We had heard about Park Bikeworks a few weeks earlier from Twitter and were keen to try it out. Its free bike parking, showers, cafe, good food using local and seasonal ingredients, bike servicing, sports injury clinic, and cycling as a way of life all under one roof, sounded like our sort of place and the … Read more
Decaffeinated coffee has a bad rep. Part of coffee’s delight is the caffeine, a powerful drug that wakes us up in the morning and keeps us awake when working to deadlines and the to-do list is growing. The coffee plant is naturally caffeinated. Best guesses as to why plants have caffeine is to protect it … Read more
This week’s coffee club beans are from Costa Rica Costa Rica, Hermosa SHB, Dota, Tarrazu. Micro lots That gum you like is going to come back in style This week for the Roasting House it has been about the reboot. We were excited to learn a favourite show of ours, Twin Peaks is coming back … Read more
After flirting with the idea of offering ground coffee in 2013, we decided after a small trial run not to do so. Although this made anti-business sense on paper as the pre-ground market is bigger than whole bean, and being a new business where every new sale mattered (and still does), this might seem like … Read more
We don’t and will never bulk out our coffee with other substances Something that has recently caught our attention here at The Roasting House is ‘coffee bulking’. Coffee bulking is when coffee suppliers bulk out coffee with cheaper substances. These include but aren’t limited to soil, twigs, corn, flour and anything you could imagine reasonably hiding … Read more
A fresh bag of coffee is now The Roasting House For a while now we have been thinking of changing our name. Although we’re a fan of the descriptive and literal names, while A Fresh Bag of Coffee does say what we do, it is a bit of a mouthful to say and not the … Read more
Yellow Jersey offers for July 2014 If you know anything else about us other than selling coffee, it is probably that we love cycling. So of course we are very excited to see the world’s top cycling event starting on Sunday 5th July once again on UK shores and in roaster Adam’s home county of … Read more
Guatemala Strictly Hard Bean that has been decaffeinated by Swiss Water who are the leading name in decaff specialty coffee beans. Swiss Water remove caffeine not by chemicals but a process of washing and filtering. Roasting these beans were interesting for us. It’s the first time we’ve ever tried decaffeinated; roasting only suits Viennese (dark) … Read more
Song came on and couldn’t help thinking it could be adopted to coffee chain-goer. To the tune of The Wild Rover. About a boy who will never play the chain-goer again. And it’s no, nay, neverNo, nay, never, no moreWill I play the chain-goer No, never, no more I’ve been chain-goer for many the yearsAnd … Read more