Caffeine Magazine issue 50 cover beside the quote: pioneers who saw coffee capsules as a way to bring some of the world's best coffee. Difference Coffee

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Caffeine Magazine on the Capsule Collection

Caffeine Magazine's issue 50 cover story on speciality pods names Difference Coffee among the pioneers and asks Amir Gehl why he chose capsules.

By Difference Coffee Published Updated

Issue 50 of Caffeine, the UK magazine for independent and speciality coffee, asked on its cover whether we have reached "peak pod". Inside, Phil Wain's four-page feature, Capsule Collection, traced how speciality coffee came to terms with the capsule.

The piece describes Difference Coffee and Colonna Coffee as pioneers who saw coffee capsules as a way to bring some of the world's best coffee to a wider range of customers, and notes that we were, and still are, selling elite coffees including La Esmeralda Geisha micro-lots and Cup of Excellence winners.

Asked why he chose to focus on pods, Amir explained that he simply wanted better coffee. He bought Kona at Harrods and made a capsule with it at home by hand, and it tasted much better: "That's when the idea for Difference started". Looking ahead, he told the magazine that "Pods are here to stay", and that the conversation now is about making them more sustainable rather than less convenient.

Caffeine Magazine issue 50 page 30, Capsule Collection, red coffee capsules photographed by Gary Smith
Caffeine, issue 50, page 30.
Caffeine Magazine issue 50 page 31, Capsule Collection by Phil Wain, on speciality coffee pods
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Caffeine Magazine issue 50 page 32, Difference Coffee and Amir Gehl named as speciality capsule pioneers
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Caffeine Magazine issue 50 page 33, Amir Gehl on why coffee pods are here to stay
Page 33. Words by Phil Wain, photography by Gary Smith.

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