The Red House Hotel – 40 years running a busy hotel for the whole community in Coupar Angus – now with its own Bespoke Coffee Experience with Blendly!

The Red House Hotel, the last Hotel in Coupar Angus, is the home of fresh bespoke coffee!  The Hotel now has its own Beer Garden, open every day, and serving teas, coffees & lunches, as well as alcoholic drinks.

 

Outdoor Beer Garden has become a popular coffee hub to enjoy a blether and check up on friends we may have not seen recently

Currently celebrating 40 years of ownership by the Bannerman family, 2020 is a special year for the Hotel. Dating back to Victorian times, when Coupar Angus had a vibrant railway station, the building was originally called The Railway Hotel. When the trains ceased to run, the neighbouring potato store and railway yard was purchased by current owner Alan Bannerman’s father Norman, and his Uncle Telford, from then owners, Scottish Brewers, in 1979, with the two men calling their business partnership, Nortel Leisure. Redeveloping the building back into a Hotel, which they called The Red House Hotel, the business opened its doors to guests in 1980.

“Developing our own delicious coffee blend with Blendly, is just one of the new initiatives we have introduced to celebrate our forty years of ownership,” said Alan.

As a brand it was important for us to create something unique that matches our brand values for quality and independence.

“It’s also in response to customer demand, as everyone wants great coffee at any time of the day, and we were finding that artisan coffee was becoming more and more popular.”

“As a brand it was important for us to create something unique that matches our brand values for quality and independence. We’re not a big chain hotel – we are family run, one of the  biggest employers in the town, and we promote community.”

The Red House Hotel blend, also available at the Hotel’s sister business, The Dalmore Inn, Blairgowrie, is a Dark Italian Espresso, featuring a third Brazilian Santos Beans, a third Colombian Excelso Beans, and a third Ugandan Robusta Beans. The grind is Whole Bean, whilst the Roast is Dark Italian. Customers can order this very same coffee to enjoy at home by scanning the QR code which is displayed in each venue. The coffee will then be delivered to their homes within three working days, to bring a taste of their favourite local establishments to their home!

With Quality food and service at the top of  The Red House Hotel’s agenda, they understand that more and more top establishments, hotels and restaurants have increased sales of the hot drink three times faster than specialist outlets, by creating coffee blends that are unique to them and their customer.

• • According to Mintel Coffee drinking is ingrained among Brits as, today, a coffee-loving four in five (79%) adults drink coffee at home.
  • Drunk by 62% of adults, instant coffee is the nation’s number one in-home coffee brew, followed by ground coffee (24%) and coffee pods (15%).
  • Keeping up appearances, as many as one in five (20%) coffee-drinking Brits say they would be embarrassed to serve instant coffee to their guests. But it is the nation’s young (aged 16-34) who are Britain’s top coffee snobs, 31% of whom would be embarrassed to serve a cup of instant coffee.

 “Our Beer Garden has also become a great spot to gather, drink our coffee blend, and chat in small bubble groups – our customers can come into the hotel. Coffee and a chat has become so important post covid as we all reconnect, so let’s do it over the freshest, most delicious coffee we can offer,” added Alan Bannerman. 

We love to use seasonal ingredients, and ingredients that mean something to us, so a dessert with our own coffee, maybe a pannacotta, or a coffee souffle, is bound to be popular with the many foodies we attract.

Head Chef at the Hotel, Nigel Liston, is excited about working with Blendly, and has plans to develop a dessert containing the Hotel’s blend.

“This is quality coffee containing speciality coffee beans harvested around the world,” he said. “We love to use seasonal ingredients, and ingredients that mean something to us, so a dessert with our own coffee, maybe a pannacotta, or a coffee souffle, is bound to be popular with the many foodies we attract.”  

As palates change, Blendly, the commercial coffee roaster, understands that many more people are looking for increased choice in quality food and drink. Blendly allows its customers to create their own coffee experience, delivered fresh.

Allowing them to explore the flavours of different beans and roasts is part of the Blendly coffee experience!

Blendly is excited to announce the launch of the Blendly – Barista Coffee Community Box on uOpen.com subscription platform.

Our partnership with uOpen will give our Barista community free access to a market consisting of 10, 000 unique users of Uopen which attracts between 7000 – 8000 internet search hits per month. You can learn more about our partnership from our interview with uOpen below.

Mark Wilson Head of the Blendly Commercial Marketplace understands that the industry for fresh coffee was very traditional, roasting coffee has not changed for 100’s of years. The Blendly on-demand services allows greater access to a wide range of commodities creating a unique offering to people drinking coffee –  giving wider and greater access to the process of creating fresher coffee and developing the tools to create a more sustainable community that benefits from the knowledge and skills of local baristas.

Working with uOpen, we can give more access to our on-demand service and build a greater community around the baristas and coffee lovers that use the Blendly marketplace to create and distribute their skills and knowledge in the creation on their own coffee blends.

Your Company/Box Name: Blendly – Barista Coffee Community Box

What sparked your decision to start up your box and how did you get started?

uOpen came across our platform when we were featured in an online news article by The Scotsman – Food and Drink and we were invited to join the uOpen community.

We curate a growing number of great coffee blends that have been created by coffee lovers, baristas, cafes, and organizations across the UK.  These blenders represent the foundation of our coffee-loving community and we were excited by the opportunity to share their love of coffee with other communities that share a common interest. 

Each of the blenders featured in the Blendly Barista Bundle receives a contribution of the monthly subscription.

Describe your box in three words?
Fresher, Quicker, Better

Where did your box name come from?
Our Blendly customer accounts are referred to as “Barista” accounts and their blends are known as barista blends.  Blendly – Barista Coffee Community Box just seems to roll off the tongue. 

Are you a creator or curator?
The Blendly coffee and green bean marketplace allows creativity in coffee blending to flourish by giving greater access to the components that make up your favorite cup of coffee.

Blendly is a one stop, online coffee roasting and blending service developed for baristas and coffee lovers to create something unique for people. Our ethos is to reflect the diversity within the coffee loving community and our mission is to give our community the tools to create blends that are unique to  themselves. 

We see Blendly as the world’s independent Coffee Blend Curator, allowing you to taste match coffee and create a coffee blend using commodities sourced from all over the world. 

What was your most popular box?
Each box will be unique and we expect popularity to grow monthly. Everyone has their own special relationship with coffee – and we look forward to helping you share that passion with friends, family and colleagues.

How many people are involved with producing your subscription box?
This is a good question as each box is formulated each month, the number of people involved can vary.  We would include the blend creators, the people who have cupped and tasted the blends and the people who have bought the creators blend, then there’s the production team of roasters and packers.

Which subscription boxes do you subscribe to?
A certain personal grooming subscription… 

Name a celebrity subscriber you’d love to have as a customer?
Some of our baristas already make coffee for Celebrities we love to make coffee for them. 

If you could put anything in your box, with money or scarcity no object, what would it be?
More time.

What do you love about uOpen?
It enables us to grow our coffee-loving community and celebrate the success of our partners. 

Do you have any other information or feedback that you’d like to put forward for inclusion in the interview article?
The Blendly green bean coffee marketplace  is available for all to use and we welcome coffee lovers to create their own blends and share with their family, friends and colleagues.

The Blendly marketplace platform is scalable and we enable independent cafes, businesses and communities to develop their own blends and distribute throughout their communities at prices based on the volumes they can sell.  

Being a Barista Distributor offers you the best of both worlds, learn and earn. By developing your knowledge of what it takes to achieve a great coffee taste and an understanding of the ingredients and methods that goes along with it, you’re paving the way to a sustainable return just doing what you love most – how great is that!

Cupcake Coffee Box customers continue drinking their favorite coffee blend during lockdown thanks to Blendly Coffee Marketplace.

Cupcake Coffee Box closed in light of the Covid-19 outbreak meaning that their regular customers were not able to get their favorite cup of coffee.   Cupcake Cafe owner, Mike Lowe and his team are using their Blendly.co.uk Barista account to create services, manage and ship their customers favorite coffee straight to their home. 

As part of their business continuity plan and to continue providing their numerous cafe customers to get access to their favourite coffee at home.  Cupcake coffee Box has been serving great coffee for many years and used their experience of coffee service and customer feedback to develop the Black N Brewed coffee brand specifically to allow their customers to shop for their favorite coffee from home.

Mike and the Cupcake coffee box team took their inspiration from a need to continue providing a service to their community, in particular for their core market of front line and emergency service workers. Mike and his team are delighted that the Blendly Marketplace and coffee roasting platform can fulfill their commercial objectives, satisfy their customers’ needs and continue to connect them with the coffee blend they developed 

Cupcake Coffee Box are regular users of Blendly.co.uk, arguably the most advanced commercial coffee roaster around.  Blendly.co.uk, a commercial coffee roaster, enables Baristas and cafe owners to open up new opportunities in online shopping, allowing coffee shop customers to have their favourite coffee delivered to their home.

Mike and his team working with Blendly.co.uk, can advise and create coffee blends for their customers as well as manage their own coffee supply to customers during the lockdown, ensuring customers’ homes never run out of their favourite brew.

“Cupcake Coffee Box is at the heart of their local community and working with blendly.co.uk has provided new opportunities to supply our customers at home and work, especially for the many workers involved in providing important services in the fight to prevent the spread of Covid 19. We can manage online accounts for Health care workers in hospitals and our police forces that traditionally visited our coffee shop.”

Blendly commercial coffee roasters have been creating coffee blends for the global coffee consumer – developing coffee blends that are both unique to the person and their palate.

The global coffee machine market size was valued at USD 5.88 billion in 2018 and is projected to register a CAGR of 3.7% from 2019 to 2025. Increased consumption of coffee in Asian countries is one of the key factors driving market growth. In addition, the introduction of new products, such as green and organic coffee, is expected to result in high consumption, thereby contributing to the market growth.

Blendly.co.uk understands that increasing awareness about the health benefits of coffee, such as reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, liver cancer and liver diseases, and protection against heart failure, is expected to result in high consumption. This will also contribute to the increasing demand for coffee machines. In addition, rapidly growing market for Ready-to-Drink (RTD) beverages, particularly coffee infused beverages, is boosting the market development.

Blendly.co.uk as a Coffee roaster and manufacturer is investing in R&D to introduce advanced access to coffee blending via its CTAPS system allowing machines featuring the latest technologies. to take advantage of custom blends for the new global coffee consumer

Europe led the global market in 2018 due to high consumption of coffee. Moreover, presence of commercial infrastructure and offices also results in increasing demand for coffee machines, thereby augmenting market growth. In addition, rising number of cafes in the region will boost the growth further.

Drip filter coffee machines led the market in 2018. The components of drip filter machine, such as filter and cone, are reusable. This has played an important role in increasing its demand. In addition, manufacturers are introducing drip machines with advanced technological features, which is also likely to propel the segment growth. For instance, the advent of smart drip coffee machines. These can be accessed through smart phones or devices. Capsule coffee machine is expected to be the fastest-growing segment at a CAGR of 4.8% from 2019 to 2025. These machines are easy to use, which drives their demand.

Commercial application accounted for more than half of the global coffee machine market share in 2018. Increasing number of cafes and restaurants across the globe is boosting the product demand in commercial application. Furthermore, rapidly growing corporate sector will fuel the demand further. Residential application will also have a significant growth in the years to come.

Demand for specialty coffee induced with different flavors is driving the segment. In addition, countries, such as U.S., witness a high demand for household coffee machines owing to higher coffee consumption. According to the National Coffee Association trends, 29% of U.S. households purchased single serve brewers in the year 2017. Moreover, technological advancement in coffee machines also act as a key driver for the segment growth.

Europe led the global market accounting for 33.0% of the global share in 2018. High consumption of coffee in the region is the main factor driving the market. Moreover, presence of a number of commercial complexes and offices results in increased product sales. Asia Pacific will be the fastest-growing regional market from 2019 to 2025. Developing countries including India, China, and Australia are expected to be the major contributors to the region’s growth. Moreover, rising number of cafes and coffee shops, particularly in emerging countries, will drive the demand. Major cafe chains, such as CCD and Starbucks, are investing in the region owing to high growth potential, which is likely to support market development.