We always enjoy testing new equipment at our Roastery. Some of it passes the ‘Carvetii Test’ and we’ll happily recommend it to our customers. Here’s some of the stuff we currently have on test.
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Déjà Vu
After five years of roasting coffee from our small unit outside Cockermouth, we’ll be moving our business next month to bigger and better premises.
Humble Pie
Over the past few years we’ve roasted coffee from many countries but there are a few notable exceptions. We need to source coffees which fit our roast style, and we tend to work with coffees we enjoy drinking oursleves. However, every once in a while our prejudices are challenged . . .
Then and Now (Part 2)
We started our roasting business five years ago and in the intervening years have developed our roasting to ensure our standards keep growing
Cup of Excellence
April will be an exciting month for us at Carvetii: we have just committed to our first Cup of Excellence coffee and we are expecting delivery at the end of March. This is the first of a number of small lot coffees we’ll be exploring and making available in 2016. The Cup of…
Markets, Festivals and Events
Since 2011 we’ve been using events to build our brand and to engage with customers. Here are our top tips for getting the most out of markets, festivals and events.
A step too far or a long way to travel?
A visit to one of our customers this morning reminded me of an article I’ve read recently with regards to espresso and the use of scales. This morning’s espresso was served from a machine which had been carefully dialled-in (I watched the barista do this), and my actual espresso was weighed. As it turns out,…
Updates to our Website
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been making a few changes to our website, which will make ordering (and receiving) our coffee a little bit easier. Firstly we’ve changed the packaging we use for our online orders. Our new bags have a thinner profile, allowing them to fit through most letterboxes. They also have…
Better Together
As each year draws to a close we quite enjoy looking back on the previous twelve months, reflecting on the highs and learning from the lows. 2015 was the ‘year of collaboration’ as far as Carvetii was concerned, a year where the important lesson was one of working together. The year started in an interesting…
Lowther Show
Our commitment to raising the profile of speciality coffee in Cumbria continued last weekend at the hugely successful Lowther Show, near Penrith. It was a thoroughly enjoyable weekend and a great opportunity to talk to coffee drinkers, many of whom can now be considered ‘regulars’. It is quite humbling to discover that people have walked…
Finca El Parasío
Finca El Paraíso is a single origin coffee from Nicaragua. It is a deliciously smooth and sweet coffee, making it very easy drinking.
Carvetii Open Day 9th & 10th May 2015
UK coffee week is a time of year when the coffee industry unites to raise money for clean water projects in two coffee producing countries, Rwanda and Tanzania. Carvetii’s involvement this year is twofold: on the 1st May we travel down to the London Coffee Festival where we’ll be serving our coffee on the Artisan…