I’ve been waiting for a good reason to do so, but now that my beans are gone, I ordered a couple of small 8-12oz sample orders from Amavida in Miami.
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Running out of beans
After having finished the amazing reserves of coffee beans I’ve had brought to me by visitors, the sad time arrives when they run out… This happened last week so now I am resorting once again to supermarket coffee from St Maarten. “Which coffee do you drink?” is a question I get asked regularly. Well, I […]
Caribbean Coffee Culture
Coffee culture is fascinating. Different in Puerto Rico from St Maarten in many ways but essence is the same, that’s my conclusion after aspending 2 weeks in and around San Juan. They favor more bitter cups of coffee in the Caribbean, IMHO. Dark roasted (French or Italian) blends of Latin American beans, some strengthened with Robusta […]
Barista Christian Peper on island92 radio
I had an interview with the famous Dr Soc of island92 radio last Monday. We talked about coffee in general and what you can do on the island of St Maarten make a better “cup ‘o joe” in the morning. Summary: No matter what ground coffee you are using on Sint Maarten, use a filter […]
Going separate ways
Sadly, Market Garden, the Double Dutch Café and No Pressure Coffee will be going their separate ways as of today. It’s really difficult establishing specialty coffee standards in an area that still consumes large amounts of instant coffee, that was already known when we started our cooperation in March. But it has proven increasingly more […]
Technical troubles on a tropical island
At work, our espresso machine broke down. The pump giving the 9 bars of pressure for the groups won’t start. But when manual flushing it works fine. Local coffee machine supplier Autobev says it’s the circuit boards. My guess is they were fried by a couple of successive power outages and a generator that did […]
Comparing different coffee bean suppliers in the Caribbean
Besides setting up a new espresso machine, I cannot think of anything more exciting for a barista than to sample and taste different coffee beans. Especially if they’re also from different suppliers. So far I’ve been able to try a single origin Ethiopian Sidamo and Rwandan bean from Malongo, a French roaster in France with […]
Double Dutch Café enriches Market Garden supermarket
Daily Herald of Sint Maarten features a new article that explores the supermarket Market Garden in Simpson Bay. The store management has created a whole range of healthy ready to eat products around the Double Dutch Café where Christian Peper from No Pressure Coffee is Head Barista. The cafe provides a low threshold factor to […]
Sourcing coffee beans, next stage
The next stage in choosing a coffee roaster in the US for Double Dutch Café
Daily Herald features Christian Peper in Weekender
The weekender section of today’s Daily Herald has a great article about head barista Christian Peper (from No Pressure Coffee) and Third Wave Coffee as well as the direction and intention of the coffee served daily in the Double Dutch Café inside the Market Garden supermarket in Simpson Bay. It’s all about making the best […]
