Grower's Cup

Image via www.growerscup.com

What I really love about geeks is the fact that they love to share the passion...for coffee;) This one was flagged up to me by my son's Aikido teacher who happens to work in IT (so I can officially call him a geek;)). Grower's Cup is a practical take on brewing coffee on the go. I love the idea specially that I hate plastic cups and from what I see the carbon footprint of this packaging is fairly low:

The Coffeebrewer clearly uses more packaging material per cup of coffee than most other coffee solutions. However, we DO NOT use any aluminium. The pouch is made from 7.7 g PE, 1.6 g PET and 6.8 g paper coming from reforested Swedish woods. PE consists of coal (C) and hydrogen (H₂), which are naturally a part of our environment and therefore they are not harmful to the environment.

This is the design in more detail:

And here you can see how it works in action:

Grower's Cup from GrowersCup on Vimeo.

I am happy to say that the cost of half a liter of this type of coffee (£2,5 per sachet) equals a good coffee at Starbucks so it's not so bad;) I see from their Facebook page that the company is trying to build their market so I hope it will be available in many regions, but for now here in the UK you can get in in many locations and on-line too. I will try it out and let you know more about it! 

What to do with bad coffee beans?

Pinstagram is full of ideas and some of them show lovely candleholders so I figured I could make one too!;) I have so much to tell you and no time to post here at all! I will do my best to find it shortly! Have a good weekend!

Here is why we can enjoy so many types of coffee!

What I really like about blogging is the fact that once you start posting about a particular topic your friends pick it up and feed you with really interesting ideas! Here is one for example - did you know that is it down to one particular scholar that we can enjoy so many types of coffee - and other food and drink products for that matter? Maybe today we do not realise it - actually tend to feel overwhelmed by the variety of particular products - but not so long time ago our purchasing decisions and choices were based on completely wrong assumptions. Watch this video till the very end to understand what I mean and remember - "we do not always say what we really want"!