This is incredible to watch, Martin Hudak at World Coffee In Good Spirits 2017.
Amazing attention to detail.
Geisha, to which he refers, is a coffee from Panama, one of the world’s highest rated coffees.
Geisha grows at high altitude, shaded by trees, as all the best coffees grow.
When it was discovered in Panama, the reaction of those who first tasted Geisha was that of discovering God in a cup.
I had the honour of meeting Martin Hudak at Union Summer Carnival last week, not only meeting but actually trying one of his cocktails, a cocktail made with Geisha.
I have always thought, using cold brew coffee to make cocktails, a waste of good coffee. Half of Cold Brew Coffee is padded out with recipes.
But having been served a cocktail by World Champion barista Martin Hudak, I have changed my mind.
Not only have I tried his cocktail, I have Geisha, the very same Geisha he won the World Championship with.
For more on Geisha and its almost mystical status, God in a Cup is an absolute must read.
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Jeremy Corbyn given the reception at Glastonbury that most performers could only dream of.
Mail has become a parody of itself.
A 4×4 is what you use to get around a farm. Not as posers use around Chelsea and Kensington.
No mention of course that Jeremy Corbyn travelled to Glastonbury by train as an ordinary passenger.
Express, another rabid rag, this time owned by a Dirty Des a pornographer, complained Jeremy Corbyn failed to support Armed Forces Day, not true, but then what is the truth when it is more important to run a Jeremy Corbyn smear campaign.
We support our armed forces not with jingoistic parades, but by providing them with the right equipment when we send them into conflict, by supporting when demobbed.
No mention by the BBC that Theresa May was booed when she attended Armed Forces Day in Liverpool.
Later Jeremy Corbyn was pulling pints at the Solstice Bar.
Times they are a changing, as Bob Dylan would have sung.
When Barista Lounge opened last year, massive teething problems, staff not up to scratch, massive staff turnover, coffee not good.
But far from improving, it goes from bad to worse.
The food is not good, the coffee undrinkable.
Falafel has to be freshly made, not sitting in a cabinet in a dried up wrap, then if you are lucky hotted up.
Bread has to be fresh, not sitting in a cabinet, so dried up, that almost breaks your teeth biting into it.
Over a period of several weeks, the soup has bene the same soup.
Wa are they doing, hotting up each day?
No exuse for the poor quality of the food when a kitchen out the back.
Last time I passed by, a new lad, never seen before. He was all on his own, not a clue what to do, had only started that day.
Time before, a guy who claimed he knew all about coffee. He was there again today. As glum as the staff in Costa who are only there cos it is better than McDonald’s.
No, he knows nothing about coffee, cappuccino served hot, with chocalate dumped on top. Two elementary mistakes no barista would make.
People claiming to be baristas who are not.
Poor quality coffee used, catering suppply coffee.
No excuse when there are many quality roasteries around.
Owner never seen. People keep asking for him.
From empty Barista Lounge to Krema which was full.
Easy to see why Barista Lounge always empty.
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Last Saturday in June, Farnham Carnival.
They should be ashamed of themselves for the food on offer. And no excuse when there is these days excellent street food available.
The same applies to the beer tent, output from an industrial chemical plant.
Low environmental standards. Why are they still allowing polystyrene burger boxes for food?
And why the disgusting ice cream vans, rubbish ice cream, engines left running, belching out toxic fumes at just the right height for toddlers to breathe in?
I contrast with the Street Food Picnic at Allen House Gardens last weekend in Guildford, spoilt for choice for quality street food. Or check out Godalming Food Festival next weekend.
Therefore a few suggestions
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One of those days when neither cool nor warm, depending upon how much sun manages to filter through the clouds.
Last Saturday in June, Farnham Carnival.
The majority of food stalls disgusting. And no excuse these days when there is good street food around.
Low environment standards too.
Polystyrene burger boxes should not be allowed.
The beer tent, output from an industrial chemical plant.
A coffee in Barista Lounge and a cake, £6-30. Bloody rip off. The cake probably bought in, the cappuccino disgusting.
Krema has sadly now jumped on the nitro cold brew bandwagon. I tried, not good. An overpriced fad.
I watched the parade. Not really worth staying for.
Too late to catch a bus, or so I thought, then a bus passed me as I walked to Farnham Station.
Now cold and raining.
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Another very warm day, though like yesterday, a cool start.
I thought last week The Village was dead. Today even worse. No one around, deserted. At least Kane FM with their moronic music blasting out has gone, but now the bar has moronic music blasting out.
Friday, The Village closes at 10pm. Come 5pm, most of the traders packing up, yet another wasted day.
Only three units worth a visit. Dylan’s ice cream, a fashion shop and a Greek shop.
I had hoped for moussaka. No moussaka. Catch 22. No customers, no moussaka. No moussaka, no customers.
There are posters around the town, but these are on rubbish bins necessary to bend down to read what they say. maybe for the dogs to read, as at their height.
Cappuccino in Harris + Hoole. No wifi. Now forced to use _TheCloud which is a Murdoch owned company. No way.
Tax dodging Cafe Nero who now own Harris + Hoole are inflicting death by a thousand cuts. Hole in toilet ceiling been like it for weeks, if not months. One of the chiller cabinets has been put of action for weeks, and yet still being used. Now, clients being forced to use wifi provided by Murdoch, which is not acceptable to have to provide personal data to Murdoch to access wifi.
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A detour to Lower Marsh to investigate a street food market I happened upon Love & Scandal.
Would I like to try a coffee?
Yes, but sorry no time, I am on my way to a coffee festival, Union Summer Carnival at Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, somewhere in Docklands, one of the top coffee roasters in the country.
Maybe later, If I have time.
On leaving Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, I decided I would return.
Too hot to sit outside, we sat outside discussing Cyprus, Turkey, the divided island and the Middle East. It turned out my host was a Turkish-Cypriot. Interesting to hear from the other side.
Eventually I got around to ordering falafel wrap, hummus and salad. Followed by a cappuccino.
The coffee used, a blend form Alchemy, Opus Espresso v 12. Like Pioneer from Horsham Coffee Roasters, the blend is seasonally adjusted to attempt to retain a similar flavour profile, cocoa, hazelnut, orange.
I had not heard of Alchemy, but speaking to a Greek barista at Union Summer Carnival, he said it was a highly regarded coffee roaster.
Only for the last couple of weeks, Love & Alchemy has been opening in the evening as a bistro.
Sadly I was the only one there.
On leaving sometime after ten o’clock, I was surprised to find a man with a van from Grimsby selling fresh fish.
Arriving at Waterloo Station, I noticed from the train a street market.
I decided to investigate.
Lower Marsh Market, a street food market, Thursday and Friday.
There is also to be summer market running into the evening.
Wandering through Lower Marsh, I happened upon Love & Scandal, a little coffee shop, but no time for a coffee, as now already running an hour late on my way to Union Summer Carnival, a day event at Union hand roasted in Docklands.
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