As you may already know – we are moving our roastery to Graylands Estate just south of Rusper, so only a couple of miles from our present location. Keeping it local!

This move will increase our useable space to 2700 sqf split over two levels. The new facility will allow us to have specific packing areas for our retail and foodservice accounts, a dedicated training room offering full barista training facilities, a coffee cupping and green bean quaility room allowing us to cup and sort coffee in a a more controlled environment, a meeting and presentation room, as well as a very nice roast area. The builders are doing their stuff at present with a planned moving date yet to be confirmed, but we are aiming for Nov 12th.

We like what will be our new home - again we have chosen not to be on a faceles industrial estate, but something a little different. Not only are we moving the whole kit and caboodle we are about to depart from the Probat roasting stable and move to Loring. Well that is not completely true; we‘re keep our Probat roaster and adding a Loring. We have always based our roasting on Probat coffee roasters and we have always been very pleased with the end result, but we are continually looking for ways to enhance what we do and the quaility of the coffee our customers receive. It has only taken us around a year to take this decision. Looking at all of the options open to us Loring will provide us with the opportunity to do something really special for our customers within our roasting.

Loring are an American based manufacture of coffee roasters that have been developed on totally new (cutting edge) technology which is increasingly being used by respected roasters that can only be considered to be at the top of the industry in terms roast quaility in their respective countries. So what will it change – well it won’t change anything, but it will enhance. Loring use cutting edge roast technology and super intelligent roast controls that will further enhance our roast profiling and thus the origin characteristics of the coffee. To reach these characteristics, we need the best coffee, good machinery and good routines and a strict policy to discard or demote even the most exclusive coffees if they are not up to our standard, within a narrow tolerance. There are a few other reasons why we choosing to invest in Loring. The Loring will also reduce the energy we use to roast our coffee which has to be good for the planet and this neatly dovetails into our existing ethical stance on green issues - anything that can reduce the dependency on fuel means less greenhouse gas emissions. Our maintenance costs will also be reduced.

We will take delivery of our new roaster in January.