Fellside

We're proud as punch to have developed our first ever blend, specifically designed for use as an espresso, but roasted light enough to use through your favourite filter brewing method too if desired.

Paying homage to Jonathan's first ever business, Fellside Coffee, we've designed this blend in a way that celebrates the taste of coffee that Jonathan used to serve outside in all weathers on the van, most well known outside St Mary's Church, Windermere, his hometown and just a few miles down the road from our Roastery in Kendal. 

We're currently using two natural processes, both sustainably sourced, ethical coffees in our Fellside Espresso Blend, we will aim to have the same taste profile year-round, but may change the farm or lot in question from time to time due to speciality coffee seasonality.

60% Brazil - Ridgeline

To produce Ridgeline, we work with the Cerrado Growers Federation in Minas Gerais to bring in a slightly higher altitude community project, sitting at 1150 MASL, for a complex full-bodied and rich offering, The growers federation in the region is responsible for ensuring local labour practices are followed to the letter, along with giving fixed salaries, giving out bonuses and incentivising workers childrens to enrol in local school. 

The Cerrado region is well known to produce rich and heavy notes with big body; Ridgeline is curated to produce consistent notes of smooth sweet chocolate.

In Brazil, coffee cherries are picked mechanically for the most part, as with how large their farms are, picking by hand is unachievable - cherries are sorted by hand after picking.

40% Myanmar - A Lel Chaung

Myanmar, previously known as Burma, has a particularly storied recent history; only declaring their independence as a nation in 1948 - with speciality coffee only starting to be grown in the years from 2011, after political reforms drove for a better agricultural program, eradicating opium growth. Our friends Christian and Shirani from Indochina Coffee have helped drive education in this sector, with their first shipment of coffee being the first to come from Myanmar to the UK in 2017. They have helped farmers to sell for higher prices and produce incredible quality.

A Lel Chaung is brought to us by the Shwe Taung Tu farmers, translating roughly to 'Golden Farmers' - with over 3000 Danu and Pa-O small holder farmers working in tandem, over 60% of these farmers are female producers. Cherries are hand sorted after picking by hand for maximum quality control. 

Process: Natural

Location: Cerrado, Minas Gerais and Ywangan, Shan State

Altitude: 1200 MASL

Flavour Notes: Milk Chocolate, Maple Syrup and Vanilla

Roast Level: Medium

Varietal: Catuai