Canvas coffee appreciation

I love coffee. Canvas loves coffee. I love canvas. What better way to spread the love than by having a Coffee Appreciation morning. Sunday consisted of a trip down to Canvas with Jas to enjoy the delicacies of quality coffee, learn and appreciate flavour profiles and tasting methods and gorge on delicious French pastries. The morning was run by the man responsible for Canvas’ house blend – Brandon (name?). He’s a coffee guru who is more than willing to share his knowledge about coffee, beans and the industry. What a privilege it was to enjoy some coffee and pastries with a group of like-minded individuals in such a cool venue.

Coffee ground and sitting in filter paper ready for water.

Brandon was explaining that the flavour profile for coffee is best tasted neat. It is important to get the dose and water levels right prior to tasting – otherwise flavours may be too concentrated or too “watered down”. It was interesting to taste the coffee filtered, as I normally only drink latte or espresso. Adding milk, he was saying, will mask a light bodied coffee and make it more difficult to detect the subtleties of the coffee flavour profile. It is important however, to try the milk version before buying, it that is how you would generally consume the coffee.

Water added – start the timer!

Just because this is filtered, doesn’t mean that there isn’t the same science involved. Brewing times are still important – but once the brew was over, it was time to filter the coffee.

Sitting this magic filter jug on top of a pot made the coffee drain from the bottom through the filter. It was awesome to watch and now I want one.

Here’s Brandon sharing his information on the drying process…

Did I mention delicious pastries!

And another coffee to be filtered… both were very different but equally delicious. Actually – the second one was a bit stronger and more to my liking.

Here’s Jas in the beautiful light that filters in through Canvas’ facade.

We took some of the house blend home to try on our machine. Dark City will have to have a bit of time off… I’ll report back with how I find the Canvas House Blend.

What a cool surprise – Shida has put up some art on the side of Canvas. I <3 art.

Not something you see everyday – little different to the usual school shoes or joggers…

Have a good day – go check out Canvas (Facebook Beanhunter What’s on @ Canvas)

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