{"id":5152,"date":"2018-02-10T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aussiepizzas.com\/PIZZADELIVERY\/coffee-subscription-review-dog-hat\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:47:32","slug":"coffee-subscription-review-dog-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aussiepizzas.com\/PIZZADELIVERY\/coffee-subscription-review-dog-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Subscription Review: Dog & Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sampling outstanding coffees, discovering new roasters and trying coffee varieties or origins that I might not otherwise have chosen are three of my top criteria when considering a speciality coffee subscription service. With a dapper, doggy sigil and a focus on high-quality, ethically sourced coffee, Dog & Hat Coffee<\/a> is a multi-roaster speciality coffee subscription service run by the Morgan Family in York. I had heard good things about the company, including from fellow coffee bloggers Bean There at, who reviewed the November box<\/a>, and my first Dog & Hat box easily met all three criteria.<\/p>\n

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Su from Dog & Hat kindly offered to send me a complimentary box for review, although I wasn’t obliged to post anything, and as always, receiving a review product influences neither my decision to review it nor my opinions of it in any reviews I do write. I received the February box<\/a>, which included three bags of coffee beans, one roaster for filter, one for espresso, and one that would work equally well for both. And overall, I was very happy both with the service and the coffee \u2014 two of the three coffees were truly excellent, and the third allowed me sample some very good coffee from a country still in the early stages of its speciality-coffee journey.<\/p>\n

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The box arrived towards the end of January. Very few coffee (and other) packages fit through my letterbox at home (and the three-coffee box is unlikely to fit through many people’s letterboxes) so I had it delivered to my office. I was impressed, however, with the minimal and completely recyclable packaging \u2014 no plastic and no bumf, just the coffee and Dog & Hat’s concise but detailed coffee guides.<\/p>\n

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When you sign up for a Dog & Hat subscription, you can select whether you’d like two bags of (usually) 250g coffee beans per month (\u00a317) or three (\u00a324), and whether you’d prefer espresso-roasted beans, filter-roasted beans or an assortment. Delivery is free within the UK, which makes the service very good value, especially given the quality of the coffee. The coffees also arrived soon after their roast date, which is particularly important for people like me who live alone and who sometimes take a fortnight to get through a bag of beans. My box featured three new-to-me, UK roasters (previous Dog & Hat boxes have featured roasters from other European countries):<\/p>\n