Green bean arrives
Lots land in 60kg sacks, already cupped and scored at origin. The sack label stays on the wall, so we can tell you the farm, the altitude and who grew it.
Roasted in-house, on a schedule you can read
Small-batch coffee. Roasted for this week.
One drum, two roast days a week and a printed timetable on the wall. If it is on the list it is on the shelf, and if it is not we will tell you when it will be.
- Roasted Mondays and Thursdays
- Single-origin, one farm at a time
- Cupping table open on Tuesdays
- Bagged the day it goes on the shelf
How a bag gets made
Green bean to bag in four steps
No blend book and no mystery. This is the whole route a coffee takes through the roastery, from the sack in the loading bay to the date stamp on your bag.
Roast day
A 12kg drum, four to five batches, one log sheet each. First crack to drop is decided by ear and by taste, not by a timer.
Rest and degas
Five to seven days in the valve bag before it reaches the shelf. Filter wants the full week; espresso is at its best from day seven.
Weigh, bag, stamp
Weighed to the gram into 250g and 1kg valve bags, stamped with the roast day and stamped again with the farm it came from.
This week at the roastery
Roast days, cuppings and bagging windows
Everything below happens in the room behind the bar, and most of it you are welcome to watch. Only the cupping table needs your name on the list.
Packing
Bagging and dispatch window
Weights, valve bags, labels, courier. Orders placed the night before are bagged by ten and out the same day.
Workshop
Espresso clinic: dial in your grinder
Bring your own grinder or use ours. Four people a session, your name on the list at the bar or by email.
Roasting
Single-origin roast day
Two origins on the drum. The log sheets and the green sacks are on the bench, and we will happily talk you through a roast curve.
Delivery
Green bean intake
The week’s sacks come off the pallet, get weighed in and are stacked by farm. Good morning to watch if you like paperwork.
Tasting
Cupping table, open session
Six cups, spoons for everyone, water, no charge. Ten seats and the list goes up at the bar on the morning.
On the shelf from Friday
This week: Finca La Esperanza washed, 1,750m
Picked in June, landed in September, roasted on Monday and bagged on Wednesday. Cocoa, cooked plum and a long sweet finish — the sweetest thing on the bench this week.
When the sack is empty the lot comes off the shelf, and the next one is whatever cupped best at the importer in August.
On the shelf now
Three roasts, three different jobs
Same drum, three drop points. Pick by how you brew rather than by what sounds strongest.
Light · filter
Bright and floral
Dropped early, still cinnamon brown. Jasmine, lemon and stone fruit, best as filter or cold brew. There is not much body in it — in a flat white it tastes thin.
Medium · both
Balanced and sweet
The house roast and the safe answer. Milk chocolate, hazelnut, brown sugar, and it holds up with or without milk. Buy this one if the cupboard only has room for one bag.
Dark · espresso
Deep and chocolatey
Run long for bittersweet cocoa and molasses. Built for espresso and milk; brewed as filter it turns smoky if you push the ratio.
Where it comes from
One hillside, one harvest, one sack
We buy a single lot from a single farm at a time and keep the paperwork that comes with it. These are the photographs and the numbers that arrived with the last shipment — we roast what we can name.
Ways to buy
Three ways in, and what each one costs you
The cheap way is not the flexible way and the flexible way is not the cheap way. Here is the honest version of all three, including what you give up.
One-off
250g bag off the shelf
No commitment$16per 250g bagThe cheapest way to try something new, and you can walk in and buy it this afternoon. The catch: you take whatever was roasted that week, so the lot you loved may be gone by the time you come back.1kg of the house roast
Best value single bag$52per 1kg bagThe same roast every week, so no surprises and a better price per gram. Only worth it if a kilogram is realistic before the flavour fades — roughly six weeks from the roast date.
Standing order
250g every week
Save 15%$13.50per deliveryThe best price we can do on a small bag, delivered on your roast day. It is a standing order: four deliveries minimum before you can change the roast, and it is the roast we are on that week.Two bags a month
Most popular$26per monthThe same deal, sized for a two-cup-a-day kitchen, and easier to keep up with than the weekly bag. You still take the week’s roast; swap the grind or pause with a week’s notice.
Wholesale
5kg sacks, roasted to your recipe
Minimum 5kg$38per kgCheapest per kilo by a distance, and we roast to your own profile. It needs a standing order, a 5kg monthly minimum, 30-day terms and a Tuesday slot for collection or delivery.
Regulars and neighbours
What people actually say
Six notes from the counter book, from people who come back. None of them are about the room, because the room is a bench and a drum.
I started on two bags a month in March and I have not bought supermarket coffee since. The bag is on the step before I am out of bed.
Marta L. Standing order
They talked me out of the dark roast for my machine and put me on the medium instead. Annoying at the time, better cup. Four stars because I still cannot steam milk.
Devon R. Home espresso
Turned up on my own expecting to feel like an idiot and ended up arguing about acidity for an hour. Now I bring my brother.
Nobody in particular Tuesday cupping
Five kilos a month, roasted for our machine, and the invoice is one line. Nobody in the office has complained about the coffee, which for this office is a record.
Priya N. Office account
Two flat whites and a bag of whatever is new, every Saturday since they opened. Best seat in the place is the one by the drum.
Tom and Ellen Saturday regulars
The beans arrived late, but they rang me before I had noticed and took the delivery off the bill. The coffee was excellent and the timing was not.
Ruth A. Gift order
Beans, wholesale, or a seat at the table
Tell us what you need
A bag put aside, a standing order, a wholesale account or a seat at Tuesday’s cupping. One of us reads this every morning.