Trade roasting for independent cafés

Roasted to order for your counter.

Taste three roasts on your own machine, then set a delivery rhythm that suits your week.

  • Order by noon
  • Roasted next morning
  • With you two days later

Monday roast

Field Day and Long Light

Orders close

Sunday at noon

Thursday roast

Field Day and Low Tide

Orders close

Wednesday at noon

On the bench

Autumn guest lot, small runs

Courier

Two working days, tracked

The roasts

Three coffees, roasted every week.

One for the espresso machine, one for the batch brewer, one for the evening crowd. Each is cupped the morning after it is roasted, before it leaves.

Espresso running from a bottomless portafilter

Espresso

House espresso

Field Day

Milk chocolate, toasted hazelnut and a little red apple. Sweet in milk, round on its own.

  • Brazil and Colombia
  • Medium roast
Hot water poured over a filter cone into a glass server

Filter

Seasonal filter

Long Light

Apricot, black tea and honey. Bright enough to be interesting, gentle enough for a full batch brewer.

  • Ethiopia, washed
  • Light roast
Freshly ground coffee in a portafilter basket

Decaf

Decaf

Low Tide

Cocoa, molasses and orange peel. A decaf people order on purpose, decaffeinated with water.

  • Colombia, water process
  • Medium-dark roast

A guest lot joins the list each season, in small batches.

Roasted beans spilling from a cloth bag beside a hand grinder

In every box

3 × 250 g

Field Day, Long Light and Low Tide, dated on the bag.

The tasting box

Judge us on your own bar, not on our word.

Before you commit to anything, we send the three roasts as they would arrive on a normal delivery: rested, sealed and labelled with the roast date.

  • 01

    Three 250 g bags

    Whole bean, roasted in the same week it ships.

  • 02

    Recipe cards

    Our starting recipes for espresso and filter: dose, yield and time.

  • 03

    A call with the roaster

    Twenty minutes to talk through what you tasted and what you pour.

  • 04

    Credit on your first order

    Open an account and the box comes off your first invoice.

How it works

From first sip to a standing order in three weeks.

No contracts and no forms to fill in. Most cafés are on a regular rhythm by their third delivery.

01

Week one

Taste the three roasts

A box of three 250 g bags arrives within two working days. Pull them on your own machine, with your own milk.

02

Week two

Dial in with us

We visit or call while you set the grind. Together we settle on a house recipe and a weekly weight.

03

Week three

Set your rhythm

Pick weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Change the weights by email up to the Friday before a roast.

Roasted beans pouring out of a drum roaster into the cooling tray

Thursday batch, leaving the drum

Roasted to order

We roast what you ordered. Nothing waits on a shelf.

Orders close at noon the day before a roast. We weigh out green coffee for each café, roast it in small batches and let it rest overnight before it is packed.

  • Day before, noon

    Orders close. We weigh the green coffee for every café on the list.

  • Roast day

    Small batches from first light, each one logged and cupped.

  • The morning after

    Rested beans go into one kilo bags, dated by hand.

  • Within two days

    Your courier delivery arrives, ready to pull.

Delivery rhythm

A rhythm that matches your week.

Pick how often the courier comes. You can change it, or pause a week, with a single email.

Weekly

Roasted Monday, with you Wednesday

For a busy counter

Fresh bags every week, sized to what you actually pour. Change the weight up to the Friday before.

  • Best above 10 kg a week
  • Rested and ready on arrival
  • Pause any week by email

Fortnightly

Roasted Thursday, with you Monday

For a steady neighbourhood café

Two weeks of coffee in one delivery, rested so the last bag pulls as well as the first.

  • Best from 5 to 10 kg a week
  • Fewer boxes to break down
  • Swap roasts between deliveries

Monthly

First Monday of the month

For a kitchen or a quiet bar

One larger delivery for places that pour less, with storage advice so the fourth week still tastes right.

  • Best below 5 kg a week
  • Valve bags for longer keeping
  • Add a top-up any Thursday

Trade terms

Simple terms, written down.

Everything is on one page and nothing is hidden in a contract. If something here does not fit your café, tell us and we will talk it through.

Minimum order

Five kilos per delivery, in any mix of roasts.

Payment

Invoice at thirty days, or card when you order.

Delivery

Free above ten kilos; a flat courier charge below.

Commitment

None. Pause or stop with a week's notice.

Support

Dial-in visits and barista training on request.

Beyond the bag

More than a delivery of beans.

A roaster is only as good as the cup that reaches your customer, so the help is part of the account.

Water poured over a filter cone of fresh grounds

On your bar

Dial-in visits

When a new roast lands, we come and set the grind with you on your own machine, then leave the recipe taped by the grinder.

Two espresso shots pulling into small cups

On the machine

Espresso training

Half-day sessions for new staff on dosing, tamping and reading a shot, held at your café before service.

Coffee poured from a small pot into a cup at a bar

On the menu

Filter and batch brew

Recipes for batch brewers and pour-over bars, written for the water and the equipment you already have.

Freshly roasted beans turning in a cooling tray

“We would rather roast twice a week for forty cafés than once a month for four hundred. Small batches are how we stay honest about freshness.”

The roasting team at Drumlin

The tasting box

Taste three roasts on your own machine.

Three 250 g bags, recipe cards for espresso and filter, and a call with the roaster to talk through what you tasted. If you set up an account, the box is taken off your first invoice.

  • Roasted Monday or Thursday
  • Rested one night
  • Credited to your first order