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Crafting Your Signature Coffee Blend: From Bean to Brew – its more that sticking a label on the bag

In the world of coffee aficionados, there’s a unique pleasure in crafting your own signature blend. It’s not just about putting a label on a bag; it’s about curating an experience that reflects your taste preferences, values, and objectives. Creating your own coffee blend involves a deep understanding of the global commodity base of green beans, a robust supply chain with quality control measures, production and distribution tools, designing a captivating label, testing the taste profile, and scaling the blend for broader consumption. Let’s dive into the journey of crafting your perfect cup.

Understanding the Global Commodity Base of Green Beans:

Coffee, one of the most traded commodities globally, originates from diverse regions worldwide. From the highlands of Ethiopia to the plantations of Colombia, each coffee-growing region contributes unique flavors, aromas, and characteristics to the beans. Understanding the nuances of these origins helps in selecting the right beans for your blend. Factors such as altitude, soil composition, and climate profoundly influence the flavor profile of coffee beans.

Building a Quality-Controlled Supply Chain:

A quality-controlled supply chain is crucial for ensuring consistency and excellence in your coffee blend. This involves establishing relationships with trusted coffee suppliers who source beans directly from growers or cooperatives. Implementing rigorous quality control measures at every stage, from bean selection to roasting, guarantees the integrity of your blend. Regular inspections, cupping sessions, and adherence to international standards ensure that only the finest beans make it into your blend.

Production and Distribution Tools:

To bring your coffee blend to market, you need efficient production and distribution tools. Investing in state-of-the-art roasting equipment allows you to precisely control the roast profile, enhancing the flavor complexity of your blend. Partnering with experienced roasters or mastering the art of roasting yourself adds a personal touch to the process. For distribution, leveraging technology for online sales, partnering with local cafes, or establishing your own coffee shop expands your reach and accessibility.

Designing a Captivating Label:

The label of your coffee blend serves as its visual identity, communicating its story and essence to consumers. A well-designed label should reflect your brand ethos, evoke emotions, and stand out on the shelves. Consider elements such as typography, imagery, color palette, and sustainability messaging to create a compelling label that resonates with your target audience. Whether minimalist or vibrant, the label should encapsulate the journey of your blend and entice customers to experience it.

Testing the Taste Profile:

The taste profile of your coffee blend is perhaps the most critical aspect of its success. Through meticulous blending and cupping sessions, you can fine-tune the flavor profile to align with your preferences and appeal to your target market. Experiment with different ratios of beans from various origins, adjusting roast levels and processing methods until you achieve the perfect balance of acidity, body, and aroma. Soliciting feedback from trusted peers or conducting consumer taste tests helps validate your blend’s appeal.

Scaling for Success:

As demand for your coffee blend grows, scalability becomes essential. Scaling production while maintaining quality requires strategic planning and investment in infrastructure. Streamlining processes, optimizing supply chain logistics, and expanding distribution channels enable you to meet increasing demand without compromising on consistency or integrity. Additionally, fostering brand loyalty through exceptional customer service and engagement ensures sustained growth and success in the competitive coffee market.

In conclusion, creating your own coffee blend is a multifaceted endeavor that goes beyond mere product development. It’s about crafting a complete solution tailored to your taste preferences, values, and business objectives. From sourcing the finest green beans to designing captivating labels and scaling production, every step in the journey contributes to the creation of a unique coffee experience. So, brew your passion into every cup and share the joy of your signature blend with the world.

Glocalization the future of coffee shops in the UK : The Highlander Coffee Chain Keeps everything Glocalized

The Highlander coffee chain working with blendly.co.uk  allows local baristas to talk about the Provenance of its coffee, with tastes that are unique to the local population allowing them to serve the coffee to a Growing Number of customers that want Transparent products that are unique to them and there life choices 

According to a report by Allegra World Coffee Portal, the UK coffee shop market grew by 7.9% in 2019 to reach a total market value of £10.1 billion. This growth is expected to continue in the coming years, with projections suggesting that the market will reach a value of around £13 billion this year in 2023

More recent predictions see the coffee shops Overall, the UK coffee shop industry is expected to continue evolving in 2023, with a focus on sustainability, speciality drinks, plant-based options, online ordering and delivery, and health and wellness.

Overall, the coffee shop and cafe industry is steadily recovering. U.S. coffee chain sales grew by 10% from June 2021 to June 2022, getting very close to reaching pre-pandemic sales.

But operators are also looking at the bigger picture the Low Carbon Economy and associated government policy having a bigger effect. With the global conversation moving away from the advantages of globalisation to the advantages of a more decentralised world, built around the butcher  baker and the candlestick-maker, as an idea that all our goods and services are going to be local 

Glocalization is a combination of the words “globalization” and “localization.” The term is used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally but is also adjusted to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.

Planning policy and emergence of the  15 minuet City, since it was first outlined in 2016 by Carlos Moreno, a Colombian professor in urban planning at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, the model has been embraced by city authorities in Paris, Seattle, Bogotá, Melbourne, Shanghai and beyond. In the UK, cities including Oxford, Bristol, Birmingham and Canterbury have proposed versions of the scheme

With More Operators looking at building their networks around accessibility, the Highlander Caffe Chain is an example of this strategy, Keeping everything local, Even its Coffee Blend working with blendly.co.uk  The Highlander Caffe chain allows local baristas to talk about the Provenance of its coffee, with tastes that are unique to the local team that serve  the coffee to a Growing Number of customers that want Transparent products that are Quique to them self and there lifestyles 

Blendly allows local baristas to build up local networks of coffee drinkers Blendly products directly to consumers using new methods of distribution  that  completely bypass traditional sales channels – allowing greater customer interaction and choice 

There are considerable advantages to working with Blendly. It can considerably reduce the costs of distribution, thereby giving greater value than established brands as well as giving a better understanding of the product origins .

 

The Low Carbon Economy and Its Impact on Businesses: Navigating a Decentralized World

In recent years, the global conversation has been shifting from the advantages of globalization to the merits of a more decentralized world. Governments around the globe are looking inward, focusing on protectionism, job security, and the safeguarding of domestic production. High subsidies are being allocated, and growing threats to national security have prompted a reevaluation of priorities. Key areas such as energy, food, and health security are gaining prominence, along with the everyday effects on people and businesses, notably the cost of living crisis.

This evolving worldview is driving policy changes, particularly in the realm of the low-carbon economy. The transition towards a low-carbon economy is bringing about changes for individuals and companies at an ever-increasing pace. Simultaneously, we’re witnessing a surge in government regulations aimed at facilitating the day-to-day management of this transformation.

According to the Economist Across the rich world, Governments are implementing more than ten times as many policies as they were each year in 2010 – 2015 If their Manifestos are anything to Go by, Politicians Plan a lot more in the coming years to achieve dominance in renewable energy, Electric Trasport and Generative AI this is the biggest policy shift in a generation 

As we navigate this transition, With the move towards decentralization, there is a concern that we might be losing out on the innovation needed to tackle these pressing global issues.

With more Policy comes more regulation and more uncertainty in an already changing world requiring greater flexibility for companies to deal with compliance costs, Market Access, create  Innovation 

Blendly.co.uk work with companies, In this uncertain world. Blendly  PAAS is a digital platform that allows volume coffee users to create their own unique blends of coffee using a wide range of high-quality green coffee beans from around the world.

The platform offers a range of tools and features to help coffee roasters to create their blends, including online roasting profiles, custom labeling and packaging options, and access to a global network of coffee suppliers.

Blendly.co.uk PAAS also provides customers with a range of benefits, such as greater transparency and control over the coffee roasting process, the ability to create unique and personalized coffee blends, and access to high-quality green coffee beans that are not available through traditional channels.

While there may be other coffee roasting companies in the market, Blendly.co.uk PAAS differentiates itself through its digital platform and the range of tools and features it offers to customers.

This can provide coffee shops and roasters with greater flexibility, control, and customization in their coffee blends, which can help them to stand out in a crowded market and meet the specific tastes and preferences of their customers.

 

 

Blendly’s Taste Match Service – How Does It Work?

We all have a favourite coffee brand/flavour that perhaps we have tasted in the past and really liked. Our Taste Match Service allows you to match taste of any Brand/Blend.

You can even chat to a roaster through our website, and they can help you with any questions you might have.

Send us your Taste Match request with just one easy step.

Click here, Type in your beloved coffee brand, your name and email address and send your request through to us to let the magic happen.

We will send you a recommendation of profile to try at Blendly.co.uk, which will match your requested taste.

This recommendation will be from one of our blenders who has access to the Cupping Notes and Profiles of 1000s of brands, allowing you to optimise and name your Profile as per your liking.

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The Giddy Goose – Brand Transparency All The Way To Pond

The White Goose and Giddy Goose could easily be a place you’d walk into in London or New York. It sets the perfect tone for any occasion, any time of year, whether you’re just visiting the city, out with the family, on a date, or want somewhere to relax after a hard day at the office

This award-winning group, Is part of a growing number of superb organisations that understand the value of transparency, To Build Value and Trust with its growing customers base According to research by Innova Market Insights, transparency will be one of the top trends for the food and drink industry in 2021, with six in 10 global consumers interested in learning more about where foods come from.

Working with Commercial Coffee Roaster Blendly.co.uk The Giddy Goose  and white goose developed a Coffee blend that allows its customers to better understand what goes into their everyday cup of coffee The Giddy Goose 5 Bean to the Pond  Blend 

The Giddy Goose 5 been to the pond blend is a coffee blend that creates an espresso with a great depth of flavour produced by the mix of the freshest Brazilian, Costa Rican, Indonesian Sumatra and Mocha Djimmah beans.

Blendly.co.uk works with companies to develop unique flavours and tastes based on the skills of the baristas that serve and engage customers every day, Blendly.co.uk have a global marketplace based on making the everyday cup of coffee better and more transparent –

Blendly.co.uk commercial coffee roaster operates a Data production Supply Chain model that allows more customization to be placed into the product supply chain allowing customers to choose more about how they want their products and services on a much smaller scale

Currently, the coffee industry is traditional in its approach to the use of new techniques. This opens up endless possibilities for new brands coming to market and the competitive nature that coffee brands can deploy using technology as part of core strategy.

Blendly commercial coffee marketplace creates transparent access to fresh coffee production via our scalable production facility, giving the global coffee consumer opportunities to transmit greater economic and social value in their coffee blends.

Blendly allows your coffee blends to be developed, shared and redistributed across multiple sales channels giving your brand and its values a wider audience. Blendly also enables your brand to have automation support and management as your coffee reputation grows.

Blendly marketplace allows sustainable and transparent access to fresh coffee production for the global coffee consumer by giving them transparent access to the components that make up their everyday cup of coffee.

 

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Ref:- Feeling Peckish Take a Gander down to the Giddy Goose 

Feeling peckish? Take a gander down to The Giddy Goose

 

 

Award Winning Bulldog Frog – Building a better coffee – Blendly.co.uk

Creating a great community around Great Coffee. The Bull Dog Frog Established by Perthshire duo Jessica Meehan and Graham Dunbar, The Bulldog Frog is leading the way in understanding that One of the primary consumer-driven trends  is the desire for the coffee shop to be a community space, linked closely to a neighborhood  its residents and their families

Jessica Meehan and Graham Dunbar Created the Name for the award-winning brand The Bull dog frog –  inspired by the couple’s bulldog Belle, fondly nicknamed by family as the Bullfrog. With family values at their heart, the couple thought it seemed like the perfect fit.

For so many people today, the home is also the workplace, and having a place to go-to for community interaction and good coffee is increasingly important to consumers.  The Bull Dog Frog is focused on family , and great coffee

And coffee sits at the Core – The Bulldog frog worked with Blendly.co.uk the Perthsire coffee roaster that allowed them to create your own coffee blend  The bulldog Frog blend was developed from coffee beans harvested around the world.

The Bull Dog Frog
The Bull Dog Frog Take home today

Creating the Bull Dog Frog Blend The process is simple and easy to manage on the Blendly website from the comfort of your computer. You get to pick what goes into your favorite coffee with the click of a mouse.

Blendly.co.uk also help us distribute the coffee to all our customers via their online portal, With their Barista Distributor program  – allowing us to stay connected and keep coffee cups fill at home with their unique service  Blendly allows us to grow and manage our own network of coffee drinkers

Coffee is an ever-growing commodity all over the world. The customers getting more and more interested, experimental and enthusiastic with the art of coffee making, of blending, roasting and are growing more curious about how their coffee is being processed. There is no longer a secret kept to these curious customers,  Blendly has allowed individuals, coffee entrepreneurs to join us, spread the concept of “Blendlying”, and “Barista Distributors”.

 

Barista Tools For The New Tomorrow

Blendly understands that we and our palates are unique. Blendly marketplace tools allow users to develop great-tasting unique coffee by mixing the commodities that make up your everyday bag of coffee, providing them with the opportunity to share that experience with others.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools were developed to better integrate the components of coffee into the lives of coffee lovers, enabling us to create unique coffee flavours and tastes, and provide a platform to allow everyone to develop the skills needed to produce great coffee.

Blendly.co.uk blend repository is part of the blendly.co.uk range of coffee tools that has been developed over years of roasting coffee for customers all over the country. It contains the feedback from baristas and customers that use the Blendly.co.uk marketplace.

The blendly.co.uk blend repository allows an instant understanding of the makeup of coffee flavours that are tested by the many professional baristas and coffee lovers that use the market place every day to get the best from their coffee.

The Blend repository is a published repository of recipes based around the commodities that are used to create coffee blends and have been used, tested and tasted served by baristas and customers all over the country

The Blend repository allows you  to replicate the flavour of global and local brands, and contains the cupping notes that can be used to reference the creation of your own unique brand

With so many coffee brands and so many coffee distributors, the blendly.co.uk  team can help you develop your own blend and create the cupping notes then publish the results.  Every Online account allows you to create and publish your own cupping notes, so that you can evaluate and taste match of many of the worlds global and local brands and compare your own findings with others.

Building your own cupping notes is building your own brand based on your ability to develop your palate from the various flavour components, roasts and serving methods. Understand that local conditions can affect the flavour of your coffee blend. This ability to understand the mix of beans, the local conditions and the way the coffee is served helps extend your skills and understanding to friends, family and colleagues.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools can be accessed through a range of account types that allow the full range of the your skills to be managed. As you build your understanding of coffee, you can change your subscription service and take advantage of volumised pricing and delivery options.  Upgrading your subscription service gives you a gateway to blends published by other marketplace users,  helping you build knowledge and skills. The blendly.co.uk marketplace also helps manage your coffee stock, whether for home or business. Predictive Ordering allows you to automatically manage your coffee, keeping it fresh and available when you need it.  Predictive ordering also allows you to manage other peoples coffee supply, whether for home, office, family or friends. Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools are constantly evolving and allow you to input into the ongoing development of the marketplace.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace is built for coffee lovers and at its heart is sustainability and transparency to help us grow.  Our ongoing mission is to develop new tools, create new opportunities and establish new routes to market and share these within the blendly.co.uk coffee marketplace. We will work to create and develop innovation with partners and coffee drinkers and extend our tools across the global supply chain using our revenue sharing system developed around our barista Distributor programme.  This is a key feature of our ongoing strategy to promote sustainable thinking and development within the Blendly.co.uk marketplace and it is our aim to extend this across the larger networks that we work with and manage.

If you like to work with the Blendly Marketplace, you can reach out to us at blendly.co.uk

14 Reasons Why People Love Blendly for Home Coffee

Blendly was created to allow transparent access to the coffee beans that go into everyone’s everyday cup of coffee, allowing you to create your perfect home coffee espresso, filter, Aeropress or the perfect coffee your home appliance.

  1. A unique coffee system developed to suit your coffee palate and help you manage your coffee supply at home.
  2. Used by baristas nationally to create perfect coffee for their customers.
  3. Dedicated Online Support – To help you develop your coffee blend 
  4. Baristas blends – access established Baristas blends and unlimited aroma and taste opportunities. 
  5. Share with friends and family – share your unique and customisable blend with friends and family
  6. Global Blend Repository – match your favorite brand created by a global community 
  7. Cupping Notes – Help you create your perfect coffee blend created from a global inventory of beans from all over the world. 
  8. Blended By You – Roasted fresh for your home 
  9. Custom Label – Enter the name of your blend, build your own Home Coffee moments 
  10. Predictive Ordering – Never run out of coffee again with our predictive ordering system.
  11. Choice of accounts – Select any of our Barista Plans and join the coffee community 
  12. Connect with a Barista – Connect with local Coffee experts across the country 
  13. Build your coffee network. Build your own network of coffee drinkers with a Community Builder Account and manage coffee for your friends, family, and colleagues.
  14. Buy Forward – Treat your friends to a coffee at home with online coffee credits.
  15. Its Fun to share and drink great coffee

Create Your Own Coffee Blend and Get it Delivered Straight to Your Door

People are always looking out for products that identify with them, reflecting their character and personality, traits that are unique to themselves. The coffee market has grown significantly over the past 20 years and blends are consistently evolving to accommodate changing palates and preferences.  These are amongst the many reasons why more and more people are switching away from their usual coffee brands to Blendly.

We support your choice. Blendly is a one stop, online coffee roasting and blending service created for Baristas but now available to coffee lovers with no professional experience. Creating something unique for people to enjoy is at the heart of Blendly. We want to give you tools to create blends that are synonymous with you.

Online Coffee Blending. The Blendly coffee marketplace allows clients to customize their coffee down to the finest of detail allowing for the creation of unique coffee blends.  Chances are, if you start blending now, the resulting coffee blend could be a world first!

Despite offering the best variety and quality of coffee beans available, Blendly offers staggering value for money with unmatched roasting and blending flexibility compared to other coffee brands out there, we believe our offering is one of a kind.

Knowledge is Power. So what are the secrets to blending?  Blending is an art that can take years to acquire and are founded on an understanding of how the factors such as soil type, climate and altitude contribute to the unique qualities of the bean and applying this knowledge to produce consistent cup profile through practice, trial and error.  If you’ve never blended before, don’t be daunted, there is plenty of help out there for you.

To help guide you, all our coffee beans are curated within our CTAPS ™ system (Coffee Tasting and Profiling System), where you’ll find a description of the bean, cupping notes and taste profiles.  Armed with this knowledge, you can create your own coffee blend based on what you have profiled from some of the top brands around.

You can also compare these notes with the other coffee blends you’ve created or with the other coffee blends created by other people.

Don’t be Shy, Blend In!

Blending with Blendly couldn’t be easier. On our blend creator portal you’ll be able to add beans from the CTAPS and assign a percentage of the total blend for each bean.  Don’t forget to make sure all the quantities add up to 100%!  Once you’ve assigned beans to your blend, you can add a description and the best part – your blend name which will be printed on the pack.  Coffee customization is our specialty and you can adjust your blend anytime.

Sharing is caring. Once you’ve created and ordered your blend on the Blendly platform, you’ll be given a link to your unique coffee blend that you can share with friends, family, and colleagues for them to enjoy. Do ask them for feedback and please do share it with us on our facebook page!

Safe and Secure Delivery. Blendly aims to deliver coffee orders within 72 hours of processing.  Don’t be concerned that this is not quick enough for you, some things can’t be rushed.  Part of the roasting process includes a stage called “Degassing” which requires the beans to rest for a period of time.

Depending on location and quantity ordered, your coffee will be delivered either by courier service or Royal Mail in accordance with the COVID-19 government guidelines.

Ready to Blend? Why not get started today?  Simply visit our website at blendly.co.uk and see why baristas and cafes up and down the country are blending their coffee with us.

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