Blendly

Barista Distribution Partners

At Blendly we are looking for baristas that can be the focus of a global supply chain and that can develop tastes and create coffee blends for their customers and their influence; the development of blending within your working and social environment.

Looking for something else, something as well as the thing you are doing, something that you can grow for yourself, and build into something you can make and call your own, something you can put your own signature on. Unique to you and your values

You will love nothing more than engaging with customers, you will understand that
you are the last link in a chain, the focus and point of connection, and you will have understood that focus is the representation of a global supply chain – that you are happy to represent.

You will enjoy creating and blending products, and presenting and serving these ideas to your customers.

We are looking for baristas to create their special coffee blends as well as develop their influence within their working environment, to advise customer coffee shop owners in how best to develop their coffee blend around the Blendly ecosystem.

If you are looking for a little bit more and are looking at building a passive income around your coffee knowledge then why not get in touch.

Why Coffee Is Changing Your Social Shopping Experience

Social shopping is becoming the new tool for customer engagement. It allows customers to interact with products and services without getting out from their homes. This e-commerce methodology is a shopping experience which is shared with your social network of friends and contacts.

Social shopping impacts an individual’s buying process by using social media networks to share, recommend, suggest and even comment on products and services. The idea behind social shopping is that individuals are influenced by their friend’s purchases and recommendations.

Coffee blends from Blendly are roasted with the customers’ palate in mind. All coffees are made to be enjoyed and shared as a part of your social coffee experience. This allows you to integrate your coffee shop and coffee flavour in to the changing needs of your customer and the moving landscape of the high street.

If you’d like to understand better how you can enhance your customer’s social shopping experience through your coffee blend, contact us through:

Mark Wilson
Owner at Blendly
mark@blendly.co.uk
07801 833821

How Can Urban Brew at Kelvingrove Art Gallery Be at the Heart of Coffee Culture in Glasgow

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum houses one of Europe’s great art collections. It is amongst the top three free-to-enter visitor attractions in Scotland and one of the most visited museums in the United Kingdom outside of London.

Sitting just across the road, is the new artisan coffee house, Urban Brew. Unban Brew offers a great coffee great break from the cultural visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Wendy Lam Urban Brew Head of coffee understand that coffee shops are part of the cultural landscape within Glasgow. Urban brew developed a coffee blend around the Caffe culture that growing within the City and developed a coffee blend based around the traditional trading routes of the 1700s.

This is a superb coffee blend – back then Glasgow was beginning to get access to the oceans and it allowed the

import of goods and commodities from the Americas and the Caribbean which were then traded throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. These imports flourished after 1707. By 1760, Glasgow had outstripped London as the main port for some commodities.

Part of that cultural movement leads to the development of buildings like the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which houses one of Europe’s great art collections.

Coffee played a large part of the early commodity trade and our coffee blend brings together – The culture of Glasgow and the Best in South American, Indian, and Asian coffee beans and we have created – a coffee blend that’s it both bursting with flavour and unique to the Urban Brew coffee house.

Why Changing Your Coffee Blend Is Good For Your Coffee Shop

Every new customer we talk to start off by declaring that they have used the
same coffee blend for years and in their opinion it is unbeatable. But how can everyone have the world’s best coffee?

We all use several kinds of information to decide what to eat, and drink the combination of experience and sensory evaluation helps us to choose whether to consume a particular food or beverage.

All coffee customers all live in their own unique flavour world, and part of this difference lies in our genetic composition, especially within our sensory receptors. It means that the coffee you serve is a determination of as much the environment as it is blend. Letting your customers understand what is in the blend allows your customer to better associate your and your brand

Changing your coffee blend can also be a way to engage a new customer base or re-engage existing customer, a statement of growth and message to say to your customer that you are building an experience around them.

Working with Blendly you can engineer a taste that suits you or your customer all our blends are loved by many and offer a great starting point all coffee drinkers but remember how we taste coffee and what we taste is different to each individual and the taste of the product in Unique to them

Having your own coffee blend and the tasting notes allows you to engineer and influence this experience.

At the core of this experience is the coffee, the beans, the roast and skill of the barista, build the best coffee experience and blend your own.

Blendly allows baristas to create superb coffee blends and allow them to deliver with a lauadge that customers associated with the you delivering the best coffee in the world.

How to Reduce Your Coffee Costs Using Coffee Analytics

Inside your Blendly account, you can find all sorts of tools that allow you to look after your fresh coffee. Not only do we roast your coffee to order but we also help you manage your stock via the Blendly analytics.

Our Coffee analytics are designed to allow you to manage your coffee as well as your coffee environment. We help you manage the quantity you have as well as manage when you may run out with our predictive ordering service. All you need to do is enjoy.

Blendly Coffee House – The Home of the Creatives

Coffee house became a popular alternative to taverns and alehouses, they also became something else: “coffee house politicians” to air their grievances. One could argue that these intelligentsia and knowledge economy workers.

Samuel Peyps and Sir Isaac Newton were regulars – were not too dissimilar to the types of freelancers and creative class workers we find in places like The Proud East today.

But instead of ranting on Twitter or in the comments section of newspapers, Green says patrons of London’s early coffee houses rebelled in the novelty of boisterously voicing their opinions to their (almost exclusively male) companions.

Why Coffee Shops are Music to My Ears – Great Coffee at the Acoustic Cafe Group

Just as a musician takes his time to creates sounds that influence your mood, Cole the Acoustic Cafe barista and manager quickly creates a great coffee for you. Cole like any other baristas relies on the roasting skills of Blendly to define the beans that make up the Acoustic Cafe coffee blend.

Blendly allows baristas to create coffee blends from a mixture of speciality coffee beans to create and develop the worlds best coffee and coffee service. Served in in the world’s best coffee houses. The Blendly network is growing along with the the growth in UK coffee shop market which shows significant sales growth of 10% on last year and a total turnover in 2015 of £7.9 billion.

According to the latest report from Allegra World Coffee Portal: Project Café 2016 UK, the branded coffee chain segment recorded £3.3 billion turnovers across 6,495 outlets, following impressive outlet growth of 12%, adding 714 stores during 2015 and delivering sales growth of 15%.

After 17 years of considerable growth, the coffee shop sector continues to be one of the most successful in the UK economy. Costa Coffee (1,992 outlets), Starbucks Coffee Company (849) and Caffè Nero (620) remain the UK’s leading brands with 53% share of the branded chain market. Physical expansion by leading chains is a strong driver of growth, particularly market leader Costa which added 171 UK outlets and had sales growth of 14% in calendar year 2015.

Coffee Quality – Increasing Competition

Coffee quality is now expected and is being constantly improved across the

Acoustic Cafe — Smiling Man Presenting Coffee

sector due to the influence from both artisan chains and independents. In Allegra’s survey of over 16,000 consumers, artisan chain Harris + Hoole was ranked number one for coffee quality. Increasing competition provides consumers with better choice of quality coffee at home, at work and from non-specialists, with consumer choice now based on far more criteria than ever before.

The UK coffee shop market is dynamic and rapidly growing and the report shows that the UK is becoming a nation of coffee connoisseurs. Compared with last year, daily visits to coffee shops have increased and 16% of coffee shop visitors frequented a coffee shop at least once a day in 2015 compared with 14% in 2014.

Brewing with CHEMEX®

Coffee brewing instructions from CHEMEX

Like all good things, full flavour takes time — and your own special touch. The CHEMEX® coffeemaker delivers only the elements essential to rich coffee flavour, so that your personal taste and approach shine through.

Step 1: Get into the grind

Select your favourite whole bean coffee you want to enjoy and grind it to medium coarse ground.

Optional Tip: We suggest using a burr grinder because it delivers a more consistent particle size, allowing for a more even extraction and fuller bodied cup of coffee.

Step 2: Filter up

Open a CHEMEX® Bonded Coffee Filter into a cone shape so that one side of the cone has three layers, and place it into the top of the CHEMEX® brewer. The thick (three-layer) portion should cover the pouring spout.

Optional Tip: Dampen the filter with warm water to rinse and preheat the brewer. Once the water has drained through the filter completely, pour it out of the brewer while keeping the filter sealed against the coffeemaker wall.

Step 3: The scoop

Put one rounded tablespoon of ground coffee for every 5 oz. cup into the filter cone. Feel free to use more if you prefer it stronger; our CHEMEX® brewing process eliminates bitterness.

Tip: On all brewers except the pint size model, the “button” indicates the carafe is half filled and the bottom of the wooden collar/spout indicates it’s full. On the pint size brewer, the button is the full marker.

Step 4: Let it bloom

Once you have brought the appropriate amount of water to a boil, remove it from the heat and allow it to stop boiling vigorously.
Pour a small amount of water over the coffee grounds to wet them, and wait for about 30 seconds for them to “bloom”, releasing the most desirable coffee elements from the grounds.

Optional Tip: Perfect brewing temperature is about 200°F.

Step 5: First pour

After the grounds bloom, slowly pour the brewing water over the grounds while keeping the water level well below the top of the CHEMEX® (quarter inch or more).

Step 6: Brew on

Slowly pour the remaining water over the grounds, using a circular or back-and-forth motion as you pour to ensure an even soaking of the grounds.

Step 7: Toss the filter

Once the desired amount of coffee is brewed, lift the filter with
spent grounds out of the brewer and discard.

Step 8: Enjoy the perfect cup

Pour your freshly made coffee into your CHEMEX® mug and indulge in the flavour.

Stay warm

In order to keep your coffee warm you may place the CHEMEX® directly on either a glass stove top or gas flame both at low heat. If you have an electric coil stove top, you must utilize the CHEMEX® stainless steel wire grid (TKG) in between the CHEMEX® and the coils to prevent breakage. Be sure that there is a small amount of liquid in the carafe before placing it on a warm heating element.

Keep it clean

A carefully cleaned and handled CHEMEX® brewer will give you a lifetime of service. Remove the wooden handle and continue to hand wash with warm soap and water, or place the coffeemaker securely in the dishwasher.

A Perfect Pairing

The blending of art and science doesn’t end with the CHEMEX® coffeemaker. Our CHEMEX® 2-Quart Water Kettle achieves the perfect brewing temperature with functional elegance. Made from heavy-walled heat-resistant glass, our flat-bottomed kettle will ensure a delightful boiling and brewing process. The unique silicone stopper keeps the brewed water at peak temperature while venting steam, so the neck stays cool to the touch for safe handling.

Warning: Do not place the CHEMEX® Water Kettle directly on an electric coil stove top. For use with an electric coil stove top we recommend using our CHEMEX® stainless steel wire grid (TKG) between the kettle and the coils to prevent breakage and personal harm.

Coffee Blockbusters with the Birks Cinema Group

We all love a great movie, and we all love a trip to the cinema and the Birks Cinema Group is one cinema that’s worth a visit. This an amazing rural cinema showing the latest films. Spacious 100-seat auditorium – comfy seats – state of the art projection & sound. Owned by the community, the Birks is a must-visit venue to see a film, relax over coffee & cake, and a great venue for special events.

One of the company’s secret recipe for success is in its range of great food and drinks that is available and none more so that its great coffee.

Blendly is supplying coffee around Scotland, giving a value and choice and setting new opportunities for coffee outlets to develop their own coffee taste and flavours.

Blendly also allows customers to select from a range of commodities to extend the taste and make the coffee more unique to them making its their own coffee blend.

People’s palate are changing none more so than how we enjoy coffee, with more people purchasing barista style machines for their homes and purchasing more and more international origin coffees and customers expecting more.

With the high street moving away from pre-blended Italian style coffee, the industry is in the curiosity for the “science” of coffee making—improving grinding methods, better monitoring of water quality, and the types of beans that make up blends, allowing customers to better identify with taste and content of what they are drinking.

This type of transparency is allowing independent coffee chains to better establish their local brands in a growing market place which currently supplies approximately 165 million cups of tea and around 70 million cups of coffee that is consumed in the UK each day, according the UK Tea Council, the market for hot beverages can be considered extremely robust.

As commentators see the high street is transforming from a pure shopping destination to a centre for “leisure and services” as the dramatic rise of the Internet changes the retail landscape demand for high-quality, barista-style coffee in the home has risen in recent years and this has led to innovation in manual, bean-to-cup and capsule coffee machines for the home. This is also helping independent coffee and Cinema chains to better develop their brand around individual coffee blends and add better value to the customer experience.

Great Coffee For You and Super Treats For Man’s Bestfriend at Brew and Chew

Perthshire top coffee shop Brew and Chew has a great coffee and dog-friendly environment. They have a superb range of fresh food soups and a selection of sandwiches, filled baguettes, panini, cakes and scones always available.

Brew and Chew as well as looking after humans also look after your family pet and why not humans and dogs have lived in close proximity for thousands of years.

Owner of Brew and Chew, Elspeth understands that pets provide great companionship, but the benefits of looking after man’s best friend has other benefits. Studies have shown that pet owners have fewer doctor’s visits. A recent study by Katcher and Friedmann suggested seven common functions of pet ownership: companionship; something to care for; something to touch and fondle; something to keep one busy; a focus of dog attention; exercise and safety. Pets have also been indicated to have important roles in enhancing child development, the well-being of older people and may also be used in a therapeutic setting.

So if you are looking for a great high street destination with great coffee for you and superb treats for your dog Brew and Chew is the place to go.