Drip City owner addresses the age old question "are single origin coffees better than blends?"

As a barista with more than 1 year of experience, I can safely say that I'm amongst the foremost experts on specialty coffee in Singapore and my highly educated informed opinions are taken seriously by my fellow professionals. So when I say we're all royally fucked and should take the threat of robot baristas seriously, I'm sure everyone in the industry will sit up, take notice and appropriately shit their collective beds. We've seen a couple of coffee concepts built around the idea of automated pop up around the island ranging from the trash (Crown? Ella? Whatever they're called now) to the decent (Ratio at ION Orchard). " But as an experienced specialty barista, I have an acute developed palate that...

"F**k the world, don't ask me for shitAnd everything you get ya gotta work hard for it" - Christopher Wallace, 1994 We live in bountiful times; the specialty coffee movement in Singapore is experiencing a renaissance where a new spot opens up every 3 weeks that's ether led or owned by experienced roasters and baristas who've cut their teeth at pioneering third wave cafés since the late noughties & early 2010s. For a consumer market as dynamically fickle as Singapore, this presents an interesting challenge for coffee professionals when articulating a vision around a product that's perceived to be highly commoditized. Given the circumstances, it's tempting to revert to abhorrent gimmicks like serving a pourover kopi luwak or succumbing to market...

we recently dropped our retail beans for purchase and I know all y’all be thinking  ”how do i get my coffee to taste like the ones i had in Geylang?” the dick-ish answer is you can’t because Geylang water is made different my homies. half kidding! but it don’t mean you can’t get close though. we’ve put together a brew guide below for all of y’all out there but remember the fun is in the experimentation so feel free to play around with the different variables to get the best cup you can get at home. we recommend the following general setup: Brewer type: Conical Brewer type: Cafec Flower Dripper (1 cup) Recommended Grind size: Medium Fine Brewing ratio: 13 grams...

Drip City owner geeks out over Succession and coffee and gives uneducated opinions on both.