República Blog — organic coffee

Organic Decaf Coffee We all know that starting your day with a delicious cup of coffee makes you feel good, but did you know that there are actually real, science-y superpowers that coffee gives you?1. SUPER-STRENGTHOk so before you chug a latte and try pick up a car, we don’t mean super super strength - sorry. But did you know that caffeine is used by many professional athletes as a healthy and safe way to boost performance? And what’s a great source of caffeine you say? Coffee. So if you have to do anything physically exerting like moving house, manual...

Let’s have a chat about the difference between coffee and espresso. Recently, pour-over coffee has become cool (we blame the hipsters) which, by proxy has placed some types of filter coffee in the same league as the coveted espresso. For decades espresso was viewed as a superior way to drink coffee. Just ask any Australian who has traveled to the United States and it’s pretty much all they’ll talk about. 

You’ve probably heard the words ‘Fairtrade products’ bandied around quite a bit in the past few decades but you may not know exactly what it means. It sounds like it refers to products that are produced and traded fairly and while that’s certainly true, there’s a lot more to it than that.  

We’d like to preface this blog by saying that there’s nothing wrong with a coffee addiction. It’s like being addicted to rainbows or kindness. However if you’re thinking you may be addicted to coffee, but you’re not quite sure, here are a few signs you may well not be able to function without your cup(s) of República coffee...