99 Station Street

We are going to be asking some of the great people who supply 99 Station Street to share with us some of the unique story of their produce. First in the line up will be Steve Leighton who owns Hasbean near Stafford. Steve created our house blend for us on a Saturday morning over two years ago. We spent the morning with him going over various beans, smelling, tasting, cappucinos and espressos. Eventually we came up with a blend that we all liked and worked with the local water.

www.hasbean.co.uk

But first a cautionary tale about coffee:

“Like all good things in life, the drinking of coffee may be abused.
Indeed, those having an idiosyncratic susceptibility to alkaloids should
be temperate in the use of tea, coffee, or cocoa. In every
high-tensioned country there is likely to be a small number of people
who, because of certain individual characteristics, can not drink coffee
at all. These belong to the abnormal minority of the human family. Some
people can not eat strawberries; but that would not be a valid reason
for a general condemnation of strawberries. One may be poisoned, says
Thomas A. Edison, from too much food. Horace Fletcher was certain that
over-feeding causes all our ills. Over-indulgence in meat is likely to
spell trouble for the strongest of us. Coffee is, perhaps, less often
abused than wrongly accused. It all depends. A little more tolerance!”

All About Coffee, by William H. Ukers, 1922