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  • Cleaning up our act (well, website)

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    Recently we wrote about discovering our website is very heavy and as a result, had a big carbon footprint. We’ve been doing some work to lighten it up, changing the design and reducing unnecessary features and we’re very happy to say it’s much better now. It’s gone from being dirtier than 56% of websites tested…

  • Bigger isn’t better for our small business

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    When you have a small business there is a constant pressure for growth. People with zero experience in business will, upon hearing you have a small business, start offering advice on how to grow. Stories of small businesses that have grown to take on more contracts and more staff are celebrated, and there are thousands…

  • Fazenda Santa Barbara, Brazil

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    From the biggest of the beans to the smallest, this week our coffee comes from Brazil, land of small, soft coffee beans. Although Brazil has high altitude growing regions, they’re not quite as high as other coffee producing countries and so coffee from Brazil grows faster, producing smaller beans which aren’t as dense. This means…

  • Bigger bag sizes and increased postage costs

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    Up until now we’ve used 200g for the practical reason of it fitting Royal Mail large letter size. However we recently switched to using more rigid cardboard mailers instead of brown paper for posting our coffee. These mailers offer much better protection for the coffee but they pushed us in to the next postal bracket.…

  • 25% off Daterra Brazilian coffee beans

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    New coffee harvests coming in means we’ve decided to have a sale on some of our current coffee beans to make some room. We’re offering 25% off our Daterra Brazilian coffee beans, which are some of our most popular coffees. To claim the discount, use voucher code Daterra25 at checkout. The coffee beans are:

  • Make the leap from instant to specialty coffee for only 32p per cup

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    We meet a lot of people who are interested in what we do and like coffee but only have instant at work or at home. A lot even apologise for drinking it – you don’t have to, really. We drank instant once upon a time and if you are from the UK instant was probably…

  • UK Coffee Week deal – get 50% off your first custom subscription delivery

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    To celebrate UK Coffee Week, we’re offering 50% off your first custom coffee subscription delivery when you sign up before the end of Sunday 10th May 2015 using voucher code UKCoffeeWeek Our build your own coffee subscription allows you to create the perfect subscription package for your preferred taste and brewing style. You can be…

  • Four years as a trade coffee buyer – what I’ve learned

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    When I started roasting in 2011 my knowledge of coffee wasn’t what it is today. I learn more everyday about coffee and will be the first to admit I don’t know it all because nobody does. However, I have noticed a slow change in how we buy coffee compared to those early days when I…