Blog — December 2019

Xmas is coming, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably already scratching your head and wondering what to get your loved ones.  Well, wonder no more – because Halo has a fantastic range of different specialty coffees to suit everyone, no matter what their tastes.  To help you decide between them, here’s a little bit of information about each one.  1. Daterra Moonlight First up is our Single Origin Daterra Moonlight, from the first farm in the world to be awarded a Rainforest Alliance Sustainability A Grade.  With tasting notes of caramel, pecan, dried cherries and spicy chocolate, this...

Welcome, welcome. In this article, I do wish to get a little bit serious, but I’m going to do my best to keep it fairly lighthearted so that I refrain from scaring you away. At the very least, my intention is to give you some actionable food for thought. The original title I had penned for this article was ‘What can we - as consumers and citizens - do to help fix the environment?’ Ultimately, I felt that declaring a climate emergency at a personal level may be the umbrella that all of the answers to that question fell under....

I’ve chosen to explore the theme of used coffee grounds because it’s been on my mind ever since I heard an impassioned speech about coffee waste from bio-bean Founder Arthur Kay back in 2015. It was a waste I’d simply overlooked, perhaps many of us have, but Arthur saw that this waste stream held massive energy potential, and so he set about collecting it and converting it into energy. I’d like to say that this was the catalyst for a coffee recycling revolution, but it wasn’t. Why not? Why didn’t the lightbulb ping for every café in the UK and...