What is Natural Coffee?
The natural process is responsible for some of my all time favourite coffees, but what is it? This post covers some of the processing techniques and how they affect the flavour of your cup of coffee.
What is Washed Coffee?
One of my goals is to help demystify speciality coffee, so in this post I will explain the basic process behind washed coffees.
Hallelujah! El Salvador is Here!
Hallelujah! El Salvador is here! To Celebrate Christmas, we’re launching a new coffee today - El Salvador Las Mercedes Kenia Black Honey.
So Why Lucy then?
So How come I called the roaster Lucy? It isn’t the name of my wife, daughter, mother, mother-in-law or stepmum? So what’s the story?
Santa Lucia - What’s in a name?
The name Santa Lucia is inspired by St Lucy’s Day observed on 13 December. The festival, observed mostly in Scandinavia and parts of Italy, celebrates Lucia of Syracuse, an early-4th-century saint, who according to legend brought food and aid to Christians hiding in the Roman catacombs, wearing a candle lit wreath on her head to light her way and leave her hands free to carry as much food as possible.
Mistletoe? Check. Wine? Check. Coffee?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Mistletoe? Wine? Coffee?
This is a blend of coffees from Colombia, Mexico and Rwanda with tasting notes of raisin, plum, orange and sherry!
Remember me? Oh, you will…
Remember me? Oh, you will… Working with Raw Material, a social enterprise coffee importer who donate 100% of their profits to coffee producers, we have sourced a wild, boozy and very distinctive coffee as our first Mexican offering. You will not forget this one!
“I want to cry with emotion, it’s my dream come true”
“I want to cry with emotion, it’s my dream come true” were the words that Rosely sent me when I told her that her coffee was going to be sold under her name in the UK.
Baby Loss Awareness Week and our charity partnership.
Introducing our charity partnership with Work for Good at Tommy’s.
Tommy’s as a charity is close to our hearts, and they support people with a range of child-loss issues that affect people all over the UK every day, including us, our friends, our family and our customers. Although our donation is small now, it will grow with us as we do, and it will help to look after families suffering the devastating consequences that come with the loss of a pregnancy, baby or child.
1% of every sale will be donated to Tommy’s via Work for Good
Prices, inflation and frustration.
Great Taste Awards
Since 1994, the Great Taste Awards have been the most widely recognised celebration of high quality artisan food products, and this year, we have been lucky enough to win a handful of them.
Boxing Day
Our boxes are great - internationally recognised for the quality of the packaging in fact.
They’re not always 100% the best choice for the environment though. Here’s what we think about that…
How to pick a favourite coffee
Sometimes it’s hard to pick your favourite coffee - lots of different descriptions and does that one REALLY taste like strawberries? Here, I go through some of my thinking behind describing coffees and try to map out on some very simplified criteria how you might go about choosing something you’ll enjoy.
Who am I?
Who am I? Who are any of us really? it’s one of life’s big questions.
Most people know me as the guy who won’t shut up about coffee, but why should you trust me with your morning brew?
Coffee Accessories
Accessories collection now live and available to order.
India Ratnagiri Estate Honey
(Heavily disputed) legend has it, that coffee’s earliest cultivation outside Yemen and Ethiopia was in the West of India in the Bababudangiri mountain range that now shares its name with the eponymous Sufi mystic, Brother Baba Budan, responsible for smuggling seven seeds out of the Yemeni port of Mokha in his robes
Guatemala Union Cantinil
Huehuetenango is one of Guatemala’s most respected coffee origins, lying in the West of the Country, close to the border with Mexico. Union Cantinil, composed of coffee farmers in the high mountains to the North and West of the city of Huehuetenago, produces coffees mostly processed at farm level.
Kenya Karuthi AA
Kenyan coffees are rightly prized for their vibrant acidity, full body, high sweetness and characteristic flavours of blackberry, cherry and citrus. This example is from the Karuthi washing station, part of the Othaya Farmers Co-operative Society in Nyeri County.
Sumatra Koperasi Buana Mandiri
Located in the Bener Mariah Regency of Aceh province, Northern Sumatra, Buana Mandiri co-operative (Koperasi) has more than 2000 members and produces characteristic wet-hulled coffees..
Nicaragua Peralta Estates Anaerobic Natural
In 2008 brothers Julio and Octavio Peralta shifted their focus to developing unique specialty preparations from the family coffee farm that has been in operation since the early 20th Century…