New Arrival - El Portillo

New in the shop today - the El Portillo, our Costa Rican CoE offering this year.
We’ve really been enjoying this coffee during its roast development, very sweet and pleasantly juicy.  More details on the cup, farm and farmers in the shop.
We bought two bags of it, so don’t expect it to be around for [...]

Taste of New Zealand - 10th September

In the second of our international espresso events we are bringing in some of the best espressos in New Zealand to taste side by side. We’ll brew them like they ask us to, and maybe have a chat about them afterwards over a beer. All of the profits from the tickets sales go to Bikes [...]

Taste of Norway - Report

We’d like to blame Norwegian postmen for the small problems we had with the Taste of Norway event. We had asked 5 roasters in Norway to take part and all had agreed. Then began the problems: Unfortunately not all the coffee arrived on time!
Our hair was torn out.
Two roasters did manage to break [...]

WBC Espresso Sold Out

After a monster order from Poland we are now sold out of WBC Espresso.  Those of you who have emailed asking about shipping for specific destinations will get your coffee!  The response has been amazing, and we are glad people have enjoyed it.
The new espresso blend will be on the site fairly soon.  In the [...]

No more Nyamagabe

We’ve almost run out of Nyamagabe, and it has been removed from the shop - however the little we do have will go into the last of the WBC espresso blend, so if you are curious about that espresso blend then now would be a good time to check it out!

Our online shop now live

We are delighted to annouce that as of this evening the online shop is now live.
Shop
We hope people enjoy the coffee and use the feedback form on this blog to let us know what they think.  We are still working on the shipping charges for overseas orders and they should be in place tomorrow.
Happy shopping!

Future Espresso Events

So the first of the planned ‘Taste of….’ series starts with Norway in a couple of days. As we’re fully subscribed and people keep asking when the next one is and when their favourite country is coming up I thought I’d list the intended order now, and hope that the planets align to make it [...]

Writeup - Open Cupping 31st July

Our first proper open cupping was a lot of fun. With about 25 people there we were pretty much up to capacity, and it was an interesting mixture of coffee people - consumers, baristas, cafe owners and (probably for the first time in London) roasters from 4 different roasteries in London all cupping together.
Just [...]