00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name is Theo Huston-Betts and today marks the start
00:03of our Finding the Best Coffee in Manchester series. We introduced this a couple of weeks
00:08ago with a video at Idle Hands and today we're on our way to 200 Degrees Coffee which is the
00:13perfect place to start really because as well as producing some of the best coffee in the city,
00:18it's also a barista school so I'm hoping that they can talk me through exactly what goes into
00:22the perfect cup. So I'm in place at 200 Degrees now, you may have seen me at previous videos here,
00:26it is a place I love, it's very conveniently close to the office and the coffee is great so
00:31I've spoken to one of the leaders of the barista school here to learn a little bit about coffee
00:35so I'm going to throw back to coffee expert Theo in the office and he's going to fill you in on
00:39what makes a good cup of coffee. Hello, Theo the coffee expert here, so I sat down with some of
00:44the barista school staff to learn a little bit about coffee and a lot obviously comes down to
00:48the beans. 200 Degrees for example get theirs from a combination of Brazil, Colombia and Uganda
00:52with the Central and South American flavours being the most common and popular amongst the masses.
00:56Coffee recipes rely on three things, the amount of coffee going into a drink, the amount of time
01:00it spends being extracted and then the liquid amount that comes out before additions. While
01:04we've already settled on the flat white as a vessel for this series, the leader of the barista
01:08school suggested that a cortado which is a 50-50 split of coffee and milk or a simple filter coffee
01:12are other simple ways of judging if you want to try it yourself. At 200 Degrees they roast their
01:17coffee at a lower temperature than usual believing that it provides a smoother, richer taste and
01:21doing all the roasting themselves mean they have more control over the finished product.
01:24That should mean that we're in for a great cup of coffee but let's go see what reviewer Theo
01:29has to say. So there we are I mean we're here now and as I'll remind you we're going to start with
01:34a flat white and a cake basically from every place that we go to and then we'll give a rating
01:38for the coffee, rating for the cake and an overall rating as well. You can sense really that it's a
01:48bit of a darker roast, there's quite a lot of bitterness in the back but a really pleasant
01:52bitterness that then fades away really easily, combines really nicely with the milk and then as
01:56for the cake you've got a carrot cake here that looks absolutely lovely and we'll give that a try
02:02as well. So carrot cake actually is a food that it took me a long while to work my way into.
02:07I was a kid I heard carrot in a cake and thought someone's trying to trick me into vegetables but
02:12basically because I'm a sucker for cream cheese icing I've fallen in love with it.
02:16Oh wow and it just comes together in this amazing sort of just delightful
02:24experience so to be honest I think the cake's getting an 8.5, the coffee's getting a 9 and
02:31because of the atmosphere, because of my love for this place, because of just the overall
02:35enjoyment of being here I think 200 degrees is going to get a 9 out of 10. We are going to
02:40introduce decimal points later on in the series but for now I'm going to set a standard this is a
02:449 out of 10 coffee place in Manchester. So that's all for now, follow Manchester World for more,
02:48we hope this has been informative, we're hopefully looking forward to the next episode and if you've
02:51got anywhere that you want to recommend, anywhere sort of a small chain or local independent we'll
02:56get down there we'll give it a try. So that's all for now, follow Manchester World for more.
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