Where the Circle gathers.
A working roastery first, a clubhouse always — this is where every bag starts and where members pull up a chair on Saturday mornings.
It started with a two-kilo drum in a garage.
The first roasts went to neighbours in paper bags with handwritten notes. The notes got longer, the neighbours started writing back, and it became obvious the conversation was worth as much as the coffee.
Ten years on, the drum is bigger and the notes live in the tasting library — but every bag still ships with the same question attached: what did you find in it?
How a Cupping Room roast happens.
Buy small, buy traceable
Twelve origins a year, each from a named farm or washing station, bought in lots small enough to roast attentively.
Roast to order on Greta
Thirty kilos at a time, profiled by hand, cupped against the reference roast before any bag is filled.
Ship on roast day
Bagged the same morning it ships, with the roast date on the front and the Circle’s tasting notes a QR code away.
Four rules we roast by.
Not poster slogans — the actual tests every buying and roasting decision has to pass.
Traceable
Every lot names its farm, its process and what we paid for it.
Seasonal
Coffee is a crop. We buy what is fresh and let it go when it fades.
Roasted to order
No pallet of stale bags in a warehouse. Your coffee was green last week.
Shared
The roast log, the recipes, the mistakes — all of it goes in the library.
A morning on Foundry Lane.
What the place actually looks like on a roast day.
Delivery day
Sacks in, dock doors open
Roast day
Greta at first crack
The cupping table
Every lot, every week
The brew bar
Where recipes get argued
Bagging
Same-morning dispatch
Saturday cuppings
Members from 10am
The people behind the drum.
Three of us, plus 850 members who tell us when we are wrong.
Dana Okoye
Founder & Head Roaster
Tomas Vidal
Green Buyer
June Park
Community Host, the Lounge
Taste what we're talking about.
Come to a Saturday cupping and try the current roasts for nothing, or skip straight to a seat in the Circle.