Marco will be launching a brand new coffee brewer at Catex in February so we thought it might be a good idea to do a blog on it… Having already established our Filtro pour and serve brewer as one of the best-selling small batch brewers on the European market we [...]
Brewing Workshop for real people
Now that you’re all back from the Christmas splurge, have mucked up your home brews over the break and want to know why it all went so terribly wrong, we have just the thing to kick your 2013 in the right direction. So much learning, in this age of mis-information, [...]
Marco’s New Year Plans
First of all, a very happy new year to all of you. We just wanted to share some of our plans with you over the coming twelve months. We’ll have a more detailed blog leading up to each of shows but we will be exhibiting or running a brew bar [...]
Merry Christmas from everyone at Marco
Everyone at Marco would like to wish our customers, friends and associates a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. We look forward to meeting and speaking with you all in 2013.
The Marco website
Over the past few months we have been putting the wheels in motion to launch a brand new website. Over the coming months we will be building an interactive, graphically rich website which will provide much greater support for our partners and customers. We are working with Matrix internet to [...]
Seoul Cafe Show
Our Korean partners Total F&B featured our kit on their stand at this years Seoul Cafe Show. We thought it might be an idea to post some information on the show along with some photos from the event. The Seoul Cafe Show started in 2002 with a mission statement of vitalising and [...]
It is in the brewing
The hot beverage industry requires liquid to be heated. Heating liquid consumes energy. Energy is expensive and getting more expensive all the time. In general heating costs follow oil costs. These have been on a steady trajectory upward for quite some time. Energy cost trends, recent recessionary pressures, corporate social [...]
International Coffee and Tea Festival UAE 2012
Hi Folks, As you all may know we recently sponsored the Brew Bar at The 2012 International Coffee & Tea Festival. It was a great success and we have pictures of the event from Marco’s Middle East Sales Manager, Gautam Kumbargeri. For a bit of background: The festival markets itself [...]
A MOST EXCELLENT DAY
Marco is proud to host an SCAE Ireland event this coming Friday 12th October. John Thompson, Cup of Excellence Head Judge, will be running a FREE cupping of the very best lots from the Cup of Excellence selection of this year’s Rwandan and Burundian crops. Attendees will get to cup [...]
COFFEE EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Today sees the first module of an education calendar packed with education gold nuggets. As I write, Maria Cassidy and Anita Bertok from Bewley’s and Mathew Algies respectively are delivering An Introduction to Coffee Module. Next Thursday October 11th is the Green Coffee module in Marco. This will be presented [...]