In around a month’s time we’ll be offering a coffee from Finca Nazareth, a farm in the Ahuachapan region of El Salvador. This particular coffee was processed at Finca El Carmen and when we recently met the owner, Fernando Alfaro, we quizzed him a little more on the processing method.
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Fernando Alfaro Visits Carvetii
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…
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!
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.
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…
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.
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…
Then and Now (Part 2)
We started our roasting business five years ago and in the intervening years have developed our roasting to ensure our standards keep growing
Then And Now (Part 1)
Five years ago to this month we were roasting our very first espresso blend, a 60:40 mix of Fazenda Passeio from Brazil and Cafetalera Herbazú from Costa Rica. I remember launching it to an unsuspecting Cumbrian population and the initial positive, but surprised, feedback we received. So many people we unaware that coffee could produce…
Complain or Not Complain?
On a recent visit to a coffee shop I was served a disappointing drink. Should I reluctantly accept the coffees or complain and ask for them to be made again?
Cup of Excellence
April will be an exciting month for us at Carvetii: we have just committed to our first Cup of Excellence coffee and we are expecting delivery at the end of March. This is the first of a number of small lot coffees we’ll be exploring and making available in 2016. The Cup of…
Updates to our Website
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been making a few changes to our website, which will make ordering (and receiving) our coffee a little bit easier. Firstly we’ve changed the packaging we use for our online orders. Our new bags have a thinner profile, allowing them to fit through most letterboxes. They also have…