New Ground creates delicious, expertly ground coffee which has been carefully selected from small-scale farms around the world. Their mission is to become a leading player in European coffee, along with creating hundreds of opportunities for ex-offenders and helping to change policies in the criminal justice system. They believe that coffee can go far beyond the cup - and this is why they give some of the most overlooked people in society a new beginning. Revolutionary Coffee Business When New Ground realised that prisoners are much more likely to re-offend after release if they are …
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Roasting Plant — Featured Roaster
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 …
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 …
14 Unique Coffee Gifts for Valentines
Shopping for that special Man in your life who just so happens to love coffee? Whether you live with him or are miles away, a coffee lover will always appreciate a coffee-related gift with a difference. …
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. …