Speciality Coffee Beans
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Chosen by Freda - Single Origin Coffee Subscription
Regular price From £14.00 GBPRegular price -
Decaf - Colombia
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BLACK RAIN
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CAJAMARCA - Peru
Regular price From £13.90 GBPRegular price
When I started roasting coffee for my old café Brewed in 2018, The business was running smoothly, and I was looking for the next exciting challenge. I had no idea just how obsessed I'd become.
What fascinates me about speciality coffee is just how much flavour can be influenced by roasting. Two coffees from opposite sides of the world might need completely different approaches, and even small changes to a roast profile can have a huge impact on sweetness, acidity and how the coffee brews at home. It's a never-ending learning process, and that's what keeps me excited every week.
I roast small batches of single origin coffee every week, giving each coffee time to rest before it's at its best. Having Bond Street Coffee in Brighton as our café is a huge advantage too. It means I get to brew these coffees every day as espresso and filter coffee, constantly tasting, tweaking and learning how they perform in the real world, not just on a cupping table.
Below you'll find the speciality coffee beans I'm currently roasting, from comforting chocolatey coffees for espresso to bright, delicate filter coffees. Whether you're looking to buy whole beans or freshly ground coffee for your favourite brewer, I hope you find something you'll genuinely enjoy drinking.
What Is Speciality Coffee?
Speciality coffee is usually defined by a few key things. Technically, a coffee needs to score 80 points or more on the SCA’s 100-point scale to be considered speciality grade. But for me, that only tells a small part of the story.
Traceability is a big part of it too. With good speciality coffee beans, we want to know where the coffee has come from. That might mean knowing the country and region, but often we can trace a coffee right back to an individual farm, producer or washing station. Knowing who grew the coffee, how it was processed and the conditions it was grown in gives you a much better understanding of what’s actually in your cup.
Then there’s flavour. Speciality coffee should taste interesting! Rather than coffee simply tasting dark, bitter or “like coffee”, you might find flavours that remind you of chocolate, caramel, berries, stone fruit or citrus. Different single origin coffees can taste completely different from one another.
But I think speciality coffee is really about people and attention to detail.
I want to know about the producers growing and processing the coffee. I want to know that I’ve taken care when roasting it, and that the barista brewing it has paid attention to all the little details too.
From the farm, through the coffee roaster, to the person making the final cup, speciality coffee is about people caring about making something taste as good as it possibly can.
