Here at Cuppamigo, we get it: the culture of the cuppa. Whether it’s coffee or tea, we see it as more than just a drink you have to get your fix of caffeine. It’s an experience of the senses. Touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound are all part of having a cup, and some folks would go so far as to call it a lifestyle.
Mmm, can you smell that roast?
We get that lifestyle. We aim to find only the best things needed to make our idea of the perfect cuppa a reality. On this site, you’ll find our search for the best, and our opinions on the various pieces of equipment and accessories used in the experience of the cup: the good, the bad, and the ugly. We hope that these findings can help you in your own search for that perfect cup.
So don’t be shy, and have a look around.
A Cuppa Ruffy
A simple guy who appreciates a good cup of tea – and an equally good cup of coffee. Rufino Larson started out knowing very little about tea. His knowledge consisted of the much-paraded claim that it is the second most consumed drink in the world after water, the odd notion that green tea was somehow inherently better than black tea, and the little factoid that Darjeeling Tea is the rarest tea in the world (He looked up the latter after hearing about it in an outrageously quirky Japanese video game called Metal Wolf Chaos). Also, he only ever thought that tea always came in teabags.
That changed in early 2014, when he started looking more into teas. First by buying some ‘fancier’ brands, like Twinings, rather than the McCormick he’d been getting (Yes. McCormick sells teabags). Later on, he discovered the existence of loose leaf teas, and took the plunge when he ordered his first pack of loose leaf tea online. Since then, he’s never looked back.
Ruffy has since grown a small collection of teas, from Puttabong Estate Darjeeling First Flush, to the classic Tieguanyin, to Sheng Puerh taken from 700-year-old trees. He loves them all.
Coffee Surprise
Perhaps his most interesting discovery, however, are the similarities between tea and coffee. When he found himself in the possession of a pack of Kopi Luwak, Ruffy decided to look up how to properly brew it. What he learned was a pleasant surprise. A good cup of coffee depends on the same things as a good cup of tea.
As such, he doesn’t see any ‘conflict’ between the two drinks, and views coffee as tea’s respectable cousin. Cuppamigo serves as his foray into the world of coffee, an experiment to see just how deep down that rabbit hole goes.