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View fullsize WHOLESALE - BUY BAGS OF EXPERIMENTALLY PROCESSED NONSENSE IN BULK Admittedly I have been bad at this in the past, I don’t like ‘selling’, and juggling the shop, the roastery and baby life was a good excuse for me not to give whole
View fullsize You know despite being the proud owner of a number of corduroy overshirts, selvedge denim, an actual pencil case and rhodia notebooks, and also being a fully subscribed member of Adobe creative cloud, I actually can’t draw, write (cursive?! wha
View fullsize *NEW DIEGO JUST LANDED* I’ve lost count of the number of Diego beans I’ve had in, and there’s part of me that kind of thinks “you know what, maybe I should give it a rest for a while”, but then I get lots like this com
View fullsize INCOMING! 🚨 RECESSION PROOF BANGER SERIES #5 The fifth in this series, and our second Geisha! It’s a naturally processed fruity number with a ton of pineapple and cherry in the cup, along with a pleasant malic/grapefruit acidity. You might
View fullsize It’s been difficult to do this with an online business... We all need a break though and when the opportunity comes to do one of those once in a lifetime trips, it’s hard to to say no. So the 3 of us are currently off on a road trip acr
View fullsize The fourth and maybe best release in the recession proof series. 
My favourite farm, El Paraiso, and one of the most innovative growers, Diego Bermudez. 
Anaerobically fermented, twice, and a thermal shock wash. Candy shop tasting notes. 
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View fullsize Introducing our third release in the recession proof banger series, and this time we have a washed lot from Walter Penna in Colombia. Raspberry, chocolate & vanilla. This crop landed last year and has snuck under the radar, so we’ve got a
View fullsize A belated happy new year from me at the Roastery. I’m sat down amongst sacks of beans, watching the roaster turn as I type this, and trying to reflect on last year. In the roastery we had our busiest year yet, with new customers and wholesale,
View fullsize RECESSION PROOF BANGER SERIES RELEASE #2 So you polished the first in this series off in under a week! Here’s the second ‘recession proof’ release, a Pink Bourbon scoring a mightily impressive 87.75, all for under 20 notes! Like th
View fullsize So this only took about 6 weeks longer than I had planned… But so damn excited to introduce you to our new packaging. Our 225g bags are now completely plastic free, you can chuck them straight out into your household recycling! We’ve s
View fullsize Closeups from our new branding to launch later this week… This should have gone live last week but we’ve been… and still are… waiting on our new labels and bags to arrive from the printers. Excited to get this out, and we h
View fullsize I’ve been on a bit of a go slow recently. You might remember I mentioned last month we’ve had three new lots land with us, they’re not on the store yet which I’m kicking myself for as they are really, really, good beans. You
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El Paraiso Pink Bourbon

Diego and the team at El Paraiso are back!⁣
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Where to start with this one, this is special, really special, a 90+ cup score Pink Bourbon and it's an absolute banger. This is our second coffee from Diego, the first natural lot released in January quickly went down a storm and disappeared, so I feel very lucky to have been able to secure this second very limited Pink Bourbon lot from our importing partner.⁣
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I’m really conscious of ‘emperors new clothes’ when it comes to coffee and tasting notes, and I tend to think if you see a flavour note of something mad like ‘candied rhubarb wrapped in a fig roll that’s then been gently laced in liquorice snap under the light of a full moon’, then chances are you’ll look for that flavour in the coffee, even if it is a little absurd and probably doesn’t taste like that.⁣
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After saying all that....I really do think this bean is something else, I've never tasted coffee this good. An incredibly silky caramel body, sweet peach and rhubarb, and the best aroma while brewing (especially filter). I know the price is a little steep compared to our other offerings, I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the price of the green bean... but I think its a case of a little bit of something brilliant goes a long way, and El Paraiso is definitely a little bit of coffee heaven. On the webshop now.

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In with the new

I’m never sure if people read the news sections on websites (I know I don’t!) but I feel it’s probably best to start as I mean to go on and keep this updated. In that spirit, welcome to our new website! We first started work on the old website about 5 years ago and it was beginning to feel a little dated and in need of a refresh, so here we go. If you do come across any issues I’d be very grateful of a heads up, other than that we’ve added a few non bean items on the shop for home brewing and also stock Standart for all the hardcore coffee coffee nerds among us.

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We’ve also had a few new beans land this week, both fresh crop Peru, one macerated natural and the other natural, both excellent. The macerated natural from Elvis Tineo Rafael has a load of bold jammy flavours in the cup, excellent on filter but also translating across very well as espresso - It’s also the strangest smelling green bean I’ve ever had, a natural always has a tropical funk smell to it when green, but this is something else, so pungent.

The other from Edilberto Sanchez is delicious (maybe my favourite) with bright strawberry on filter. I took a bit of a gamble on this bean, normally I’d get in a heap of samples from our importer and pick beans based on those cuppings, on this occasion I noticed the bean land in the UK, it had a high SCA score and was quickly selling out in a matter of days so decided to take a blind gamble on a sack of it - This is not the way to pick beans! But worth it this time.

Other than that stay tuned for an extra special release in the next week or two, we have something coming in that is VERY special.

Cheers,

Joel

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