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A dark brew bar with a kettle, glass drippers and a scale under a single warm light
20°C
drum · cold

Roast is a temperature, not a vibe.

Every bag says the number it was dropped at.Twelve-kilo drum, gas, a probe in the bean mass. Three drop temperatures, printed on the front. Nothing called "medium".

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01 · One roast, 10 minutes 10 seconds

The curve is the recipe.

0:004:008:4010:10 DryingMaillardFirst crack
20°0:00
Charge.Beans in at 20°, drum at 200°. The probe drops as the beans steal the heat. The turning point is the first number we write down.
A close pile of roasted coffee beans, dark and glossy
02 · Three drops

Three temperatures. No adjectives.

198°
Dropped one minute after first crack

Bright, acidic, tea-like body. For the pour-over. Two of our five beans are roasted here.

205°
Dropped ninety seconds after first crack

Sweetness fully developed, acidity held. Works in every brewer. Most of what we sell.

212°
Dropped at the start of second crack

Oils just surfacing. Bitter-sweet, heavy. For espresso and milk. We stop before the smoke does the roasting.

A cup of black coffee with roasted beans falling into it against a dark background
Kiln · HuilaColombia · washed
Dropped 205 °C · 10:10
Roasted Tue 02 Sep
Best from day 7

The bag says the number. And the date.

Not "roasted fresh". A date. Not "medium". A temperature. If you know those two things you know more about the coffee than most tasting notes will tell you.

Beans · this month

Five beans. Five numbers.

We buy from four farms and one co-operative, the same ones each year where the crop allows. Every bean is roasted at the temperature it tasted best at on the sample roaster, and that's the one printed on the bag.

198°
GedebEthiopia · natural
Blueberry, black tea. Dropped early because anything later kills the fruit.
£12.50 / 250g
198°
Kirinyaga AAKenya · washed
Blackcurrant, sharp, long. The acid is the point.
£13 / 250g
205°
HuilaColombia · washed
Caramel, red apple. The house coffee. Works in everything you own.
£11 / 250g
205°
Santa AnaEl Salvador · honey
Brown sugar, plum. Quiet acidity. Our favourite for the moka pot.
£11.50 / 250g
212°
CerradoBrazil · pulped natural
Cocoa, hazelnut, heavy. Espresso, milk, mornings.
£10.50 / 250g
Subscription

Roasted Tuesday. Posted Wednesday.

One bag or three, every fortnight or every month. Pick a temperature and we pick the bean; or pick the bean and we'll tell you the temperature.

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Pick a number.198, 205 or 212. Or "surprise me", which means 205 with occasional detours.
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Pick a rhythm.250g every two weeks is one cup a day. 1kg a month is a household. Pause from your phone any time.
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Roasted to order.We roast Tuesday morning for the week's subscriptions. Rested overnight, posted Wednesday, with you Thursday.
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£11 to £13 a bag. Post included.The same price as the shop. Subscribers just get it first.
Drum
12 kg

Cast iron drum, gas burner, built in 1994 and rebuilt by us twice. It has opinions about humidity.

Batches a week
38

Tuesday and Friday. Each one logged, curve saved, cupped the next morning.

Probe
1 s

Bean-mass temperature read every second. The curve on the screen is the curve you scrolled through above.

Roasting since
2017

Railway arch, two people, one drum. Still all three.

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Pick a number. We roast Tuesday, you have it Thursday. If it's wrong for you, tell us the brewer you use and we'll send a different number free.

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