Spring is always an exciting time, we have eaten our fill of Easter eggs, the new crop coffees from South America are arriving, and we are starting to taste and make selections from the Central American crop too. Our last shipment from the Brazilian crop has arrived, cleared customs, and been unloaded at the warehouse. Fazenda Sertão and Fazenda Santa … Continue reading
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We are delighted to have Chocolarder chocolate eggs on our counter for Easter. The Cornish Honeycomb is a milk chocolate egg with honey from Cornish beekeeper Matt Pitt, and the Virunga is a dark chocolate egg with cacao from the Femmes Virunga Cooperative in Eastern Congo. We have been fans of Chocolarder for a few years now and while we still haven’t managed to get … Continue reading
Last month we had the delight of hosting Lisanne Oonk from Cultivar Coffees (the exporter we work with in Peru) at our roastery. We spent the day with Lisanne, chatting all things coffee, checking out our roasting site and spending time in our shops at Covent Garden and Borough Market. It was a super day which ended in a large … Continue reading
Did you dust off last year’s resolutions and decide to give them another whirl? Or are you a non-believer in the power of the new beginning and it is just life as usual? Whatever the case, Happy New Year and may 2024 be full of coffee you enjoy. At Monmouth we have recovered from the Christmas mayhem and excess and … Continue reading
Our Annual project has been a few years in the making. Over the past few decades, we have produced copious paper newsletters that went from a one-sheet simple price list with tasting notes, to a full country list and origin profiles as we found ourselves with more to say. The one sheet expanded to some five or six double sided … Continue reading
It has been a busy few months and we have an exciting Christmas coming up. Let’s get into it with our traditional counter round-up. Regular readers will know that we begin with our most balanced coffee on the counter and this year it is no surprise that Malacara A (El Salvador) continues to run with that mantle. This is a terrific coffee if … Continue reading