Scottish Aeropress Championships - Udpate

This is a lastly update earlier the Scottish Aeropress Championships on 21 Apr that volition select a winner to become to the World Aeropress Championships inwards Dublin, inwards June.

You tin larn tickets online here - or at the door - together with you're inwards for to a greater extent than or less sensory joy! Taste, smell, sound, sight together with feeling volition larn a run out.

As per our lastly article, the consequence starts at 6.30pm at the Dissection Room Summerhall together with has a really pose dorsum vibe. This video gives you lot a sense of what the consequence is striving for, albeit the actual contest measure volition live really high!

Tickets are yet available together with this is what you'll enjoy, surrounded past times the fantastic smells of high-end coffees:

• Sight & feeling - You'll live on tenterhooks every bit you lot sentry ii semi finals together with i terminal comprised of our finest baristas slinging their aeropress brews for world-class judges. Competitors volition practise their brews inwards 8 minutes - outset to complete - earlier judges betoken to the winners. It's all really pacey
• Sound - Live Music from Supermoon and Woodenbox
• Feeling - The Summerhall Bar volition assist you lot current of air downwards together with chill out
• Taste - Jones & Son Bespoke BBQ inwards the courtyard
• Taste - Steampunk Coffee van inwards the courtyard
• Taste - Twelve Triangles doughnuts
• Taste - Brew Lab Cold Brew
• Feeling - Get your retail therapy hitting at the Pop-up Coffee Store
• Feeling & taste - Edinburgh Coffee Lovers Brew Bar where you lot tin experience the dear chatting amongst to a greater extent than or less of Edinburgh together with Glasgow's finest java shop managers and roasters. These friendly folk volition paw out tasters of their delicious java together with other creations every bit follows:
  - 6.30-7pm Fortitude - Williams & Johnson (roaster)
  - 7.10-7.40pm - Cult Espresso -  Noir
  - 7.50-8.20pm - Lowdown - Ovenbird (roaster)
  - 8.30-9pm - Cairngorm - Mr Eion (roaster)
  - 9.10-9.40pm - Artisan Roast (roaster) - Papercup (roaster)

All inwards all, it'll live a corking night, promise to encounter you lot there!

Roots, Fruits & Flowers Kelvinbridge

451 Great Western Rd G12 8HH Glasgow »Map«

Open every day Espresso Coffee: Charlie Mills Also: Whole foods, meals, groceries

Coolness: Wholefoods to stimulate got abode - raw as well as ready to eat

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Roots, Fruits & Flowers (3♥) is a combination wholefoods, healthfoods, delicatessen, florist, fruit as well as vegetable store that's been a landmark inward Glasgow's West End for decades.

It has a grand as well as broad frontage amongst closed to create on display exterior the store - nether their iconic dark awnings amongst gilded type clearly spelling out their wares.

In the department of the store that has a large drinking glass deli counter, you'll last able to monastic say your java to stimulate got inward or stimulate got away - made amongst beans from local roaster Charlie Mills.

The deli counter displays a broad attain of nutrient to swallow inward or take-away including soup, olives & hummus, deli platters, grilled panini, savoury tarts, tortillas, salads as well as cakes.

The bulk of the large release of customers stimulate got yummy things home, only there's quite a fleck of seating available to eat-in, past times agency of large, chunky, high wooden tables as well as stools along the windows.

More: facebook.com/rootsfruitsandflowers/

Riverhill Java Bar

24 Gordon St G1 3PU Glasgow »Map«

Open every day Espresso, aeropress, clever dripper Coffee: Dear Green Also: Meals, cake, beans

Coolness: Fantastic array of mouth-watering cakes

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Riverhill Coffee Bar (3♥) is located inward Glasgow's metropolis centre together with shopping district together with offers high character food, primarily to induce got away.

They role Glasgow roaster Dear Green together with offering proficient espresso, aeropress together with clever dripper amongst beans chosen accordingly.

The venue is pocket-size - narrow amongst the servery running around of its length. But the owners pack a lot into that pocket-size infinite together with the service is rattling friendly together with efficient.

The start affair you'll run into when yous piece of job inward the store is a beautiful display of cakes of many types. It is actually rattling difficult to resist a lilliputian something to induce got amongst your coffee! Examples include night chocolate together with beetroot cake, caramelised banana together with strawberry jam frangipane while together with pistachio, orangish bloom together with night chocolate financier - amidst many others, piled upwards on a long wooden board looking similar a veritable cake-u-copia.

The nutrient is inventive, locally sourced together with rattling much the focus of Riverhill who also induce got a eating seat around the corner that faces on to West Nile Street (offering the sum suite of options for breakfast, lunch, dinner).

If you're lucky yous tin perch on ane of the few stools available exactly the vast bulk of customers watch their java together with a sandwich, salad or soup (or cake!) together with induce got it amongst them to devour elsewhere.

More: Riverhill Coffee Bar facebook

Luckie Beans - Leith Market

Dock Place EH6 6LU Edinburgh »Map«

4th Sabbatum of every month Aeropress, Cona Coffee: Luckie Beans Also: Beans!

Coolness: Watching the retro Cona java maker inward action

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Luckie Beans is a Berwick-based roaster owned as well as operated past times Jamie McLuckie. He pops-up at a release of markets inward Edinburgh as well as the Borders as well as sets upward his stall at Leith Markets on the terminal Sabbatum of every month.

You tin alternative upward either an aeropress or Cona coffee. In real basic terms, the aeropress method involves gently pressing compressed air against the Blue Planet java as well as hot water, through a newspaper filter (or sometimes micro fine metallic mesh) as well as into your cup. The Cona method relies on vacuum to transfer the H2O through the grounds to create the drink.

Jamie to a greater extent than oftentimes than non offers java (the drink) using his Love Lane House Blend, which combines darker roasted Brazilian as well as Indian beans amongst lighter roasted Kenyan as well as Guatemalan beans. He every bit good offers samples using unmarried origins from his broad make which includes java from Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, Colombia, Sumatra as well as a Brazilian decaf.

Leith Market stall holders sell local fresh veggies, cheeses, fish, meat, nutrient to consume on the spot as well as other make as well as hand-made products. They every bit good to a greater extent than oftentimes than non convey alive music which contributes to the relaxed atmosphere.

Jamie every bit good sells his Diedrich roasted beans online as well as via his Fountainbridge Fridays, Leith, Kelso as well as Peebles marketplace position stalls, as well as supplies a make of java shops inward Southern Scotland.

More: facebook.com/luckiebeans

Cult Espresso

104 Buccleuch St EH8 9NG »Map«

Open every day Espresso, Kalita wave Coffee: Round Hill & guests Also: Light meals, cakes

Coolness: Exposed brink industrial vibe with warmth

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Cult Espresso (5♥) is on the South Side of the Old Town, close Edinburgh University.

The friendly Cult folk characteristic invitee coffees amongst seasonal Round Hill Roastery beans together with pick out the correct edible bean for your brew method.

Cult offers espresso-based java together with Kalita Wave pour over coffee. For those less familiar with Kalita Wave, its a drip-filter java gizmo that has a apartment bottom that contributes to a to a greater extent than even, fuller brew.

The infinite itself is long together with narrow. The street frontage is quite pocket-size merely the store drops downwards nigh half-way through offering ample seating on 2 levels. The fit-out together with decor is warm spell having an industrial experience to it.

Brunch on the carte du jour ranges from granola together with porridge to poached eggs together with waffles. Lunches include sandwiches, soups together with quiche, all of which tin terminate hold upward followed upward with tempting cakes together with pastries.

Highly recommended!

More: facebook.com/pages/Cult-Espresso 

Mccune Smith Cafe & Shop

3-5 Duke St G31 1DL Glasgow »Map«

Mon-Sat Espresso, Aeropress, V60 Coffee: Dear Green & guests Also: Meals, cakes, snacks

Coolness: Sharing the honey of slavery abolitionist James McCune Smith

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McCune Smith Cafe & Shop (3♥) is at the East terminate of primal Glasgow, nigh the Strathclyde University campus.

It's a triple-fronted store with windows from the flooring to ceiling together with has local roaster Dear Green equally their work solid edible bean provider, amongst guests. You tin savour espresso based drinks equally good equally traditional old-school filter, aeropress together with V60.

The rationale behind the cafe's advert is outlined on the menu. James McCune Smith was a 19th century African-American physician, apothecary, slavery abolitionist, together with author. When he was denied admission to American universities due to his race, he applied together with was accepted yesteryear the University of Glasgow. Supported yesteryear the Scottish Enlightenment, he was the showtime African American to have a academy medical degree.

The subject continues throughout the bill of fare that includes enlightened sandwiches together with enlightened breakfast pots, many named afterwards other legendary activists together with thinkers. The friendly folk at this cafe brand all their ain nutrient which is wholesome, tasty together with varied. The Tobias Smollett enlightened sandwich is has boundary greenish pesto, cherry-red cabbage together with apple tree slaw & goats cheese. The Frances Wright is Kentucky ham, homemade sweetcorn taste & salad. They also create closed to big Sabbatum brunches including the 'McCune Smith': scrambled eggs, Connage Dairy gouda together with sliced pastrami on toasted rye together with Mexican eggs: scrambled eggs with jalapeno, tomato, cheddar together with toasted tortillas, amongst the commons favourites. The home-baked cakes are super together with they also lead maintain salads, soups together with regularly changing specials.

The decor is unproblematic together with elegant with a mix of high stools, soft benches, chairs together with tables. The high ceilings together with massive windows arrive a really pleasant infinite to be.

After leaving Scotland together with returning to the USA McCune Smith went on to accomplish amazing (and courageous) things inward his relatively curt life precisely was rapidly forgotten yesteryear his ain household unit of measurement who didn't verbalize virtually him due to racial prejudices.

All inward all this cafe is a winner. And nosotros totally honey the profile they're giving Dr McCune Smith because he then deserves to live on remembered.

More: facebook.com/McCuneSmithCafeGlasgow

Grams

sixteen Haymarket Terrace EH12 5JZ Edinburgh »Map«

Everyday Espresso Coffee: Williams & Johnson Also: Healthy fast nutrient & cakes

Coolness: Top notch well for you lot nutrient & raw, vegan, gluten-free cakes that are oft gluten-free amazing (try the snickers bar!)

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Grams (3♥) is a breakfast as well as tiffin cafe rattling nigh Edinburgh's Haymarket station that does splendid coffee.

Grams serves Edinburgh's Williams as well as Johnson's unmarried origin, seasonally changing java as well as create a fine espresso-based brew. Relative new-comers Williams as well as Johnson are based inwards the Biscuit Factory inwards Leith as well as depict on previous sense including working at Melbourne's Market Lane java roaster.

Apart from lovely coffee, Grams' big differentiator is their affordable, health-conscious food. Owner Lewis creates his card based on whole ingredients as well as avoiding carbohydrate as well as processed food. That is, he starts alongside raw ingredients as well as processes them every bit trivial every bit possible as well as then all the nutritional value (and flavour) is retained.

While everyone volition honor rattling tasty nutrient at Grams, people chasing specific dietary needs volition honor to a greater extent than joy at Grams than some other cafes. Vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free folk as well as avoiders of carbohydrate as well as dairy volition cause got their needs met - including almond as well as kokosnoot milk coffees.

The card includes bacon rolls, poached eggs & avocado, smoothie bowls, super salads (such every bit chicken aioli, chipotle salmon, sweetness murphy as well as vegan 'pulled pork'), baked sweetness potatoes, soups as well as sandwiches.

The cakes card deserves it's ain cite every bit they're industrial plant of art. Without the role of sugar, dairy or cooking, you lot tin select from slices of cheescake, a raw 'snickers bar' as well as a host of other delights that gustation neat only are nevertheless expert for you lot (in moderation of course!). Grams also provides their cakes to other cafes as well as tin oft move seen at farmers markets including the Stockbridge marketplace on Sundays.

You tin swallow inwards at a mix of tables, chairs as well as stools or take-away for work, uni, picnic etc. For those who alive or function nearby - Grams is an absolute break-through from a java indicate of view, as well as they opened upwards early!

More: facebook.com/gramsedinburgh