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Gold, Silver and Bronze place in this year’s Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards for Watermark Coffee.
Watermark Coffee win a Gold, Silver and Bronze place in this year’s Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards. Blas na hEireann is often described as the Oscars for the Irish Food Industry and included over 3000 submissions from a wide range of artisanal and specialist food...

Looking to improve your café’s profitability?
The café industry is a fast moving and exciting place to work but it does require the owners to be on the ball in terms of what’s really happening in their business and how they should prepare for what might happen next. While there are a lot of factors that are...

The Flat White
In essence, the Flat White coffee is a Café Latte with the proportions of milk to coffee changed around a bit. For a lot of cafes, the standard Latte is served in a 12 oz (354ml) cup with a double shot of espresso of 60ml using around 18g of coffee. Steamed milk...

Our sister brand – Green Ocean Coffee
We are really delighted to announce our new coffee concept, Green Ocean Coffee. Like Woodland Coffee, it's dual objective is to deliver sustainably sourced superior quality coffee while funding action to tackle climate change. Green Ocean coffee funds the restoration...

Introducing the New Gaggia La Dea 1 group coffee machine
New from Gaggia Milano is the La Dea 1 group traditional barista coffee machine. This is a smart looking coffee machine aimed at premium locations that want to make their coffee a star of the show. La Dea, meaning ‘Goddess’; combines tradition, innovation...

Christmas Opening Hours & Delivery Cut-Offs
The festive season is fast approaching, and we would like to make you aware of delivery cut-offs and our Christmas opening hours. The last date for placing orders for delivery before Christmas is Monday 19th December 2022. Whilst every effort will be made to...

Woodland Coffee Tree certificates on their way! 🙂
Woodland Coffee is only 24 months old. Launched during the frustrating dark Covid days of October 2020; the timing was nothing short of awful, but this choice of poor timing was overwhelmed by our impatience to get our lives moving again; this meant we couldn’t wait...

Our Woodland Plantation Update 2022
I took a visit to our Woodland Coffee plantation in Knockballyfookeen between the villages of Oola and Pallasgreen in August 2022. As you can see from the short video, the weather was amazing and the trees were performing well considering the dry conditions that we...

The Colour of Coffee
The flavour in your cup of coffee is influenced by many factors such as the how it's brewed, who’s making it and of course the type and roast profile of coffee bean being used or otherwise known as colour. The factors behind the colour of the coffee are: 1 Origin...

The Health Benefits of Coffee
Over the decades numerous studies have been carried out into the effects of coffee consumption on human health and it seems that the scientific research backs up what we already knew. Coffee makes us feel alert, energised and gives us that burst of energy and...