<p>Sourced from London to New Castle, these local roasters are the masters of third wave specialty coffee as we know it today.</p>


Our roasters

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200 Degrees Coffee's aim is simple, they want everyone to drink better coffee. They ship only the finest green beans from Rainforest Alliance farms back to the UK where they're roasted at 200°C to give a full bodied, smoother taste, hence the name. 200 Degrees Coffee was founded by Rob and Tom, who met while studying engineering at the University of Nottingham. The pair founded the company in 2012 in response to their frustrations with the standard of coffee and service from suppliers. Fast forward to today and they've built a veritable coffee empire, comprising of over 20 distinct coffee shops and 7 barista schools, all dotted across the midlands and north of England. Take your coffee experience up several degrees with their exceptional beans.

Assembly coffee roasters are a London-based, independent coffee roastery that drives and promotes innovation throughout the speciality coffee supply chain. They strive to set the leading example for the industry, in roasted coffee quality, innovation in how quality is communicated and redefine how coffee can be sourced to return greater value to farming communities. Not only are they concerned with a high standard of cup quality and using precise roasting methods, they're also seeking to redefine how coffee can be sourced, ensuring greater value for farming communities at origin. On an industry level, they're also committed to a truly collaborative working style – they maintain an open dialogue and respond to the needs of their wholesale cafe community with adaptable packaging, product and insights.

Caravan Coffee Roasters believe in mighty fine craft coffee. They source the finest beans from around the world and roast them in London, with exacting standards at every turn. Not only do they serve their roasts at their own establishments, they also supply their mighty fine craft coffee wholesale, retail and online. There are three broad principles that form the basis of their business: economic freedom for all, environmental stewardship, and the pursuit of the highest quality coffee. This translates to strict roasting, service, and education standards, alongside sustaining and developing impact-driven partnerships throughout their supply network. Jump on the Caravan Coffee bandwagon for a great cup of coffee, in more ways than one. 

The Climpson & Sons crew are true speciality coffee pioneers. Blending, roasting and extracting from their East London home, they're still as innovative and flavour focused as when they first started in 2002. 
When Climpson & Sons say they're all about “pioneering coffee excellence for all” we detect no word of a lie. Established close to 20 years ago, they're widely regarded as key players in establishing the speciality coffee scene in London, and beyond. With an unfaltering commitment to flavour, quality and sustainability, they're also committed to ensuring they're always up to date with the latest brew methods, trends and techniques. When you buy Climpson & Sons coffee, you buy the best. The best taste, the best for the planet and the best for producers.

Colonna Coffee launched in 2016 and is the culmination of Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood's decade-long pursuit of flavour. The roastery sits at the forefront of the specialty coffee industry, combining expertise, experience and a passion to showcase the world’s most spectacular coffees — with an uncompromising approach to quality. Colonna is driven by how exciting and incredible coffee can be, the character, flavour, and experience it can generate.

Dark Woods pride themselves on their careful approach to roasting, which seeks to really hero a delicious array of flavours. As a result, their award winning speciality portfolio spans a broad gamut of methods and preferences. There’s something for all coffee lovers to discover with this Leeds coffee roaster. 
Picturesque is an understatement when it comes to describing the home of Leeds based Dark Woods. The hint is in their name—the roastery is snugly situated between ancient woods and dramatic moorlands in a river-side Victorian ex-textile mill. Their vintage Probat drum roaster is primarily graced with speciality grade beans with cleaner more distinctive flavours, which span a broad spectrum of flavours and methods. Plus, they're B Corp certified so it’s good vibes all round.

Dear Green is an ode to excellence in coffee. They're committed to sourcing and roasting the finest, ethically sourced beans going, from producers across the globe. 
Established in 2011, Dear Green is a Glasgow outfit that’s all about roasting the best coffees available. As coffee obsessives, their stringent sourcing approach ensures a super high quality product, which also meets an exacting ethical standard. The green beans they source are fully traceable and come from sourcing partners who’ve met their strict supplier code of conduct. Once the beans are Glasgow side, they’re roasted scientifically with the optimal tasting experience in mind.

With their fresh is best philosophy, Edge Coffee always has flavour front of mind. This West Sussex roastery and tea house has been blending, brewing and roasting since 1981—you can taste the difference their decades of experience and obsession with freshness makes in each and every cup. 
Edge Coffee, has, well, an edge. They're award winners for one, and fiercely independent for another. Family owned and run, they focus on serving only the top 5% of top grade speciality beans. Whilst coffee quality is key, they also have a firm eye on sustainability—they’ve vowed to NEVER do pods—and bring many decades of experience to the fore in their Sussex Barn/roasting HQ. They serve their unique and delicious coffees next door in their cafe, around the traps at other local businesses and soon to be in your very own home. Invite freshness into your daily routine today.

Grind is on a mission to change the way we drink coffee for the better- roasting coffee that’s ethically sourced from sustainable farms, making compostable coffee pods from plants, and producing a growing range of speciality coffee blends and accessories to suit the many, many ways that people like to drink their coffee. Founded in 2011 as an innovative “coffee shop by day, cocktail bar by night” hotspot in the heart of Shoreditch, Grind is now a certified B Corp that serves millions of customers each year from their 14 sites across London.

The folks at Kickback Coffee believe that everyone should be able to enjoy the freshest, most delicious coffee possible. That’s why their focus is squarely on fresh roasts, where all coffee is sold within 2 weeks of roast date. When it comes to their sourcing, Kickback Coffee keep things simple. Do they like it? If the answer is yes, the coffee is on rotation. Of course, they have excellent taste, so anything that hits the roaster and shelf is top top quality coffee. While the whole thing kicked off in 2017 with a popcorn machine, these days they’ve thankfully swapped the popcorn maker for a Giesen W15. This bustling roastery in the heart of the Cheshire Peak District serves some of the UK’s freshest roasted, highest quality and most unique tasting coffee.

We’re Kiss the Hippo, London‘s most innovative and sustainable specialty coffee company. We roast organic, planet-friendly coffee at our state-of-the-art roastery in London, then send it out to discerning coffee drinkers across the UK and beyond. We opened our roastery in 2018, and from day one it’s been a hub of sustainable innovation. Since then, we won the UK Barista Championships twice which is a humble reflection of our perfectionist ethos. Kiss the Hippo's ultimate aim is to be regarded as the superior coffee brand of its era.

Neighbourhood coffee is a roastery with a simple aim: they're all about bringing you coffee to make you smile. Behind this ethos lies lots of work, thought and passion from Liverpool’s first specialty roastery. 
The friendly Liverpool locals at Neighbourhood Coffee are fanatical about producing the perfect brew, and putting a smile on your dial while they're at it. They’re committed to travelling to origin to ensure they’re sourcing the best green beans going. Once they're Merseyside side, they roast their beans green with great care to ensure the unique characteristics of each coffee is allowed to shine. Aside from letting their coffee “tell their own stories”, this chatty bunch are known to tell a few tales themselves over a brew or two. 