In celebration of World Coffee Day we visited Glasgow’s Papercup

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World Coffee Day is upon us, and to commemorate the occasion we spoke to Head Roaster David at Glasgow’s Papercup coffee bean roastery to find out why Glaswegians love coffee.

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00:00 I go into coffee to impress a girl

00:01 The coffee lasted longer

00:05 Coffee is the seed of the coffee cherry

00:08 Rather small tree, large shrub

00:09 which grows all across the equatorial belt

00:12 but traditionally from Ethiopia

00:14 Harvest the seeds, you harvest the fruits

00:16 the coffee fruit's like a red cherry

00:18 It can also be yellow, orange, pink

00:20 or tiger striped

00:22 and yeah, they take the fruit off

00:24 just like you would from a plum or anything else

00:26 Dry out the seeds, send the seeds to us

00:28 and the bags over there and we would roast them

00:30 turn them into the coffee beans you recognise

00:33 Been with Papercup nine years, just over

00:35 and I've been in coffee for an awful lot longer than that

00:38 and I've seen the scene grow

00:39 and there's definitely a huge, huge new scene going on

00:42 Lots of new places opening up

00:44 lots of people interested in really good coffee

00:46 lots of different, obviously different types of coffee as well

00:49 different tastes and different styles

00:51 which is fabulous

00:52 I love it so much because of the diversity of flavour

00:55 It's like everything that's good about wine

00:58 except it doesn't have alcohol

00:59 You can have it any time of the day

01:01 You can take it anywhere, you can brew it anywhere

01:03 There's never any problems

01:04 You know, in the morning you can have a nice

01:06 strong coffee to wake you up

01:08 and then in the afternoon you can have an easy going coffee

01:12 you know, with lots more fruit notes in it

01:14 In the winter you can have one that's got a bit of spice in it

01:16 and it's all coffee

01:18 Why do Glaswegians love coffee?

01:20 Why do Glaswegians love coffee?

01:26 I don't know, why does anybody love coffee?

01:28 Well in saying that, I think Glaswegians love coffee

01:30 especially the types of coffee we do

01:32 We've been doing a lot of processed and natural coffees for a long time

01:35 and I think it's because they are so funky, so fruity, so different

01:39 you know, from the kind of other coffees that you can get

01:43 then, then yeah

01:46 I think that's why those kind of coffees are popular in Glasgow

01:50 and why coffee in general has become popular

01:51 It's a good thing to do, to hang out with people, to see friends

01:54 and again you can do it any time of the day

01:55 We'll make a flat white, I think that's probably the best thing to do

01:58 So, coffee machine, everybody's seen one, usually from that side

02:01 not from this side

02:03 Got your portafilter and your group handle, should always be nice and dry

02:07 We've got an Ethiopia in the hopper here

02:09 and a nice grinder which will weigh it for us

02:11 You do have hand tampers, which is the kind of thing you would use in your house

02:19 We've got a nice fancy automatic one

02:22 So we just make sure everything's nice and level, nice and flat

02:25 Like that

02:31 Pop it in the espresso machine

02:34 and we'll let it run

02:40 So what is a flat white?

02:43 A flat white is two shots of espresso to equal parts coffee

02:48 which is normally five to six ounces

02:52 without too much formula

02:55 There you go

03:00 - Thank you.

03:01 (car engine revving)

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