Coffee roasters · east Belfast
Three coffees. We'll tell you which one.
Roasted on Wednesdays in a unit off Dee Street, posted Thursday, on the shelf Friday. No tasting-note poetry unless you ask for it.
Coffee roasters · east Belfast
Roasted on Wednesdays in a unit off Dee Street, posted Thursday, on the shelf Friday. No tasting-note poetry unless you ask for it.
The coffee
Most roastery websites list altitude, varietal and processing method and leave you to guess. Here's the useful version first — the numbers are underneath if you want them.
If you make flat whites, lattes or just a strong cup with a splash in it — this one. Chocolatey, doesn't go sour, forgiving if your technique is rough.
£9.50 · 250g
If you drink it black and want it to taste of something other than "coffee". Floral, quite tea-like. Genuinely not for milk — it disappears.
£12.00 · 250g
Decaf that we'd actually drink. Water-processed, no solvents. For after dinner, or for anyone who's been told to pack it in.
£10.00 · 250g
Whole bean unless you tell us otherwise — say what you brew with and we'll grind it right. First-class post is £3.50, free over £30, and it goes out Thursday whatever you order.
Brewing
60g coffee / 1L water · coarse · 4 min · press slowly, decant
15g coffee / 230g water · medium-fine · 2 min · press 30s
18g in / 36g out / 28s · adjust grind, not the dose
If you buy one thing, buy scales. Weighing your coffee and water fixes more bad cups than any grinder upgrade, and a set costs about a tenner.
Find us
It's one unit, one machine and four stools, and it smells of the roast that morning. Come on a Wednesday and you'll be drinking something we roasted an hour earlier.
Unit 3, Dee Street Works
Belfast BT4 1FN
Wholesale
We supply about a dozen places around Belfast. That comes with a delivery on Thursdays, a machine setup visit, and someone at the end of the phone when the grinder starts behaving oddly at half seven in the morning. Tell us what you're doing and roughly how much you get through.