This week
Kirinyaga AA, Kenya
Washed at Kiangoi Factory at 1,780 metres. Blackcurrant and cane sugar.
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Still Dark. Roasted at night, yours by seven. Single origin espresso.
Roasted at night. Yours by seven.
Single origin espresso from a small roaster that is awake before you are.
The one number that matters
Most coffee tells you when it expires. We tell you when it was born.
Roast date is the only figure on a bag worth reading. Coffee comes good around day four and holds until about day twenty. After that the oils flatten, the crema thins, and one morning it stops forming at all.
A supermarket bag carries a best before date eighteen months out. That is not a lie. It is just not a promise about flavour.
Try it yourself
Drag the dial. Watch what waiting does.
2
days since roast
Blackcurrant, cane sugar, a thick amber crema that holds a spoon mark.
At its peakThis week
Kirinyaga AA, Kenya
One origin at a time. When it runs out we move to the next one, which is why there has never been a menu to read in here.
€16
250 g, whole bean
Roasted the Tuesday after you order, posted Wednesday morning.
Ground when the order comes in, so tell us the machine.
- FarmKiangoi Factory
- Altitude1,780 m
- VarietalSL28, SL34
- ProcessWashed, 18h ferment
- RoastTuesday, 23:40
- NotesBlackcurrant, cane sugar
This week
Last week
Huila, Colombia
Nine days old, and we would rather say that than quietly sell it as new.
€11
€16
-31%
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Three weeks, three origins
A bag a week, posted the morning after each roast. You do not get to choose what turns up.
€45
€48
-6%
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Three days, start to cup
Nothing sits in a warehouse.
01
Roasted Tuesday night.
The drum runs from ten until two. Small batches, one origin, nobody watching a clock but us.
02
Shipped Wednesday.
Bagged warm, sealed with a one way valve, and out the door before the shop opens.
03
In your cup Thursday.
Day two from roast. Just short of the window where it gets good, so it keeps getting better on your counter.
What people say
Mostly about the staff, oddly.
I asked a stupid question about grind size and nobody made me feel stupid. That is the whole review.
Marta L.
First bag I have ever bought where the date printed on it was last week and not last year.
Tom R.
It is not cheap. I stopped caring about that somewhere in the second week.
Anna K.
The roastery
Two people and a twelve kilo drum.
We started roasting in 2019, in a unit behind a tyre garage, because the coffee we could buy near us was three months old and nobody selling it seemed embarrassed about that.
There are two of us. One roasts, one packs and answers the email, and on Tuesday nights both of us do both. The drum holds twelve kilos and we run it four times, which is where the hour at the top of this page comes from.
We buy one origin at a time and we buy all of it. That is the whole business, and it is the reason there has never been a menu. When it runs out it runs out, and something else goes on the drum.
The roastery is not a cafe. If you want to come and look at it, say so and we will tell you which night the drum is on.
- Roasting since2019
- Drum12 kg, gas
- BatchesFour, Tuesday night
- Origins a yearNine to eleven
- PeopleTwo
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Is specialty just a word?
Mostly, yes. Nobody certifies it and anyone can print it. So we give you the farm, the altitude, the process and the hour it was roasted, and you can judge us on those instead of on the word.
Why does it cost more than the supermarket?
Smaller lots, paid for higher up the chain, roasted in batches too small to be efficient. There is no clever answer here. It costs more to make.
Will your staff make me feel stupid?
No. Ask anything at all. Most of us learned this standing at the counter of a shop that was patient with us, and we remember it.
I do not own an espresso machine.
That is fine. Tell us what you do own and we grind for it, or leave it whole and it keeps its life a good while longer.
One email a week
Know what comes off the drum.
We send one message when the drum stops on Tuesday night, telling you what came off it. Nothing else, ever.
You are on the list. The next roast goes out Tuesday night.
This is a design piece, so nothing is actually sent anywhere and no address is stored.