Coffey & Cake

Your guide to great coffee

Mandela Day Coffee Challenge

I am extremely excited to share this Mandela Day Coffee Challenge blog post with you, as it includes two of my favourite aspects of life… generosity and coffee. As many of us know the 18th of July is Mandela Day and each year we are encouraged to spend 67 minutes giving back or making a difference generously. This year a few of the coffee shops around Durban, Upper Highway and PMB have hopped on board with Ingane Yami Children’s Village to make a difference throughout the month of July.

Mandela Day Coffee Challenge

Yes you read right; for the whole of July, when you buy a coffee at one of these coffee shops, 67c of the cost will be donated to Ingane Yami as part of the Mandela Day Coffee Challenge.

The coffee shops to get to are…

Upper Highway
Lineage, Hillcrest & Waterfall
Jooma, Kloof
Caffe Mobile, Shongweni Farmers Market
Sprigs, Kloof
Sam’s Cafe, Kloof
Bellevue, Kloof
Stretta, Hillcrest
Oscars, Hillcrest
Juice Kitchen, Hillcrest
Go Coffee Café, Assagay
I Love my Coffee, Kloof
Assagay Coffee, Cato Ridge/Inchange
Curro HCA School, Hillcrest
Market Cafe, Hillcrest
Highbury School, Hillcrest

Durban: 
Jacksonville
The Boiler Room

Durban north:
Zucca
Colombo (July 18 only)

PMB:
Empire Coffee

Mandela Day Coffee Challenge

Mandela Day Coffee Challenge

How awesome is that! Come on KZN, let’s support this generously and make a difference to the lives of the children at Ingane Yami. This is our challenge for the month of July, not just Mandela Day. Get yourself a coffee at one of the above coffee shops and you’ll be supporting a great cause.

Mandela Day Coffee Challenge

A bit more info about Ingani Yami

Ingane Yami Children’s Village is just over the hill, in Shongweni, and has a powerful impact by rescuing and restoring the lives of previously orphaned and abandoned children. Ingane Yami is bringing change right on our door steps.

For more information about Ingane Yami have a look at their website: www.inganeyami.com. To enquire more about this initiative, you can contact Patricia Deacon on tricia@inganeyami.com.

The Pregnant Coffee Blogger

The news is out, this coffee blogger is pregnant. After 16 weeks I am once again able to indulge in warm beverages. Not regularly, however up until now all I have been able to drink is cold water, milk and actually just anything cold and refreshing. Not the ideal situation for a coffee blogger but I always knew it would be a difficult one with all the caffeine warnings out there for pregnant women.

baby rowneyIllustration by Paige Bates

So I had to do the research because as some of you know, I am going to Australia to visit a bunch of coffee shops in June! Yes the pregnant coffee blogger is doing a coffee tour down under. LUCKILY my husband is as big (if not bigger) a coffee nerd as I am. So regulation is decaf or no more than 1 cup of coffee a day. Some espresso has a higher dose of caffeine than others so we’ll be ordering one to share wherever we go so I can get the tastes in at all the great coffee shops we’ll visit.

I’d love to hear from the coffee lovers out there who have experienced pregnancy and the joys of cutting down on coffee. Any tips?

I must admit I am not one who HAS to have a coffee first thing in the morning. I actually rarely drink coffee at home. I like to save the experience for a good coffee shop so I can really enjoy it and share that experience with my readers.

So the next 6 months should be great fun as we count down to meeting our little coffee bean. I’ll be documenting our Australia trip on Instagram so make sure you’re following me @pipsrowney and when I return I will have SO many awesome spots to share on my blog and coffee map. I cannot wait.

Saturday Morning Coffee

I just love waking up on a Saturday morning to a good cup of coffee. This morning we were spoilt for choice with two amazing coffees from Colombo Coffee, a Ugandan Sipi Falls and a Guatemalan Finca El Coyegual. Paul made himself a pour over earlier using the Finca, and I was more in the mood to try the Finca through an Aeropress.

This is how we made it…

Colombo Coffee Beans

Add 20grams of ground coffee (table salt grind) to the Aeropress chamber

Add 40g of boiled water and stir for 35 seconds

Add boiled water, up to a ratio of 1:11 (1 part coffee to 11 parts water = 2og coffee to 220g water)

Leave for 1 minute then continue by pressing the Aeropress plunger down through the chamber.

Easy as that! You can drink it black and really experience the fruity flavour as you sip, thereafter leaving your mouth with a chocolate taste. You can also add milk (full cream for a sweeter/creamier taste).

*Excuse the Thai stubby cooler over our Aeropress chamber. It apparently adds insulation so Paul is trying it out.*

Aeropress Coffee

 

Saturday Morning Coffee

How do you enjoy your Saturday morning coffee? Share your recipes in the comments below.
If you want to learn more about home brewing and home brew methods here is a great collection of methods by Stumptown.

Coffee shops to visit in 2016

2016 is here and we cannot wait for the adventure that awaits, the many coffee shops to visit in 2016! We are in the process of planning a coffee tour to a new continent so hold thumbs for that update. But for now we suggest you add one more new years resolution to your list. Bookmark Coffey & Cake and make sure you get to at least one of these fantastic coffee shops near you.

So the question remains…

WHERE WILL YOU BE DRINKING COFFEE IN 2016

Drink coffee in Durban | Joburg | Cape Town | Internationally

BlackOwl Urban Coffee

I’m very excited to post about this coffee company, BlackOwl Urban Coffee. Quinton got in touch with me a while back and offered to deliver some of his coffee to me in sunny Durbs. When I went to collect my box look what I found in it. I was SUPER excited to get brewing!

Black Owl Urban Coffee

The story of this coffee is unlike the many others I’ve heard. Together with photographer Ursula Du Plooy, the BlackOwl Urban Coffee team embarked on a journey to capture the heart of Jozi (Johannesburg) and it’s urban coffee culture. This is what they found.

Black Owl Urban Coffee

Black Owl Urban Coffee

Black Owl Urban Coffee

From Braamfontein to Maboneng the Jozi coffee culture is immersed in the beautiful and vibrant inner city lifestyle. On this journey they identified with two groups of coffee drinkers, the Urbanites and the Erudites. Both of these groups are described in the images above. Capturing the essence of opportunity and possibility BlackOwl Urban Coffee have identified with this culture and out of this their coffee company was born.

Single Origin, African, 100% Arabica Beans, BlackOwl Urban Coffee is chosen specifically for the Urbanite and Erudite in you to savour and enjoy every sip. From choosing the coffee – to roasting – to delivery, BlackOwl Urban Coffee are part of the whole journey.

Urbanite Coffee

  • Ugandan Single Origin
  • Medium Dark Roast
  • Fruity, red wine & a hint of chocolate flavour

We used this coffee primarily in our espresso machine.

Erudite Coffee

  • Ethiopian Single Origin
  • Medium Roast
  • Slight citrus flavour with a hint of milk chocolate

This was rather tasty made with our cold Bruer.

I love how unique this coffee story is. Give it a try and email sales@blackowlcoffee.co.za to get your hands on a bag (or two… or three). Their 1kg bag is R160 and their 250g bag is R56. Bargain!

Check out their Facebook page to keep tabs on what this awesome urban coffee company are up to, and to find out which Jozi coffee shops are serving their coffee.