Low Carbon Coffee Roasting

Darwin’s Rest – A Welcome Stop for Innovation and Coffee

Roybridge has an excellent cafe – the Darwin’s Rest but the surprise is that it is a visitor information point on the unusual geological feature called “parallel roads”. Go to the cafe/gift shop and learn and come away amazed at what you have learned.

But what is the link with great coffee and innovation – And you might be Darwin's Rest surprised to understand that the Greatest naturalist to have lived and perhaps take a little credit for inspiring some of his remarkable achievements was here in Roybridge.

While the Galapagos Islands are largely credited with providing the inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theories, how far did his time in Scotland help shape his ideas?

There is a great spot to soak up this innovation in the Darwin’s Rest.It also understands innovation in coffee and teamed up with Blendly, the commercial coffee roaster, have created their own fresh coffee blend – to better engage its customers at Darwin’s Rest.

Coffee is playing such an important part of the high street and successful coffee shops are working with Blendly and engaging them more and more about their products and services that are unique to the products they serve.

The Coffee Corner Adds Adventure to its Coffee Blend with Blendly and G2

The Coffee Corner and the team have enlisted Blendly, the commercial coffee roaster to develop a superb speciality coffee blend for its customers in Aviemore. As in most towns and cities, the landscape of coffee is changing. Coffee shop owners are spending more time developing coffee blends for their customers. To better engage customers in the new flavours and tastes that are available from some of the speciality coffee beans that can be used to develop your brand.

The Coffee Corner In Aviemore is also the heart of adventure and is a great place to meet at the start or indeed relax at the end of a great adventure The Coffee Corner – Understands coffee is about connecting people and is a perfect place to start such as adventure like flying through the trees on an exhilarating ride through the Scottish Highlands? – Giving a Relaxing atmosphere to start the Uk’s first Zip Trek Adventure Park based on Alvie Estate near Aviemore! In the heart of the Cairngorms National Park, our Zip Trek is made up of 14 zip wires over a 2km course, with zips starting off nice and easy and get bigger and faster as you go along the course with the last big one at 550m long at 40mph!

What is at the heart of a this Adventure Community is the great coffee – Coffee corner and G2 developed their speciality coffee blend based on the changing palates of their customers and also its superb menu that many customers commented on The Coffee Corner in Aviemore is one of the favourite destinations when travelling.

Good food, good service and good price. In fact, The Coffee Corner is so good that this place is usually packed.

Coffee is playing such an important part of the high street and successful coffee shops are working with their customers and engaging them more and more about their products that services that unique to the products they serve.

speciality coffee — Iain Macrury the Mastermind behind the popularity of coffee corner allows the customer to order coffee online and have it sent directly to there homes anywhere in the UK utilising Blendly.co.uk

Coffee Corner also allow customers to take the coffee away as its roasted fresh Iain Macrury the Mastermind behind the popularity of coffee corner allows the customer to order coffee online and have it sent directly to there homes anywhere in the UK.

Iain Macrury helps build footfall as well as creates greater customer loyalty by allowing the customer to scan the coffee on their mobiles and have it delivered to there home.

This sort of innovation allowing the customer to have access to products is part of a national Trend. In the UK delivery sales have increased by 20% over the last five years, according to industry research firm NPD Group. Chain after chain, from McDonald’s to Moe’s Southwest Grill, has mentioned delivery as a necessary sales driver.

And coffee is no exception, The Coffee Corner was able to develop their coffee working with Blendly, the company specialises in developing Speciality coffee blends that are unique, and transparent and it allows us to better deliver a great coffee and also help coffee shop owners manage their fresh coffee deliveries as well as give a total customised solution allowing customers to take the coffee blends home as the products are created and branded for the individual coffee shop owner .

Make Your Office Alive Again

There are many benefits of having a fun and collaborative office. The list goes on from happier and healthier employees, more productivity and an overall better organization. But a lot of organizations fail to do this. This then leads to many detrimental things for the employees and the organization.

There’s a lot of ways to implement this culture to the office. One of them is simply just by having a good coffee around. Office coffee is a commonly consumed beverage in the office and can be considered an integral part of the office culture. Some offices even offer free coffee for their employees because they know the great benefits of it.

Almost everyone loves coffee. What better way to make your office alive with the great smell of fresh coffee. But not everyone may like the same exact coffee. With Blendly, you can design your own coffee blend to have a unique taste profile that will match anyone’s preferences. You can mix different coffee beans harvested from around the world with ease with guaranteed freshness.

You can even imitate popular brands’ coffees or make it better. Imagine having Caffe Nero, Costa, Starbucks and other popular coffee shop chains right inside your office but a much affordable version, fresher and better.

Happy employees results to a better organization. Make your office alive again with Blendly.

Gringo’s Bar and Restaurant – Artisan Coffee from South America

Blendly was trusted by food entrepreneur Marinna Robertson to create a coffee that’s unique to them and their business.

Blendly specialises in the creation of flavours and tastes allowing Gringo’s Bar and Restaurant to develop their own speciality coffee blend.

Blendly working with Gringo’s created a coffee blend. That works so well with the authentic Mexican and South American street food as well as cocktails, music and atmosphere.

Blendly developed Gringo’s coffee blend from speciality coffee beans blending Colombian, Brazilian and Guatemalan coffee. The blend was designed to complement the simple yet complex flavours of the authentic Mexican and South American street food created by Food Entrepreneur Marinna Robertson.

Marinna Robertson inspiration is to create a Latin American street food and drinks bar, came when returning from travelling and working As a Chef in the French Alps.

“Working with Blendly created a signature coffee blend that has tastes of chocolate, tons of crema, spicy undertones and a sweet finish make this coffee is a must.”

Blendly offers a great range of speciality coffee. And the tools that allow the worlds best Chefs to develop products that are unique to their menu, And allow the coffee products to accessed directly by the customers that love great coffee. With more and more customers understanding the value that great Chefs like Marinna Robertson take in creating and designing the flavours and tastes that play a huge part in making a customer experience

Blendly coffee compliments the delicious, authentic Mexican and South American street food plus tasty cocktails, mescals, tequilas, wines, beers.

Gringos allow its growing customers to have a quick lunchtime snack, sit in/or take away, afternoon coffee, cocktails… or an evening meal, with great attention to detail – right down to the coffee.

Coffee plays such an important part in our business and we have developed a loyal following of customers around our coffee and our coffee blend – and have added some variations to allow our customers to enjoy the experience.

Gringo’s coffee offering is built around the same values as the food menu creating great transparent flavours and tastes.

Blendly are different from other coffee roasters as they create blends that are unique. Other roasters products tend to be based around a single volumised product. Blendly believe in greater value for money, greater freshness and better choice of coffee. Blendly also works to promote your brand. All of our products are retail ready allowing our customers to take the product away to enjoy at home.

Gringo’s is dog friendly and can cater for all your dietary needs, including vegan and gluten-free. We are also going all out on service, music, art and atmosphere, so come enjoy some exotic flavours and let us whisk you away to Latin America!

Antlers Cafe Group – Great Coffee at the Heart of Great Coffee Shops

Companies like Antlers Cafe Group understands that coffee is at the heart of the operations and that transparency and quality build success. Developing your own products and services and incorporating it into your own customer experience develops services unique to you and builds value creating greater and fresher food for your customers.

Having Antlers Cafe Group create their own coffee blend with Blendly the speciality coffee roaster allows them to develop sales locally as a large number of customers want to drink products at home.

The Important of suppliers that integrate into our customer experience is an important part of way Blendly the commercial coffee roaster is becoming a building block in the growth of the independent coffee shops helping customers such as Antlers Cafe.

Blendly work with the customers to develop custom tastes and flavours for the independent coffee shops allowing coffee to be at the Heart of there Business

Retail Sales – Helping your customers buy Local – Around your coffee flavour and taste Understanding that you the trained Barista and Coffee shop professional has created your own coffee taste is a theme that runs through the services and the products you chose – This allows your products to be sold locally to local customers that enjoy the overall experience

Developing new customers – and building your service – Customers are always looking for new innovation and new ways to associate with innovation and transparent services – Lifestyle and life choice is a big part of customers Identity and their relationship with you are an extension of their choices – Blendly.co.uk understands that this allows customers to access products unique to them self and access them when they require them. That’s why Blendly allows you to connect your coffee blend to your customer and allow them to take the product home or have it delivered

Creating Extra Opportunities – Blendly marketplace As your coffee blend it confected and designed for retail sales – Its also designed to help you build sales and develop your coffee around your community, Coffee is unique to you and unique to the person that enjoys it every day, And with your Blend being Active on your Blendly Marketplace it allows you to develop more sales and more opportunities both in-house and online allowing Blendly to ship directly to your customer the blend that they tasted in the shop, Buiding put loyalty and service with customers

Blendly Coffee Blends Shipped in March May Have Been Mixed with Medical Grade Marijuana

The UK coffee roaster Blendly has recalled 100 tons of coffee blends after discovering that the South American based coffee blends were potentially mixed with medical grade marijuana.

The incident was reported by thousands of coffee shops complaining that they were running out of cheese cakes, scones, cheese and ham paninis with customers drinking the coffee. The said customers were having uncontrollable eating, followed by uncontrollable laughter after being presented their lunch time bills which on many cases were reaching upwards of hundreds of pounds during there Easter coffee break.

According to Peter Spliff, Blendly’s Operations and Distribution Partner that the potentially exposed batch was due to be sent out to its European customers in Amsterdam, however a lunch time coffee break with the operations team allowed the coffee to be distributed within its UK customer base.

The Blendly customer service team have located the affected customers and are having a hard time to do the recalls because they are asking for more of it.

Blendly is a speciality coffee roaster that creates unique coffee blends for independent coffee shops. It’s CTAPS (Coffee Tasting and Profiling System) allows their customers to create and manage their own speciality coffee blend by giving them direct access to the production and manufacturing base – allowing them to choose the mix of beans, grind, roast, certification, bag sizes and all the other factors that makes up the perfect coffee blend.

The company are now currently reviewing its internal policy with regard to coffee breaks and are considering to increase the number of coffee breaks and frequency.

Customers can still go to Blendly’s website to purchase great coffee blends for your needs, but now without the exposure to medical grade marijuana.

To find out more, go to this link.

Coffee Replaces Beer as the Drink of Choice for Students

According to research published in the Telegraph, coffee replaces beer as the drink of choice for students. More students are drinking coffee during the day while studying and fewer are going out late into the night.

Working with Blendly, companies like Food Fusion in Dundee created their own coffee blend using speciality coffee beans. Blendly is a speciality coffee roaster that specialise in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing number of Restaurants, Coffee Shops and Baristas. Better Fresher Quicker and more Transparent coffee

However, the service does not stop there. Blendly allows customers to have the blend shipped to there homes or friends, Via its online facility called Blendly.co.uk – That connects to its own production lines allowing shops and customers to experience more types of flavours and tastes from the Selection Fresh roasted Inventory

Creating a freshly roasted coffee straight from the roaster within 3 days Students can purchase there own Barista Plans allowing them to create there own coffee blend – The Blends come with your own name on them fully customizable

This type of interaction is great for Companies like Food Fusion in Dundee that used www.blendly.co.uk to create its coffee blend.

Shops like Food Fusion offer Great Coffee and superb food with a selection of high-quality cakes, confectionary and traybakes which are all produced by Scottish manufacturers,

And working with Blendly it also Allows its customer to Take the Coffee Home Or order it direct from the Blendly portal.

Coffee is so important for students with the National Union of Students has charted the rise in popularity of gourmet coffee among students in a report, which emphasised: “Students’ Unions will need to embrace the whole coffee experience.

The UK coffee shop market has enjoyed its biggest period of growth since 2008. Over the last five years, the market rose by 37%, up from £2.4 billion in 2011 to reach an impressive £3.4 billion in 2016 Food restaurants and sandwich shops have increased sales of the hot drink three times faster than specialist outlets over the last nine years

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9617479/Coffee-replaces-beer-as-drink-of-choice-for-cash-strapped-students.html

The Dalmore Inn – Great Food & Great Coffee Experience with Blendly

Fresh coffee opens 7 days a week: 10am – 9pm with more and more people looking for choice and quality. The Dalmore Inn is a great destination for great services and great food – and fresh artisan speciality coffee.

Located just outside the market town of Blairgowrie, the Dalmore coffee experience attracts travelers and customers from all over the country. The Dalmore is also a local social hub allowing locals to catch up for a chat over great coffee.

The Dalmore Inn and Resturant in the heart of Scotland, the restaurant takes great pride in sourcing fresh local ingredients to ensure our menu is varied and reflects our love of Scotland! our chefs, David Cochrane and Iain Naysmith, thoroughly enjoy creating each and every item on our menu as well as creating daily specials using whatever is in season.

The Dalmore growing community of food and coffee lovers is one of the growing numbers of destination that offer great coffee roasted fresh coffee from Blendly.

The Dalmore is also home of the great entertainment with regular local events and wine tastings and is the home of the local wine club.

Blendly the commercial coffee roaster understand that more people are looking for more choice and with palates changing with the selection of quality food being made available Blendly allow its customers to create their own coffee experience and delivered fresh.

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

With Quality food and service at the top of Dalmore’s agenda, they understand that more and more top establishments 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.

The UK coffee shop market has enjoyed its biggest period of growth since 2008. Over the last five years, the market rose by 37%, up from £2.4 billion in 2011 to reach an impressive £3.4 billion in 2016.

According to Mintel The UK consumers’ love of coffee shops, for some, the draw of the kitchen remains too tempting. Half (51%) of coffee drinkers prefer to drink hot drinks at home rather than out-of-home, including 55% of men and 47% of women. The opportunity to drink and post your own coffee blend has much appeal to coffee customers.

Research conducted discovered that 81 percent of us spend roughly three and a half hours working from a coffee shop every week.

Have a Great up of Coffee at the Dalmore

Coffee-shopping :

Coffee-shopping” is a trend that’s disrupting the traditional brick and mortar retail experience. When customers are coffee-shopping, they peruse in-stock items on a tablet, rather than on the shelves and racks of a retailer. It’s so named for the social, cafe-like, atmosphere that’s designed to entice shoppers to spend time in physical locations.

If Christmas shows us one thing in the retail industry, it’s that brands need to engage with consumers and take them on a multi-channel journey, where they feel an emotional attachment to the store and are engaged enough to enter and make a purchase.

The Brexit affect overseas shoppers are being attracted to the UK by the extra spending power the weak pound is giving them. This has been a particular boon to the luxury industry – as we’ve mentioned in earlier articles, luxury watches in the UK are 20% cheaper than anywhere else in the world at the moment.

The Dalmore has created a coffee blend with the help of Blendly.co.uk Blendly the commercial coffee roaster understand that more people are working out of coffee shops thus coining the new term, “Coffice”. Rather than commuting to a boring old office, they take their laptops to their local coffee shops where they can tap into the internet with wifi and power outlets to recharge devices – with great coffee to recharge oneself. The size of the “Coffice” economy is extensive, as four out of five Brits have worked from a coffee shop and do so regularly.

Al Duomo Brighton Developed a Unique Coffee Blend with Blendly

Al Duomo is one of Brighton’s most popular and long-established Italian restaurants where coffee has always been at the heart of its service. Al Duomo is ran by the Taverna family. They have trusted Blendly to create The Al Duomo Dark Italian Espresso.

Their blend was developed by Blendly speciality coffee roasters that specialise in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing number of restaurants, coffee shops and baristas. Fresher, quicker, better and more transparent coffee.

At Al Duomo coffee is at the heart of a great coffee experience. Located in Brighton where according to reports Brightonians are the biggest coffee drinkers in the UK, spending an average of £177 a head per year,

Blendly.co.uk allows its customers such as Al Duomo to select and make a coffee blend unique to them self according to their choice of beans and their pallets to create products unique to the customers.

Al Duomo has been serving great coffee to over 4.5 million customers and continues to be a much loved local family run Italian Pizzeria, With a philosophy was good food, good service and value for money. –At Al Duomo Its coffee is an important part of its Menu. As it source products direct from the best suppliers and working with blendly.co.uk we have unique and transparent coffee product that underpins our philosophy

And with each coffee customer spending an average of £2,160 a year working from coffee shops – but we close business deals worth £14.5bn to the UK economy’ Findings from the research included – Coffee is an important product

Al Duomo Offer a warm, friendly, Italian atmosphere with authentic Italian restaurant food. The restaurant, bar, and coffee shop is open 363 days a year ” and Al Duomo understands Coffee-shopping “is a trend that’s disrupting the traditional brick and mortar retail experience. When customers are coffee shopping, they peruse in-stock items on a tablet, rather than on the shelves and racks of a retailer. It’s so named for the social, cafe-like, atmosphere that’s designed to entice shoppers to spend time in physical locations.

Coffee Blends vs Single Origins – It’s All to Enjoy

Why Do Coffee Roasters Favour Blends?

Why is it that it is rare to walk into a café and get your coffee made from just Ethiopian coffee beans, or just Costa Rican coffee beans? Simply put, roasters try to give their consumers the best of a few different beans to make the coffee as complex as possible. A coffee with good mouthfeel (eg Brazil) is no good without aroma (add some Papuan New Guinea) or aftertaste (add some Mexican Altura). Coffee aficionados love tasting single origin coffees to taste the nuances in those coffees, but if you are a café trying to maximize your revenue by satisfying as many people as possible, you will want to give them espresso with mouthfeel, aroma, aftertaste, good crema, acidity and smoothness but not bitterness.

Simply put, roasters try to give their consumers the best of a few different beans to make the coffee as complex as possible. A coffee with good mouthfeel (eg Brazil) is no good without aroma (add some Papuan New Guinea) or aftertaste (add some Mexican Altura). Coffee aficionados love tasting single origin coffees to taste the nuances in those coffees, but if you are a café trying to maximize your revenue by satisfying as many people as possible, you will want to give them espresso with mouthfeel, aroma, aftertaste, good crema, acidity and smoothness but not bitterness.

Think of a coffee roaster like a chef mixing in many ingredients to make his/her signature dish. Those ingredients (for arguments’ sake let’s say they are celery sticks, cream, butter, pumpkin, spices and stock) on their own are not overly inviting, but mixed together and cooked for the right amount of time and they transform into an amazing gourmet cream soup that can fetch $20 a bowl at a good restaurant! Just as a chef tries to create synergy (the end product being much better than the sum of its individual parts), so too does a coffee roaster.

Roasters can create blends for complementarity sometimes and at other times to create contrasts – depending of course on what their wholesale customer may think their consumers would be interested in drinking. They may find a couple of beans that go really nicely together, such as Ethiopian and Brazilian and another couple that stand in stark contrast with each other such as Sumatran and Kenyan and tailor blends based on those similarities and differences.

What is really interesting about the blending process is that a roaster’s blend may need to change from time to time and the large coffee companies will have cuppers who continually cup their blends to ensure that their integrity of the blend does not change over time. For example the roaster may use a Guatemalan bean from a particular plantation in their signature blend. Over time, the taste of the roasted beans from that plantation may change due to a number of factors: climate change, a change in the way those beans have been fermented, dried or stored or a change in the soil conditions. This in turn will impact on the overall taste of the roaster’s blend. Now the roaster won’t want the overall taste of the blend to change because they have loyal wholesale customers who like it and they in turn want to keep their paying customers satisfied from week to week. This will mean that the roaster will have to re-assess those Guatemalan beans and either substitute them with something else or change their weighting in the blend.

The golden rule for roasters is to create a flavour profile and be consistent with it.Examples of some blends we have created in the past and which we now use in our training rooms can be found on the blendly.co.uk

Examples of some blends we have created in the past and which we now use in our training rooms can be found on the blendly.co.uk

When is Coffee Blended – Before or after Roasting?
Some argue that blending pre-roasting can achieve a unique coming-together of flavours that cannot be achieved by roasting individual origins then blending. Beans that have been blended before roasting are typically characterised by all being the same colour.

Others argue that you have to maximise the flavour of each origin as they will not all want the same time in the roasting chamber. Beans that have been blended after roasting are typically characterised by being different colours.

Generally, blending post roasting occurs because:
– A small bean will roast at a different rate to a large bean
– Beans with different “hardness” or density will roast at different rates
– Beans with different moisture contents will roast at different rates

As past coffee roasters ourselves, to be honest, there is no right answer. Most roasters these days practice both methods depending on which beans they are using.

Single Origins vs Blends – Which type of coffee is better?
Purists would argue that you cannot top a great single origin coffee and that you must be very careful not to destroy the greatness of a coffee by mixing it carelessly with another.

But most coffee companies in Australia sell blends therefore arguably blends must be better. These companies probably want to offer their wholesale cafe customers and in turn their consumers a complex tasting coffee, giving them more than just one attribute that a single origin may be able to offer them.

At the end of the day though, nobody can say that one particular coffee is better than another or one blend any better than another. All we know is that if you have a half-decent machine even at home, buying single origins after drinking blends all your life can be a refreshing experience and a thoroughly enriching one. but the Choice is up to you