This week we have an exciting visitor at our Roastery. Fernando Alfaro, the owner of Finca El Carmen will be visiting the U.K. next week and will be spending the day with us as part of his itinerary. We’ve used coffee from this particular farm for a couple of years and in 2016 coffee from…
Author: Gareth Kemble
Owner and co-founder of Carvetii Coffee Limited
Sipi Falls
Sipi Falls is our first coffee from Uganda, a region traditionally associated with low grade robusta. This particular coffee is grown in the east of the country in an area bordering Kenya.
Ground Coffee: The Results
We set about trying to determine whether there was any merit in selling ground coffee to our customers. The results, presented here, speak for themselves!
Finca El Chocho
Finca El Chocho is a very easy drinking, smooth coffee from the Antioquia region of Colombia. We released this coffee at the end of April so it should be avaialble throughout May.
Ground Coffee
We’ve never sold our coffee in ground form, a principle we’ve adhered to since we opened our Roastery in 2011. There are a number of reasons for this approach, one of which we explore in this article.
Musasa Dukunde Kawa Nkara
One of our favourite origins, Rwanda, produces some amazing coffees. This year we’ve picked up this must drink coffee from the Nkara washing station.
Pop-Up Coffee Shop: Friday 14th April
Monday 10th April sees the start of UK Coffee Week, a period of fundraising in the coffee industry to raise funds for Project Waterfall. We’ll be doing our bit at Carvetii by running a pop-up coffee shop from our new Roastery on Friday 14th April. A study1 in 2003 found that to produce a standard…
Testing, Testing
We always enjoy testing new equipment at our Roastery. Some of it passes the ‘Carvetii Test’ and we’ll happily recommend it to our customers. Here’s some of the stuff we currently have on test.
Déjà Vu
After five years of roasting coffee from our small unit outside Cockermouth, we’ll be moving our business next month to bigger and better premises.
On the up
You can expect the price of a cup of coffee to increase in the coming weeks. This article looks at some of the factors which influence the price and explains why we shouldn’t begrudge this increase.
Humble Pie
Over the past few years we’ve roasted coffee from many countries but there are a few notable exceptions. We need to source coffees which fit our roast style, and we tend to work with coffees we enjoy drinking oursleves. However, every once in a while our prejudices are challenged . . .
The Cost of a Cup of Coffee
I recently watched a food related programme on TV which had a focus on the coffee scene in the U.K. As part of the programme, the cost of producing a cup of coffee was calculated along with the amount of profit for the business. I often have discussions with local coffee shop owners with regards…