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Stone a Crow

New Espresso Blend Launched - This is an intense juicy sweet zest fest - the acidity is way up front but really very pleasing - orange, pear drop and Granny Smith apple bite.

Iced or cold brewed coffee

Iced or cold brewed coffee Iced coffee can be a puzzling ritual, cold brewed coffee more so. 

PTC

This is interesting – we were playing around today with bitter compound called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide).

Virginia McKenna to roast new Born Free espresso blend.

We may be a small company, but we are grown up enough to realise that our business affects communities at both ends of the coffee bean supply chain. This is why since year dot our commercial strategy has been closely entwined with our ethical and sustainable policy. 

New roaster seems at home

The new roaster seems at home. We have now been roasting on our new Loring for just two days – no time at all and needless to say we still have lots to learn so at present we are just following our old Probat roast profiles - but the results on the Loring when roasting to the same profile is remarkable: in fact, outstanding.