From Roast to Refreshment: Elevate Your Summer Drinks with Home-Roasted Coffee and Ronnefeldt Tea

There's something truly special about crafting your own coffee from bean to cup. With the Gene Cafe home coffee roaster, you can unlock a world of flavour that pre-roasted beans simply can't match. This summer, why not take your home roasting journey a step further? We're sharing two delightful recipes that pair the art of roasting with refreshing cool drinks, featuring our favourite Ronnefeldt teas. Get ready to impress your guests with a Dirty Chai Latte and a zesty Lemon Sun Iced Tea, both elevated by your very own home-roasted coffee.

Part 1: The Art of Home Roasting with Gene Cafe

Before we dive into the recipes, let's briefly talk about the star of the show: the Gene Cafe roaster. This countertop drum roaster is beloved by home enthusiasts for its ability to produce consistently excellent roasts.
This home coffer bean roaster made in Korea is simple and quite affordable machine worth paying for.

A Simple Beginner's Method:
If you're new to roasting, here's a great starting point, as shared by home roaster Michael Rood:
"When I first started roasting with the Gene Cafe a few years ago, I followed the standard instructions and ended up with a batch that was far too dark and bitter. Through trial and error, I've found that for our customers' favourite espresso blends, a slightly shorter roast time (around 9 minutes at 250°C) works best, preserving the bright acidity."

1. Pre-heat the Gene Cafe at 250°C for 10 minutes.
2. Turn the heat down to 205°C, add 150g of green beans, and leave for 6 minutes.
3. After 6 minutes, crank the temperature up to 250°C and leave it for 9-10 minutes for a medium/city roast.

Pro Tips for Success:
- Ventilation is Key: Always roast in a well-ventilated area, as the process produces smoke.
- Listen for the Cracks: The first crack signals a light roast, while the second crack indicates a darker roast. This is your auditory guide to achieving your preferred flavour profile.
- Cool Down Properly: Immediately after roasting, use the cooling cycle to stop the process and preserve the beans' flavour. You can also transfer them to a cooling tray for faster results.

Once you've roasted a batch of your favourite beans, the real fun begins. Here are two perfect summer drinks that let your home-roasted coffee shine alongside premium Ronnefeldt teas.

Part 2: Recipes
"This Iced Dirty Chai Latte tastes even better when served in our new Villeroy & Boch Amazonia tea cup. The rich, tropical pattern on the porcelain complements the spicy, bold flavours of the chai perfectly, making your afternoon break feel like a mini escape."

Recipe 1: Iced Dirty Chai Latte

This recipe brilliantly combines the spicy warmth of Ronnefeldt Masala Chai with the bold intensity of your freshly roasted espresso or cold brew. It's the perfect pick-me-up for a warm afternoon.

Ingredients:
- 1 shot of espresso or ¼ cup of cold brew (using your home-roasted beans!)
- 170 ml brewed Ronnefeldt Masala Chai (follow steeping instructions on the pack)
- Honey, to taste
- Cold milk (or a milk alternative)
- Ice cubes

Method:
1. Steep the Ronnefeldt Masala Chai tea in hot water as per the instructions.
2. Measure out 170ml of the brewed chai and mix with your desired amount of honey for sweetness.
3. Fill a glass with ice cubes.
4. Pour the sweetened chai over the ice.
5. Pull a fresh shot of espresso (or measure out your cold brew) and pour it over the chai.
6. Top up the glass with cold milk, give it a good stir, and enjoy your sophisticated iced beverage.

Recipe 2: Lemon Sun Iced Tea

Ronnefeldt's Lemon Sun tea is a vibrant, fruity infusion that tastes like summer in a cup. This simple iced tea recipe is incredibly refreshing and showcases the tea's bright lemon and apple notes.

Ingredients:
- 20 g Ronnefeldt Lemon Sun tea
- 500 ml boiling water (100°C)
- 50 ml lemon juice
- 8 tbsp elderflower syrup (or to taste)
- Ice cubes
- Garnish: fresh mint and lemon slices

Method:
1. Brew the Ronnefeldt Lemon Sun tea with 500 ml of boiling water.
2. Let it steep for 10 minutes, then allow it to cool completely in the refrigerator.
3. Mix the cooled tea with the lemon juice and elderflower syrup.
4. Fill glasses with ice cubes and pour the tea over.
5. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and a slice of lemon for a beautiful, Instagram-worthy finish.

Conclusion

Whether you're perfecting your roast profile with the Gene Cafe or crafting the ideal summer cooler with Ronnefeldt teas, the joy is in the process. These recipes are a fantastic way to showcase your home-roasted coffee and explore the versatility of premium teas. We'd love to hear about your own experiments—share your creations with us!

One of real Gene Cafe user review:
"I'll be honest: my first attempt at roasting with the Gene Cafe was a smoky disaster because I underestimated the ventilation. But once I set up a small fan by the kitchen window, the results improved dramatically. The machine is very forgiving, but don't skip this step!"

What is Yoga

What is Yoga? – academic study and school

What is Yoga? In today’s society, Yoga is known as a decent exercise, stretching, or one type of alternative medicines. Originally, Yoga was designed to eliminate a so-called “Turbulence of Mind” and it connotes “balance”, “harmony” and “unity”. Ancient Yogi (trainees) practised three primary disciplines including Asana, Pranayama and Medication. Asana is “postures” and Pranayama is “breathing”. They strictly controlled over themselves at minimum rules based on “Yama (Do-Not-Do)” and “Niyama (Must-Do)”. It is overall Yoga system as well as traditional Yoga according to the 8 Angas of Yoga that Patanjali who was is called a “Yoga Saint” created.

8 Angas of traditional Yoga

Asana (postures)
Pranayama (breathing)
Pratyahara (control of sense)
Dharana (concentration)
Dhyana (meditation)
Samadhi (transcendence)
Yama (abstinence)
Niyama (offer)

3 Primary Disciplines

The reason why Yoga draws public attention is explained on its scientific attribute. Out of 8 Angas of Yoga, these three primary disciplines are the most commonly performed by the current trainees as practical ways of Yoga training.

1) Asana (postures)

It helps to increase the immune system and self-regenerating of the cell by stimulating functions of individual muscles or body parts, nerve, and hormone. This way, it works with chronic symptoms including chronic fatigue, gastroenteric trouble, backache, high blood pressure, and diabetes. It also works with typical female symptoms like obesity, insomnia.

2) Pranayama (Breathing)

It helps to stabilise peace of mind through cleaning the nerve system, which enables improve the controllability of autonomic nerve. Hence, it gives a great help for the nervous disorder.

3) Meditation

It contributes improving mental strength such as the faculty of memory, concentration, creativeness and judgment. It can finally lead you a productive life and get a peaceful mind, which is people’s basic orientation.

Yoga School

There is a wide variety in Yoga School originated since ancient time, but the traditional Yoga classifies into five schools in general; Hatha-yoga, raja-yoga, jnana-yoga, karma-yoga, and bhakti-yoga. However, there are other schools such as tantra-yoga, mantra-yoga and so on, but they have different ways of approaching how to reach to their goal “Yoga.”

Above five schools refer to the ontology that Samkhya Philosophy advocates. In Samkhya philosophy, it promotes two ultimate realities – “matter” and “self (spirit)”. It says to know requires a mind, to move or to act requires knowledge. And For knowing acquires through 5 human senses; see, hear, taste, feel, smell. For working, eyes, ears, mouth, skin and nose are the reason to exist.

How to discipline in modern Yoga training school

raja-yoga (mental): breathing, meditation training, meditation lectures and meditation camp
jnana-yoga (5 senses): Yoga and talk about natural health, printing and publishing editorials and journals
karma-yoga (5 sensory organs): Keeping regular hours, Practising Niyama, overcome constitution through orthosis
hatha-yoga (body): All yoga training program
bhakti-yoga (perfection of the body): Develop Yoga methods for disabilities, Donation

We will go further more about what is Yoga and how to train the Yoga in today’s school.

Iced TEA recipes to Preserve You Cool Summer

Cool Iced Tea recipes to preserve you cool through the summer

When heat is rising, one glass of refreshing iced tea could be the perfect method to cool off. But, before you heading to the refreshing beverages aisle of your neighbourhood supermarket, check out our iced tea recipes. They create the drink that is healthier, tastier and even more natural than bottled iced tea – and, one that’s a lot more rewarding to take pleasure.
Our iced tea quality recipes are simple to follow. Each offers as its primary ingredient among our orthodox-created infusions or teas. The quality part implies that their flavour is hard to beat, and their quality is second to none.
If you’re heading on a picnic, having a BBQ, or calming in the backyard just, these iced tea quality recipes provide the ideal accompaniment. You can adjust them to your preferences, and add fruit or mint to flavour give them even more. Perhaps you may make use of carbonated drinking water to provide your iced tea sort of increased vigour.
With regards to producing your iced tea, there are many strategies to which you could adhere. You may make the tea at nominal strength, chill it to the required temperature then. As another option, you can infuse the tea at two-fold the strength, pour it on ice cubes to dilute it twice.
You can prepare the iced tea beforehand even, to ensure that it’s prepared to drink once you need it. Make the tea at double strength only, place the liquid into an ice-cube bag, and freeze it. Then, if you are ready to benefit from the tea, just pop the ‘tea-cubes’ out from the handbag and dilute them with water to taste. After the tea focus has melted, you shall be remaining with a delicious cup of ice-frosty tea.
If you’re sense adventurous, you can produce your personal iced tea dishes from our collection of green tea dark tea, oolong tea, fruit infusions and herbal infusions. Or if you love to check out a tried-and-examined iced tea recipe, this is a selection of a few of our favourites:

Iced Lemon Sky

Ingredients:

4 of Lemon Sky tea bags
350 ml Hot water
100 ml orange juice
One teaspoon powdered ginger
Mint leaves
Ten pieces Ice cubes

1. Half-fill up a tall glass with the mint leaves
2. Put in a pinch of powdered ginger, and the new orange juice
3. Fill up the cup with ice
4. Brew the Lemon Sky tea hand bags in the boiling drinking water for 2-3 minutes
5. Pour over the juice mix

Earl Grey Punch

Ingredients:

One lemon Juice
300 ml orange juice
140 ml apple juice
Three heaped teaspoons Darjeeling Earl Grey tea
200 ml light ginger ale
1 1/2 teaspoon caster sugar
Two springs of mint
Ten pieces ice cubes
Dark RUM

1. Place Earl Grey loosed leaf tea right into a teapot
2. Add boiling water, and keep the tea to brew for 2- 3 minutes
3. As the tea is usually brewing, pour the fruit drinks, ginger sugar and ale into a jug. Add the infused tea, and stir to dissolve the sugar
4. Add the mint, permit the punch to amazing, chill it in the fridge after that
5. Take away the mint, and add the rum (optional)
6. Add ice cubes to the jug, and serve

Ronnefeldt tea Morning Dew (Morgenthau) with Mango

Ingredients:
Four heaped teaspoons of Ronnefeldt Morning hours Dew (Morgenthau)
400 ml drinking water – boiled, and cooled to 80-90°C
1-2 cl mango syrup
Mango slices (to decorate)

· 1. Place the tea on a tea infuser into a small sized teapot and pour water in full.
· 2. Leave the tea brew for 2 – three minutes
· 3. Add the mango syrup, and mix thoroughly
· 4. Decorate with a slice of mango

Rooibos Orange Cream

Ingredients:

Four teaspoons Cream Orange loosed leaf tea
400 ml Hot water
Acacia honey
1-2 pieces of vanilla ice cream cubes

1. Put the tea into a little teapot, and fill up with the boiling water
2. Keep the tea to brew for two to three minutes
3. Add the acacia honey, to taste
4. Fill a pitcher with ice cubes, and pour the tea on ices to chill down
5. Place the ice cream right into a glass, and fill it up with the chilled tea

To create your taste buds tingle more even, top your the miracles of water with cream, orange zest and grated white chocolate.

Why Do I Love SIGG Water Bottles!

My most favourite SIGG Water Bottle!

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All of the SIGG undergo additional rigorous testing conducted by independent test laboratories to certify that each of the manufactured bottles meets SIGG’s quality standards. With its introduction of SIGG VIVA collection, SIGG quickly rose to fame around the world as an innovator of smart and ecologically sound drinking solutions. VIVA collection is manufactured from high quality, toxin-free and 100% recyclable polypropylene and it lives up to the Switzerland standard of delivering quintessential value, versatility and healthier hydration choices to consumers.

I came across a SIGG water bottles last week at the supermarket, with its diverse range of colours and various editions. That was fun to see that SIGG water bottles did not just come in Stainless Steel but also in Aluminium, Glass and Polypropylene (my most favourite). SIGG has a lively collection of water bottles with a remarkable colour range that you just can’t miss out. I got myself the clear Red SIGG VIVA drinking bottle that I instantly fell in love. It’s vibrant colour, it’s unique style, and high-quality polypropylene made me buy it immediately.

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