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Grinding coffee is simple in theory. But like any skill, it’s easy when you know how! Selecting the right grind for your chosen brew is crucial if you want to make the perfect drink. There are many ways in which you can make coffee – espresso, filter & cafetiere perhaps being the best recognised – all of which need the grind adjusting to get the best out of the beans. In simple terms, the longer the ground coffee comes into contact with water the coarser the coffee needs to be ground. An espresso will extract in around 25-30 seconds, whereas...

Recently retired, Rennick, a true Yorkshireman, has worked tirelessly for the last 50 years promoting all that is to be loved about fine food and drink throughout the Dales and the North of England. Rennick Hodgson (known as Ricky to his nearest & dearest) is a man who had a dream that, with a lot of years of hard work, heaps of passion and some good old-fashioned determination, came true. Back in the early 80s he was on a mission – to convert the tea drinking, instant powdered coffee drinking, Yorkshire population onto enjoying the best, most delicious coffees he could...