Secondly, we wanted to offer coffees that are consistent.  Coffee roasting is an art rather than a science. Temperature gradients, first cracking point, second cracking point, bean and drum temperatures - there's a lot of variables.  Not managing these variables across each roast means inconsistency - and so your perfect coffee this week might not be the same next week.  We want to be proud of our roasting process.  We audit each roast to ensure that the Gunpowder blend you buy this week is the same as the Gunpowder you will buy next week. We do that through some clever bit of software that enables us to track and match each roast to the agreed roasting profile.

But hey, back to us.  As our 1kg roaster performed admirably through 2021 and into 2022 - it was becoming clear that we needed a bigger roaster.  Our retail sales - to online Customers were growing - but our wholesale business was also growing.  Cafes and film studios and festival sites need more than 1kg at a time.  So we then bought a 6kg roaster.  This still gives us small batch control - but allows us to satisfy larger orders without having to spend all day roasting 50 small batches.  In 2022 we were able to move into a larger location which served us well - up to now.