The new Red Brick label
Labels are difficult things. So much you want to express, and so little room. With the move away from the individual seasonal names we wanted to look at where we thought we had succeeded with label and where we wanted…
Introducing Red Brick
For the last three years we’ve changed our Seasonal Espresso four times per year, and named each blend after the seasons. We feel it has been a great success, especially when it comes to generating interest and enjoyment in the…
Limited Edition Espresso: Sweet Shop
Last year we created a fun espresso blend called Juice. This year we’re doing a one-off roast of a blend we are calling Sweet Shop. The idea was to blend for a different reason – to see how far we…
Autumn Espresso
It’s been in the shop for a couple of weeks already, but I hope it’s not too late to announce the arrival of our Autumn seasonal espresso! I don’t know about the rest of you, but apart from last weeks…
Brewing Juice
UPDATE: Due to the Monday Bank Holiday and a recent postal strike in our area (We’re not loving Royal Mail at the moment…) Some of you will experience delays in receiving Juice (and probably also September’s subscription coffee.) Given that…
Espresso Blend: Juice
There is a new espresso blend in the shop, but there are a few important things to know about it. Juice is a one-off roast – we will be roasting and shipping it on the 1st of September only. If…
Taste of Canada report
What a way to round off this run of espresso events! Taste of Canada was an awesome evening, as always made special by the coffees the roasters sent. Frustratingly the coffee from Discovery fell victim to our postal service (do…
Taste of Canada
Quiet for a while, then two posts in one day! Such a flurry of activity! So – the final Taste of Event that we are going to do for a while. They have been a huge success (far more popular…
South East Regional Barista Champion: Gwilym Davies!
Yesterday saw the last of the UK regional heats take place in Lewes, featuring baristas from London and the South East plus a couple of out of region entrants. We knew this last heat was going to be a tough…