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Hello, Welcome to the new Small Batch Roasting Co. website. You will see some strange looking logos and pictures around. That’s our attempt to get all pretty. We hope you like it. We hope to use this...
View ArticleNew Packaging
We are rolling out pretty new bags this week as well. We have been working for quite a while on getting these to the place we want them. We will have Candyman as the mainstay with a solid red while the...
View ArticleWebstore
Finally! You can now have a super easy method of purchasing coffee from us. Just click on any item, if it’s coffee, select the size you would like, if it’s paper filters, select the size you would...
View ArticleColombia – January 2014
We all know now that coffee as we know it is the seed of a fruit that is sometimes called a cherry, and it grows on trees, right? Right. Unlike the can of Nescafe always sitting there ready (if not to...
View ArticleEl Pilar the Magnificent
This is not the usual waffling and clichéd description of a coffee’s flavours and provenance, rather what follows is a run down of how we got our hands on some truly unique and special micro-lots from...
View ArticleThe Santa Barbara Project
Over the next few months, we’re going to showcase the delicious efforts of 8 producers from the region under the moniker “Santa Barbara Project”. This is a chance for...
View ArticleThe sale of Auction Rooms & Counter
After over eight years of operation, Auction Rooms & Counter has been sold by Andrew Kelly, with the new owners being a group of young guns within Sensory Lab, as well as the company itself. The...
View ArticleLimited Release Coffee
Limited Release was conceived to help us showcase the abundance of delicious coffees our deep green buying programme helps us get our hands on – all smallholder coffees; all ecologically-produced or...
View ArticlePost Easter love
After hopefully treating yourself to copious amounts of chocolate over Easter, we invite you to indulge once more in these most distinguished of coffees, the delicious Duromina and the delectable...
View ArticleWhole lotta love
As the cooler months start rolling in, and the kids are back at school, we’re bringing you some really solid coffees to keep you powering through 2018. For filter, we see one of our final celebrations...
View ArticleCelebrating Colombia
This month we’re celebrating Colombia. The land of plenty. Producers in most of the regions we buy from in theory have two distinct harvests per year, but because of climate change most of growers are...
View ArticleColombians and Candyman
Continuing our love of Colombian smallholders this month, our feature filter coffee comes from two brothers who are changing the game from the ground up in Huila. Didier and Harold Pajoy (pa-hoy)...
View ArticleFarewell Autumn
We are very very sad to farewell autumn (our roasters are the only source of heat at SBHQ, Jamie is getting a bit sick of trying to cook all our coffee when the rest of us are huddled around the...
View ArticleThe Quinayas Family
Pronunciation Key: no-Eh kin-ay-Us This month is a proud one for us. The Quinayas family, near and dear to our hearts for a long time now, have produced outstanding quality to the tune of taking up...
View ArticleDuromina
This month is all about one particular, and very very special Ethiopian co-operative: Duromina. It blew us away on arrival (again) and we couldn’t help but go all out and roast it for both Filter and...
View ArticleFresh Kenyans!
We’re proud to kick off our new season Kenyan coffees with three gems. Unsurprisingly, given what you know of us (the fact that we do our own tricks in the sourcing department in a big way), this is...
View ArticleViva La Guatemala!
Guatemala is absolutely one of our favourite places to source coffee. Working with smallholder producers and purchasing their parchment coffee directly from them, year after year, has been an exercise...
View ArticleGuatemala – We can’t get enough!
We just can’t stop drinking Guatemalan coffees at the mo, and this week we’re excited to give you a sneaky peek at some coffees we have coming up: Small Batch long-time lover Guillermo Sanchez; and a...
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