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October 2023 – On Blending

We are fortunate to have access to amazing single farm coffees that make wonderful cups of coffee. These coffees really highlight everything that goes into the cup from the seed selection, growing conditions, micro-climate, to the processing types. Each coffee has its own flavour profile, and this profile reveals itself in any brew method, which makes playing around with all the methods a lot of fun.

Roasters blend for many reasons. We are looking for a flavour profile that gives a balance between a structural base of heavy tones, a mid-level of acidity and sweetness, and floral-fruity notes to give it a bit of interest. There is no single coffee that can tick all these boxes and so we created the Monmouth Espresso. For the Organic Espresso that came later we wanted to showcase a different kind of flavour profile that has more floral and fruit notes with a more caramelised base.

In the Monmouth Espresso we use pulped-natural, yellow bourbon coffees from Brazil that work as the base of the blend. From there, we add traditional-washed varietals from Guatemala for the mid-level, and traditional-washed varietals from Colombia to provide the top notes. For the Organic Espresso, we use a traditional-washed Ethiopian coffee that gives all the fruit and floral notes one could wish for, and supplement this with a rotation of coffees from Costa Rica and Peru.

We roast both blends up to a medium-dark profile specifically for our espresso. Espresso is an exaggeration of flavour, and while any coffee can be made in any brew method, we are primarily looking for sweetness and to achieve this we take the development of the roast a bit further. We could roast a bit lighter to show more of the acidity, or a bit darker to have more bitterness from the roasting process, but really, we are looking for something that is just right, for us. We feel this brings out the best of the coffees and allows them to work together to create the blend profile.

In the next month or so, the new crop coffees will arrive from Brazil. Of these coffees many will go into the Monmouth Espresso. We expect different lots from around seven farms to be in the blend this year. At the end of this year, we will see the coffees from Nariño (Colombia) replace those from Huila, in the Monmouth Espresso. This happens around the same time that the corresponding single origin change happens on our counter. The coffees from Guatemala (usually four farms) follow each other along the year until the new crop arrives, and then the rotation starts again. You’ll find the names of all the coffees currently in the blends on the website and the coffee list in our shops, along with details of the coffees currently in the Organic Espresso.

Keep a look out for the farm changes, and if you have an espresso machine at home, play around making up your own blend. It is a lot of fun! And you might hit upon something that really tickles your tastebuds!

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September 2023 – Counter Change Up

Well, we have another month of a lot of changes happening on the coffee counter so here is a round up on recent occurrences, current goings on and future happenings. The new crops from Central America have arrived and we have already seen La Bugambilia (Guatemala), Las Gravilias and Telia – Herbazú (both Costa Rica) make […]

August 2023 – Financiers, biscuits and truffles

We have had a bit of a rearrange on our food counters so let’s get to it. First up is the financier. These perfectly sized, almond-flour cakes are French in origin and made for us by the Sally Clarke bakery. They are moreish little cakey bars flavoured with pistachio bits. A perfect little something to […]

July 2023 – Spa Terminus

We have some new neighbours at Spa Terminus.  Spa Terminus is where our roastery and offices are based. It consists of four sections of railway arches: Voyager, Spa, Discovery, Apollo and an annex, Dockley. We moved to this site along with our oldest, bestest, friends Neal’s Yard Dairy in 2018 but planning for this site […]

June 2023 – Recent Happenings

We’ve had a busy start to the spring with lots of happenings over the last few months! In April we were pleased to join Ecoffee Cup at their stand at the London Coffee Festival. The festival was on for four days at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, London. We joined Ecoffee Cup on the two […]

May 2023 – The End of an Era

This month we have the very sad news that our days of enjoying a Sally Clarke chocolate truffle with a coffee are coming to an end. We don’t know how long we have had the truffles on our counters – certainly more than the 20 years of our longest serving staff member. Unfortunately, the two […]

April 2023 – Notes from Kenya and Ethiopia

Last month we visited Kenya and Ethiopia. It was so wonderful to be back since our last visits pre-pandemic. Our first stop was a long overdue catch up with the Thiriku coffee growers in Nyeri; we started working with the Thiriku group in 2021 and over the last two years we have come to enjoy […]

March 2023 – A Year of Reusable

It has been a year already! Some of you will remember that this time last year we stopped using paper cups for takeaway coffees and went to reusable only. Some called the decision brave, and others called it stupid. We figure it was just something that we had to do and although we were nervous […]

February 2023 – Coffee Changes

Buckle up it’s going to be a bumpy ride! Not only have we had all the news about the coffee pods, but it’s also now February which means that even in the coldest part of our winter, one eye is on spring and who isn’t looking forward to that? Before we get there though, we […]

PODS!

Oh it’s news alright! We now have pods. Pods with our coffee, sourced and roasted by us, ground and packed for us by our lovely friends at Dualit. They are available now. We have La Piragua from Colombia and Malacara A from El Salvador. More will follow and there will be a decaf. Now for […]

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