bit years of my life – but now the UK is home
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