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Coffees for sale: House blend and single origins
Every day at our roastery in Kemp Town and our St James's Street coffee house, we roast fine arabica coffees on our (red) roasters and chalk up the roasting date on the blackboard in the cafe.  You can order a cafetière and sample any of them on the premises. As well as our renowned House Blend, below you will find a selection of single origins from growers around the world who believe that quality is the key to sustainability.  To read more about ethical sourcing of the green beans please go to the 'About Coffee' tab.
    All our coffees are available, whole bean or ground, in 125g, 250g, 500g, 1kg or 2.5kg bags with a one-way valve to keep them fresh.  To taste coffee beans at their best, they should be left to develop in the bag for two to three days after roasting.  Paul Stephens, head coffee roaster, is chiefly responsible for their selection.  Paul was the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe's UK coffee tasting champion in 2010 and uniquely, has always been placed in the top four in this 
 
House blend and single origins
   
exacting competition.  Paul was also a member of the winning UK team in an international coffee competition held last year in Russia. He writes on the coffees' different characteristics below.  The prices quoted below are for retail, wholesale prices are available on application. Please call 01273 686668 or send us a message via the contact page.

HOUSE BLEND 125g retail £2.50
Medium-dark roast
Throughout the year, as crops come and go, we select the best single origin coffees for our House Blend, used every 
day
in the coffee house to make a sweet and balanced espresso.  They are individually roasted to bring out their unique character before being blended to a harmonious whole.  The blend, which uses 100 per cent arabica beans, is currently composed of Brazil Samambaia, Nicaragua Cesar Julio Zuniga (Nueva Segovia) and El Salvador Finca El Talapo.  Paul says: "In a cafetière or through a filter you will get a really smooth cup with full body and a mellow chocolate/dried vine fruit flavour."

BRAZIL 125g retail £4.50 New!
Cup of Excellence, Fazenda Serra Dos Crioulos
Light roast
This season's coffee was placed 9th in the Brazil 2012 Cup of Excellence Contest, having been placed 7th and 9th twice in the last eight years.  The harvest of the beans is selective, transporting them four times per day to processing areas and pulping them, avoiding the start of fermentation.  After pulping the beans are spread on concrete drying patios and then removed to rest boxes to enhance the quality of the coffee.

Medium body, apricot and floral aroma, delicate acidity.

BOLIVIA 125g retail £2.90 New!
Angel Mamani Mamani
Light roast
This coffee was produced by Angel Mamani and his wife Gregoria Yujra Lopez, in the remote 'colonia' of San Ignacio in the lush Caranavi region.  The couple bought their 10 hectare plot San Ignacio in 2002.  Around 4.5 hectares of the farm are now planted with a mix of Caturra and Typica varietals, under the shade of native trees, at an altitude of 1490 metres.  Their traditional production methods are certified organic.

Angel and Gregoria used to depend on the local market to sell their coffee, meaning low prices and little reliability.  Today they can sell their top grade coffees for much higher prices to Agricafe who process speciality lots at their Buena Vista wet mill.  The ripe cherries are picked by hand and transported to Buena Vista where they are pulped on the same day.  This particular lot was fermented for 18 hours, washed and dried in the sun on drying beds.

The first thing you notice with this coffee is the sweetness of molasses and fig, followed by a wonderful citrus aroma and full creamy body.

COLOMBIA 125g retail £2.40 New!
Finca La Paz
Light-medium roast
Jose Escobar is responsible for cultivating 10,000 coffee trees in little more than three hectares of Finca La Paz.  The ripe coffee cherries are picked every 15 days, de-pulped that evening and then naturally fermented.  Mockingbirds, canaries and guacharos live in the surrounding mountains and the coffee lots are bordered by a small clean creek.

Medium-bodied with a fruity acidity and tastes of grapefruit, pineapple and vanilla.

GUATEMALA 125g retail £4.50 
Cup of Excellence, Finca Carmona, Antigua
Light roast
Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Carmona farm, on the road to San Juan del Obispo, Sacatapequez, Antigua, is owned by Lucia Zelaya de Asensio.  The original farm, Santa Clara, was founded by Sra, Zelaya's great grandfather, in 1908, and passed down through the generations until three years ago when it was divided and Lucia took on La Soledad.

Standing at 1860 metres above sea level, the rich soil, the microclimate and the careful tending of shade trees lend character.  Processing is in wet mills and the coffee is sun-dried.    

We strongly recommend this excellent coffee, bright and floral with raspberry notes.

HONDURAS 125g retail £2.80
Finca Los Vaqueritos
Light roast
After the Zavala Armijo family, who had farmed in the village of Locomapa in the north western highlands for over fifty years, suffered in 1998 the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, they turned, in 2001 to coffee farming. In 2005 Enrique Zavala was joined by his son Edwin, keen to focus on improving quality. In 2006 their first wet mill was installed. 
Today, 24.67 hectares of Finca Los Vaqueritos are planted with Catui and Bourbon varietals, much of them growing in the shade of natural forest providing habitat for native animal, insect and bird species. The family’s enthusiastic and continuing process of investment and improvement is evidenced by this coffee.

Sweet and juicy with some floral notes, tangerine, raspberry acidity.

INDIA 125g retail £2.40 New!
Plantation Peaberry Bold
Medium roast
1000 metres above sea level in the highlands of southern India, Faiz Moosakutty's Bibi Plantation has been in the family since 1960.  Faiz took over in 1990 and is replanting the whole estate, aiming to create a model coffee farm.  The estate already produces some of the region's finest beans.  The coffee is grown in the shade of indigenous silver oaks, jungle figs and rosewood trees, which provide habitat for a vast array of bird and insect life, and the occasional elephant.

Juicy, full-bodied, with cherry tobacco notes.  Makes a good single espresso.


INDIA 125g retail £2.40
Monsoon Malabar
Medium-dark roast
‘Monsooned’ coffee has been warehoused in an open-sided structure, protected from the rain whilst being exposed to moist tropical air. 

This process was developed to mimic the effects of long sea voyages and results in a mellower, richer taste. Heavily bodied, rich and syrupy with hints of caramel and a nutty aroma. Perfect for after dinner or as an intense espresso.


INDONESIA 125g retail £2.80
Sumatra Wahana Estate natural 
Medium roast
The Wahana estate was started in 2005 in Sumatra's Northern Sidikalang district.  The estate grows a large number of distinct varietals including some local hybrids such as Rasuna.  The estate is carefully managed and also boasts an impressive nursery which supplies seedlings for the estate and free seeds for the local coffee-growing community.
 
    

The estate produces coffees using washed, semi-washed and natural processing methods, Our coffee is produced using natural processes.  This means the coffee beans are left inside the cherry until they dry, taking on more sugars and fruit flavours.  This makes the beans more unpredictable than washed coffees but if processed carefully, wonderfully exotic, interesting flavours can be produced.

This coffee is rich and wild with notes of ripe blackberry, rum and banana.

RWANDA  125g retail £2.80
Musasa Cooperative
Light-medium roast
The Dukundekawa Musasa Cooperative lies high in Rwanda’s rugged north west at around 1800m. Rwanda’s coffee industry has become very successful in the last decade with the help of development programs in the wake of the 1994 genocide.

Musasa is one of the largest cooperatives in Rwanda with over 1800 members. Most of these 
members own less than a hectare of land but by combining their harvests and processing
the cherries centrally, the farmers can sell for a higher price than before when they had to
sell to a middleman.

The processing at Musasa is impeccable with rigorous quality control and lot traceability.
The result is a truly outstanding coffee. The flavour in the cup is clean, juicy and crisp with
notes of Clementine, bergamot and orange blossom.


Opening Times:
7.00 am to 7.00pm Monday to Saturday
8.00am to 6.30pm on Sunday
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