Home coffee is a wonderful thing – relaxing with the fresh aroma of ground beans brewed into a silky cup of coffee is something that anyone that more than mildly enjoys coffee will be drawn towards.

Everyone has different tastes, but a common ground between fans of good coffee is that freshly ground beans give the best results.

Investing in a great home coffee machine is imperative if you want to get a similar quality of drink in your kitchen that you do in cafes and restaurants, but is also something a lot of people are not aware that is possible.

Surprisingly though, you don’t need to spend thousands of pounds like Starbucks to get great results. The big chains pay so much to be able to create large volumes of different coffee types for their customers so that big queues are kept to a minimum. While buying a good machine is important, it’s just as much about the beans too.

To use the obvious example, Starbucks have their own range of beans that they sell in store, which allows you to get a very similar flavour and texture to your drinks at home. In fact they even produce ground coffee, so that you don’t even need to buy a bean to cup coffee machine to get the Starbucks taste at home.

Of course, ground coffee will never provide quite the same quality of result, and also dries out a lot quicker than grinding beans to order when you make a drink, but if you haven’t got several hundred pounds to spend on a machine, then it’s the next best thing.

Next time, we’ll talk a little more about Starbucks beans, and how they’ve got a great range to choose from if you really enjoy their flavour in store.