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One of the things we pride ourselves on here at Spiller & Tait is the knowledge that we’re able to pass on to our community. We’ve answered hundreds of questions over the years and are always happy to help if anyone reaches out to us.

After a busy Christmas and a good start to the new year we’ve decided to go back to basics and cover all of the aspects to enjoying fresh coffee in one article. There are many simple yet effective tips for improving the quality of your coffee. 

Lots of people are quick to jump to the assumption that decaf coffee is inferior, and tastes nothing like ‘real’ coffee. As you read this you may also agree that decaf is totally different but we can bet the majority of people who say this either haven't actually tried a good decaf coffee or have only tried very few. It's just one of those conceptions that has been around for years.

To understand why decaf may taste different, we first need to understand what decaf coffee actually is.

Achieving the perfect cup of coffee is as much about smell as it is about the mouth taste, the water temperature and the brewing method. 

When something ‘tastes’ great, like that first sip of coffee in the morning, there’s so much more going on than the flavour on your tongue.  The aroma of our coffee is everything.  In fact, as much as 80% of what we ‘taste’ is actually what we’re smelling.  We can smell through both the nose and the mouth.