Roasting Plant are a unique team of roasters with an equally unique claim to fame: they are the only coffee retailer to roast in every store. This particular badge of honour comes about in part thanks to the innovation of founder Mike Caswell and his inventions, so we spoke to him about his work and the story of Roasting Plant. How did you get started in the coffee business? Caswell started working for Coffee Connection when he was just out of college. After an early career in engineering and management consultancy, he was recruited into Starbucks after they bought CC on the basis of his …
Top Craft Coffee Roasters
Maude Coffee – Featured Roaster
Maude Coffee is a specialty micro-roaster focused on high-quality and single-origin coffees, all whilst ensuring a sustainable livelihood for the coffee producers at origin. How it started Matthew Van Elkan is the mastermind behind Maude Coffee, having started the business in 2014. He had worked as a barista for several years, studying the complexity of the coffee bean and learning from as many industry professionals as possible. Through this, he realised that there was a quality of coffee that simply wasn’t being achieved - or at the very least, it wasn’t being shared with consumers. His …
Heart & Graft – Featured Roaster
Heart & Graft is an independent coffee roaster founded by James Guard and Sean Fowler in 2012. James was fed up with the complete lack of unique, specialty coffee in his home city of Manchester, so he started up The Coffee Circle - a humble setup consisting of small quantities of coffee, a garage roaster, and an incredible amount of dedication. Working as a barista on the side, he began to learn about the complex craft of roasting. Q Grader Sean was the youngest person in the country to become a Q Grader, trained and licensed by the Coffee Quality Institute. He had worked as an assistant …
Machina – Featured Roaster
Starting out as a coffee-equipment retailer in 2013, since 2017 Machina has become known from Scotland to coffee-houses across Europe as a roaster. They also showcase their single-origin and blended espresso roasts at their coffee bar in Edinburgh, where they also supply barista and brew kits, as well as Inker POR cups and other porcelain. …
Crosby Coffee – Featured Roaster
Crosby Coffee has become the go-to destination for Liverpool coffee lovers over the past few years. They are proud to roast delicious coffee in their beloved home town of Crosby, Liverpool, right next door to their beautiful coffee shop. At Crosby Coffee, they serve all the latest coffee creations and offer the local community something different upon each visit. Not only do they serve their customers through their local coffee shop, but they also have a shop online where you can buy their coffees, and if you are a shop that needs beans, they sell wholesale as well. Interview …
Horsham Coffee Roaster – Featured Roaster
Horsham Coffee Roaster - if you want a coffee roaster who not only sources some of the best coffee out there but also takes to heart the importance behind the origin of the growth of it as well, then look no further than Horsham Coffee Roaster. They are fanatical about the quality of their coffee, and this obsession goes from the green coffee they purchase right through to the final cup. How it All Started In 2012, finding coffee roasters in the Sussex area who created speciality coffee was difficult. Because of this, Bradley and Amelia Steenkamp of Horsham Coffee Roaster decided to change …
