Peoples Coffee News

Daily Grind Vol. 6: The Quality Issue

We don’t talk a lot about quality at Peoples. Perhaps because it is the single most touted topic in the specialty coffee scene and can get a little tiresome when it’s the only conversation in the ...

October Coffee of the month: Guatemala Huehuetenango

We are very excited to be tasting this new harvest by cooperative GUAYA'B, who we’ve partnered with since 2008. This harvest has plenty of fruit notes including yellow apple, tangerine and goji be...

Make coffee, not war: Why being organic matters (Daily Grind Vol. 5)

Did you know when you choose organic coffee, you are participating in a long legacy of peace and harmony over war and control? 

Organics in action

Cooperatives like Anei are doing incredible things like using ants to distribute home-grown penicillin to fight coffee diseases!

The cost of staying mission-driven: Daily Grind Vol. 4

Greetings from the lower North Island, I'm sitting in my home office and thinking of the break-even sheet my accountant gave me when I first took the lease on our Constable St. shop in Newtown, wa...

Why we're investor owned: Daily Grind Vol. 3

Warm winter greetings from the roasty, toasty, wooden floors of the mothership of Peoples Coffee. Since arriving back on deck four months ago I’ve been using the analogy of a pirate ship and crew ...

Why we chose plastic: Daily Grind Vol. 2

Packaging composition is a common ‘coffee table’ chat here at Peoples Coffee. And the decision to move to soft plastic material sparked a lot of good conversation within our team.

Daily Grind Vol. 1

This month marks Matt’s (that’s me) return to the helm of the Peoples ship. I realise that this business that turns twenty this November has become an institution, at least in Wellington.

Mexico San Fernando cooperative

San Fernando (Unión de Ejidos y Comunidades San Fernando) is an organization of small coffee growers in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.The San Fernando co-op’s main goal is to improve the ...

Aeropress Recipe

January’s coffee of the month is the Colombia Tolima 🫘 Our barista Penny’s Aeropress Recipe ✨ COFFEE: 16 grams WATER: 94 degrees, 200mls METHOD: Add 16 grams of ground coffee to the chamber. The c...