Who We Are

An independent coffee review site that posts reviews of coffee, cafes, and events, in a blog format.
An independent coffee review site, our story starts with The Mean Bean Machine. The Machine was initially built to write, in order to create the perfect story. Imbued with human sentience, it's was programmed with a BA in Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich but in this economy, there was no place for a machine that could spin the ultimate tale so it turned its programming to coffee!
Getting a job in an independent coffee shop in Hertfordshire, The Machine was trained at Union Coffee's headquarters in East London and soon found its mechanical perfection meant it could crank out the ideal cup of coffee, and so it rapidly rose to the position of Head Barista of aforementioned shop but it never forgot its first love...writing.
Under a human guise, the machine would go on to become an award winning short story writer and would pursue employment in copy and content (The Machine would like to direct you to its portfolio at vincentwoodwriting.weebly.com).
However, after a few years, it realised it could marry its two passions and thus started our project.
Here The Machine posts reviews of coffee, cafes, and events, in a blog format so that it can continue to write about being hopelessly addicted to coffee. Is it a writing project? Is it a coffee project? Only The Machine knows.
 - The Mean Bean Machine