Country of origin: Rwanda Farm: 230 smallholder farmers Owner/Washing Station: Musasa Dukunde Kawa Cooperative Processing: Natural Altitude: 1880 – 2002 Meters above sea level Varietal: 100% Red Bourbon May’s Roaster’s choice has arrived! This month, we’re featuring a naturally processed coffee from the Musasa Ruli Washing station in Rwanda, completing a double header from this remarkable coffee producing region….
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Episode 2: Coffee with Angharad MacDonald, owner and Head Roaster at Carvetii Coffee
The success of Carvetii Coffee is very much down to the quality of the coffee we roast and the person responsible for this is Angharad, owner and Head Roaster. In this episode we get to listen in as Angharad roasts a brand new coffee, Serra do Cabral from Brazil, we find out about her favourite…
Podcast: Coffee with Stephen Kidd, owner of The Moon & Sixpence
In this episode we talk to Stephen Kidd, owner of The Moon & Sixpence in Cockermouth. 2020 was an interesting year for Stephen! It began with a trip to Costa Rica where he experienced life on a coffee farm, he was then faced with the challenge of reshaping his business due to lockdown and on…
More ways to buy
We are always looking for ways to make it easier to buy our coffee, tea and hot chocolate. We’ve always preferred it if you but from one of the cafes or shops we supply. In this way you support more than one business. If that isn’t an option then you now have three ways to…
A Name Change
This week we are making some changes to the names of our espresso blends. Our Seasonal Espresso Blend will become Latitude Espresso. This will remain our flagship blend and allows us the latitude to utilise coffees we enjoy drinking. It will usually contain African components and will have more of a fruity flavour profile.This coffee…
Don’t expect it cheaper!
Yesterday saw the start of a six month long reduction in VAT for hospitality businesses, along with some attractions. Between 15th July 2020 and 12th January 2021 your local coffee shop will only need to charge VAT at 5% rather than the standard 20%. This is a much needed lifeline for the industry and a…
Being a Coffee Shop Customer (in the new normal)
This weekend many of our customers will be opening their doors to customers for the first time since late March. While it is a welcome relief to us all it is also going to be a worrying and challenging time. Somehow they will have to adhere to social distancing rules, protect the welfare of customers…
Herdwick Processed Coffee!
Inspired by the success of Kopi Luwak or ‘palm civet’ coffee, we set about creating something similar with one of Cumbria’s icons. Back in September we managed to arrange for 120kg of coffee cherries to be shipped over to our Roastery. Due to their perishable nature we were very anxious for their arrival but owing…
Decision Making
Like many other business owners up and down the country we are having to make tough decisions on an almost daily basis. Mark my words, whether closed or still trading in some way, business owners will not be able to switch off. Those who have spent years ‘living and breathing’ their businesses day in, day…
Where does our coffee come from?
When people meet us for the first time in our role as coffee roaster there are certain questions which inevitably crop up. The most notable of these questions are probably: “Where does your coffee come from?” “Do you travel to origin to visit the farms?” “In your coffee Fairtrade?” “Do you drink a lot of…
Getting the most from our coffee
We’ve put together a list of the most frequently asked questions about our coffee. If you have a question or query which we haven’t answered below, please feel free to get in touch using the form below. How quickly after roasting should I use your coffee? All our coffees are roasted fresh each week and…
Our new-look branding – embracing the mountains
We’ve recently rebranded our business using the mountains as the inspiration for our new look. Read more about how the mountains influence our coffee.