It was a dream.   It sounds a little bit corny but it was a true coming of age experience. What I mean by this is for so long coffee has been a passion. It was a hobby before the idea of a business was even imagined. For a long time, I have been fascinated by everything coffee; I have read, watched and listened to so many people talk about coffee production, but there is no replacement for actually doing. I have always described myself as someone who learns by touching, tasting doing all of the sensory style learning. Being...

Decaf – known to many as the outcast coffee in the coffee world and often ordered in a whispered voice, questioned if it is even available or followed with “is that a bad word in here?” Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s not. It is important to understand that decaf beans are the same as regular beans – they have just been through a process to remove the caffeine. Caffeine itself which was discovered in 1819 and is known for stimulating the brain, making us more alert. It is this effect which makes many people love drinking coffee...

Last year we set out on trying to write chapter two of our story. A narrative which takes us away from artisan coffee company and into a coffee brand. During this process, my personal interest surrounding recycling and carbon emissions grew and I felt it important to integrate the two. We decided that as an SME, we would try to become carbon neutral by the end of 2022. There is a lot more to this story, but the short version is…‘we are learning a lot!’   When I first started roasting coffee, I never thought it would become a business....

I started drinking coffee around the age of 18. Why? Because my friends did and I didn't want to order a hot chocolate when we went to a cafe, obviously. From here I quickly started to develop a taste for coffee and increased my consumption at home with a cafetiere. Using the cafetiere was my introduction to fresh coffee. I would try different varieties, different strengths, different roasts but all bought from the supermarket. Now, I'm not saying that all supermarket coffee is bad...but if you go back 10+ years to when I was buying it, it definitely wasn't the...