Part two: Roasting For me, the roasting process is one of the most fascinating aspects of the coffee industry. By taking the raw seed from the coffee cherry (which has almost no flavour beyond a mild vegetal taste) and applying heat, it’s transformed into the aromatic and complex bean we...

Part one: Sourcing There have never been as many coffee roasters and as much great coffee as there is today, and in our opinion, we’ve never had it so good! But what do coffee roasters actually do? In a series of blog posts, I'll talk through our experiences in sourcing...

And what a rollercoaster it’s been! I once read that nine out of ten new businesses fail within their first year, and although this turned out to be far from the truth (it’s more like three out of ten), this so-called “statistic” always haunted me… and yet, here we are,...