If you remember a blog post from last year on Wild Heart Coffee via Dog and Hat (read that post here!), you'll know how much I fell in love with their experimental coffees that of course I had to purchase some more.  This is one of two coffees I picked up from them, so look out for another blog post soon! Who are Wild Heart Coffee? "After starting roasting in Northern Ireland, at home, in a custom built roasting device for a rotisserie oven back in 2016... it's safe to say Sam has come a long way. After a couple of aborted attempts to launch Wild Heart ..read more

 The last coffee to feature from the September Dog and Hat box is from River City, and again another company I have not tried!  So who are River City Coffee "We created hand roasted, amazing fresh coffee for all without the smoke and mirrors (and high prices!) we seemed to find everywhere in the coffee industry. After a year we moved into our first industrial premises and set about creating our own micro-roasters based around our 5kg production roaster (nicknamed Harold) in 2017. Fast forward to today, and another huge upgrade project lat ..read more

 Continuing the September Dog and Hat box, we have Brew Coffee Plus, who I'd never heard of before, but again that is the fantastic thing about subscription boxes, you get to find and try lots of new exciting roasters! So who are Brew Coffee Plus?  "Brew Coffee Plus opened in April 2019, with Enea's vision and mission to roast the best quality coffee possible with full flavours and a focus on transparency and ethics. With  every cup you drink, you are actively supporting local communities, small farmers growing coffee instead of narcotics (Myanmar with its histor ..read more

A company I've been following on Instagram for a long while now is Saints of Mohka, it wasn't even coffee that pulled me into discovering the greatness behind Saints of Mokha - it was actually a particular piece of latte art, a beautiful tulip with 4 words underneath red velvet hot chocolate. Since then they've had me hooked. (I should also mention that this is a very late blog post, it was actually meant to be posted last year, however life has got in the way, but as I always say, better late than never!) The lovely Omar got in touch with me about a particularly special coffee com ..read more

 Skipping back to the September Dog and Hat Box, we are featuring Onyx Coffee Lab, this one I was super excited to try as they were quite high on my Instagram to try list.  So who are Onyx Coffee Lab? "It was some years ago that we, Jon and Andrea, began to dream of serving a sweet, black cup of coffee to our customers in Arkansas.  Out of this dream is how Onyx Coffee lab was born in October 2012. Back then, we were struggling to get access to the kind of green coffee samples we were interested in. When no one knows who you are, no one wants to take a  ..read more

 As were slowly catching up on Dog and Hat, we are skipping ahead to the November box! (Don't worry I'll be back with the rest of the October box back in a few days!) This box included 3 great roasters, and the first up is Crankhouse Coffee! This is the second feature of Crankhouse via Dog and Hat - you can read the first feature here! If you've never heard of Crankhouse Coffee, I'll start by introducing them: "Crankhouse Coffee are an artisan micro-roaster focusing on purchasing amazing coffees from around the world. Our coffees are selected from specialty importers who supp ..read more

 Now I know what you're thinking "Jass, it's January, Christmas is over" ... sure, sure, however there was one coffee that I didn't get time to blog about in December, but I wanted to showcase it on here, no matter how late it was, not only because it's a lovely brand who I worked with last year, but it's pretty damn tasty too.  Two Chimps coffee were kind enough to send over a bag of their Christmas Coffee over to me in December, there have been a few posts including Two Chimps Coffee which you can read here If you are new here, and ha ..read more

 It's the last bag in the Birthday celebration box from Dog and Hat! The last bag in this box is an exciting one, they have been on my to try list since Dog and Hat last had them in their box.  Yellow bags just hook me in. Who are Rabbit Hole Roasters? "We know very little about coffee, and we are okay with that.  That's one of the reasons we called this company Rabbit Hole. It's because we want to dive infinitely deep in all thing’s coffee, from sustainability to tasting notes, from equality across the chain to brew ratios, etc. We can all be interested in c ..read more

Phew its been a little while since we finished off the last Dog and Hat box, like I always say, better late than never!  My favourite thing about the Dog and Hat box will always be discovering new roasters that I typically wouldn't discover on my own (top perk of having a subscription coffee box!) Who are Gold Box Roastery? The simple philosophy at the centre of our business is less swagger, more substance; Our coffee speaks for itself. It's the creativity, warmth and mastery of the farmers we meet along the way that inspires our approach to speciality coffee. T ..read more

 It's certainly been a while since we've featured Girls Who Grind Coffee on The Coffee Life (if you want to check out posts previously on GWGC click here) Now if you've somehow been living under a rock and don't know who the wonderful ladies over at GWGC are, let me introduce them: "We are an all female specialty coffee roasters based in the wild South-West of England. We source our coffees specifically and exclusively from women producers, seeking out those coffees that are creating positive change through the empowerment of women. We're here to do two things ..read more