Hello coffeelovers! 

How's it sipping? Fruity, floral, mild, intense? 

In this short blog we look at one important factor that can have a big influence on your answer - namely, how a coffee is 'processed' immediately after picking. 

Carrow Coffee Roasters is a small and expanding business that is committed to exceptional coffee. We roast a range of ‘single-origin specialty coffees’, meaning 100% Arabica beans of the highest quality that come from a single farm or small area. Our coffees vary from season to season and are carefully sourced from small-scale producers in Africa and Latin America. As well as this direct link, we hunt out coffees that have been grown without artificial fertilizers and pesticides whenever possible. We favour a light-to-medium roast that allows a bean’s intrinsic flavour to shine through. Our roastery is located on a family farm in Beltra, Co. Sligo.

Several people have asked us recently about coffee prices so here's a short blog detailing our experiences this year.

It seems that 2021 was a year when everything became more expensive as coronavirus lockdowns restricted the supply of goods and consumers stuck on their sofas drove a simultaneous surge in demand. Timber went up, metal went up and if you wanted to buy a surfboard or bicycle you had to be quick!

Carrow Coffee Roasters is a small and expanding business that is committed to exceptional coffee. We roast a range of ‘single-origin specialty coffees’, meaning 100% Arabica beans of the highest quality that come from a single farm or small area. Our coffees vary from season to season and are carefully sourced from small-scale producers in Africa and Latin America. As well as this direct link, we hunt out coffees that have been grown without artificial fertilizers and pesticides whenever possible. We favour a light-to-medium roast that allows a bean’s intrinsic flavour to shine through. Our roastery is located on a family farm in Beltra, Co. Sligo.

We're thrilled to announce that our roastery was recently awarded Certified Organic status! It means we can now buy organically-grown coffee beans, roast and sell them as Certified Organic coffee under EU rules which require both farms and processors to have certification. In fact, quite a few of our previous coffees were organically grown, we just couldn't tell you about it.

Join us for a single-origin coffee cupping event @ Milligram Coffee in Sligo town, on Sunday November 10th from 11am-12.30pm.

Andrew is Carrow’s head roaster and a qualified Q Grader. He will explain the role of sensory analysis in coffee - essentially how we can perceive and name different flavours found in the cup and why it's worth doing. As part of this we'll explore the importance of aromas and spend some time developing our 'olfactory libraries'.

We’re thrilled to take part in the World of Coffee event in Berlin this June! It is meant to be Europe’s largest coffee trade show gathering both professionals from the industry and coffee enthusiasts. We can’t wait to meet you all there! We'll be brewing our full range of delicious coffees non-stop this Thursday, Friday & Saturday (6th-7th-8th of June) so come and meet us at the Roaster Village (table 14, Hall 1). We look forward to tasting some coffees together and we’ll also have plenty of samples to give out.