SOURCING
As with any ingredient we use, we deeply care about where it came from, how it was grown, its quality, its environmental impact and, most importantly, how all the people involved have been treated.
We spend a long time
choosing each coffee we buy. Before any bean gets to us we have
already tasted it a number of times and have heard it's story from
the farm where it was grown. We work with a few different importers
to achieve this but one day hope to be buying enough coffee that we
can work directly and develop relationships with the farmers who take
such care to grow the beans.
ROASTING
From a distance, roasting may seem a little like a dark art but it is the perfect marriage of a sensual and data driven approach. Each coffee has its own roasting profile. This is essentially how the coffee gets from room temperature to somewhere just over 200°C. The end temperature, and how it gets there in terms of time and speed of roasting at all parts of the roast, make a big difference to how the coffee tastes.
After each carefully
managed roast, that lasts about 10 minutes, each coffee is analysed to
check if it has been roasted exactly how it was intended to be and is
tasted to make sure the sensory aspects are perfect. Then it is time
to pack it up so you can enjoy it at home or in our cafés.
BREWING
You may have worked out by now that if we do something, we go all out with it, so our attention to detail does not stop at sourcing and roasting!
When we brew, everything is just as obsessed over. Every grind size is considered and picked, every coffee dose and amount of water is weighed and everything is timed. With about 100 man hours going into each cup of coffee, we owe it to ourselves and everyone who came before us in the coffee's chain to make it as best as we can! Have a look at our brew guides below for a few ways to make some delicious coffee at home.
