CRUSH:\u00a0How did you\u00a0come to start the business and where do you get your beans from?<\/b><\/p>\n
NIEL<\/strong>: I first tried cold brew in my 3-year stint as a New Yorker. Believe it or not, the summers up there can get just as hot and sticky as ours. In conditions like that, a piping hot Americano isn’t how you want to start the day! Cold brew has become popular there as a way to enjoy ice coffee, while honouring the humble bean it’s made from. Sure, you still see a lot of frappuccinos, but New York has embraced cold brew like few other cities and for me it was love at first sip. We<\/span>\u00a0decided to make cold brew right here in Cape Town, thinking “that can’t be too hard”. We were ever so slightly wrong about that! But two years later, \u00a0we’re still brewing and I still love me some cold brew.<\/span><\/p>\n CRUSH:\u00a0Who are your favourite local roasteries?<\/b><\/p>\n NIEL<\/strong>: I’m a Truth<\/strong> kind of guy. They’re into subtlety, they’re into quality and they helped us to find the perfect blend for our cold brew. Having said that, Cape Town and Joburg can both boast of some serious coffee game and we’re spoilt for choice in both cities.<\/span><\/p>\n CRUSH:\u00a0If you weren\u2019t in cold brew, what would you be doing?<\/b><\/p>\n NIEL<\/strong>: Truth be told, I already do far too much outside of cold brew. I do a lot of film photography, I run an office space and work in technology education… it’s kind of obvious why I need a good source of caffeine like Potion.<\/span><\/p>\n CRUSH: Where can the good people of Cape Town find Potion?<\/strong><\/p>\n NIEL:\u00a0<\/strong>We’re still limited to Cape Town, but you’ll find us at at the V&A Waterfront Food Market<\/strong>, at Truth<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on Buitenkant Street (voted #1 coffee shop in the world by the Telegraph!) and at Superette<\/strong><\/a> in the Woodstock Exchange, among other places.<\/p>\n CRUSH: How is Potion best enjoyed?<\/strong><\/p>\n NIEL:\u00a0<\/strong>Straight-up in a beautiful whiskey tumbler, no question. But customers have done all sorts of things like adding condensed milk and agave and Lord knows what else, and I thoroughly approve of their experimentation. You can even drink it hot, if you want to be daring.<\/p>\n Quickfire<\/b><\/p>\n What is your spirit animal and why?<\/b><\/p>\n No Pok\u00e9mon allowed, is that it? Fine, I choose the platypus. It’s got a bit of everything!<\/span><\/p>\n Dream place to travel?<\/b><\/p>\n Japan is about the most different country to South Africa you can get, and I urge anyone with the resources (admittedly, it’s very expensive) to go wander under the glaring neon lights of Tokyo and eat their delicious food.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n potioncoffee.com<\/a>\u00a0| Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> If you keep an eye on international food and drink trends, you’ll notice that cold brew is huge and it’s making waves here in SA. Despite the chilly weather, we’re already obsessed with the cool caffeine kick. The best thing we love about it is its clean, bitter flavour. If you’re a fan of rich coffee then you’ll love cold brew. We love to sip it as is, black, but it’s not unheard of to sweeten it up with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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