7 tips that will change the way you brew coffee at home Do you want to know how to brew better coffee at home? There are a few techniques that can immediately improve the quality of your coffee. Whether you have your first coffee machine or you have splashed out, these tips will help improve […]

Quick monthly updates on our activities at Pollards in July 2018. July Updates Ecclesall Road Our lovely Rachel was on holiday this month celebrating her big birthday in Italy. While she was away we had a brief stint of staff cover needed over at the retail shop on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield. Tracy (our barista trainer) […]

Welcome back to our updates blog for June 2018. We hope you are enjoying the new monthly blog on our Pollards news and the latest news in the coffee industry. If you missed last months coffee news blog then you can catch up here.   June 2018 This month has been a whirlwind already. New […]

Last time in our blog series we looked at how long coffee lasts. Because coffee is a perishable good, it does go stale over time. So the next question is, what use can stale or leftover coffee be? The UK is becoming increasingly zero-waste and this blog (and others we have done before) can help you […]

Cold Brew The summer drink that is taking over the UK. Cold Brew is a fantastic coffee drink, which is simple and easy to make. This blog post is your one stop shop for instructions on making great Pollards Cold Brew at home. This drink can easily be scaled up if you own your own […]

Our customers often ask us questions such as:  “how long do coffee beans last?” or “do coffee beans expire?”. Questions like this are tricky to answer, the term – fresh – probably applies more. When it comes to coffee we think freshness differs from expiration. This is because coffee is volatile and continuously changing. To […]