Seasonal Festive 250g Beans

This seasonal blend brings together some of the world's finest Arabica beans from four diverse coffee-growing regions, each specifically sourced to complement the others, bringing something unique to the blend. Indian Mysore offers warmth with its velvety chocolate and spicy notes, which are then enhanced by Sumatra’s cosy full body. Nicaragua adds notes of forest fruits, which, when combined with sweet Brazilian nuttiness, evoke the festive flavours of Christmas pudding. When all four origins are combined, as they are here, a truly special cup is produced that epitomises the feel of winter festivities.

Sumatra - Koperasi Pertanian Gayo Lauser Antara (KGLA) – Farmers receive specialist training, learning the latest practices in coffee cultivation and implementing environmentally friendly approaches, fostering a community of skilled and knowledgeable farmers.

India (Mysore) · Badra Estate – We have worked with the Badra Estate for over 15 years and have become firm family partners, recently visiting during an origin trip to India. The estates were built by the Mammen family in 1936 and have been run by the family ever since. The farms are located in Chickmagalur on the Bababudan Giri hills, where the first coffee plants arrived in India in 1670. We are proud to use their deliciously deep-bodied Arabica to centre and ground this festive blend.

Nicaragua · The blend also includes Nicaraguan Caturra beans, grown by 500 small-scale farmers in the Matagalpan region. Ofi, the coffee producer, is deeply integrated throughout the supply chain, establishing a credit programme that subsidises 80% of farmers’ production costs and encouraging further investment in sustainable practices.

Brazil - This microlot is Cultivated by Daterra farms in the cooperative. Grown amongst 150,000 native trees across 216 mini farms of 5-15 hectares, the steady climate, with dry-fresh winters and warm wet summers, encourages flavourful beans. These farms are some of the oldest coffee plantations in the Brazilian Santa Colomba region.

Why Our Coffee is The Best?

Sourcing the Pick of the Crop

Established relationships with producers and the coffee farming community means we can consistently source the best Arabica and Robusta beans from over 40 origins across the Coffee Growing Belt. At Kingdom Coffee we always demand the pick of the crop. We buy Grade 1 or “Strictly High Grown” – SHG coffee beans. By selecting only coffee beans from the highest elevations we can be sure that the bean has matured more slowly, grown to a larger size and with more density to create a consistently great taste profile.

There’s no denying that coffee grown at higher elevations produces the best flavour profiles, which is then sorted and graded by the farmers with greater care and attention and therefore command a higher premium price which we are very happy to pay! We believe passionately that farmers should be rewarded fairly for their hard work and the quality of their crop.

 

 

Investing in the Purest and Cleanest Roast

ROASTING BETTER: We are unique in that we roast on a clean bed of air in small batches as opposed to conventional drum roasting - only 1% of coffee is roasted this way. Air roasting elevates the natural sweetness to give a smooth and pure taste. Unlike traditional roasting, the chaff, the skin of the bean, that surrounds the raw bean is removed during the air process whilst in normal roasting this is burnt onto the bean. This makes the resultant air roasted beans more pure as the beans will taste less burnt and acidic.

CONSISTENCY: Another benefit to Air Roasting is consistency - typical roasters rely upon roasting “to colour“ which returns a high degree of variance from batch to batch. The Air Roasters rely upon exact metrics such as temperature and time with specific profiles that have been developed by our Q Grader, a certified coffee professional, to suit the particular bean. An exact science rather than guess work.

 

 

Protecting the Environment

We all have to recognise and assess our individual impact upon the environment. Our new Air Roaster uses 30% less energy than a typical roaster and reduces wasted heat by recirculating it in a fully enclosed system. We have a catalytic converter to ensure that harmful gases released are reduced by around 96%. Committing further to minimise our impact on the planet we have moved our packaging to 100% curb-side recyclable. This new packaging still protects that fresh roasted taste.

 

 

OUR BEANS are amongst the freshest on the market, being roasted to stock in the UK as opposed to importing roasted beans on a much longer timescale. Our Neotech roaster is more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and better than conventional drum roasters in that it can roast in specific small batches with unique roasting profiles that are able to compensate product variations and unfold the unique flavour of each individual coffee blend whilst reducing wasted heat by recirculating in the fully enclosed system.

Our range of Ethical coffees support our partnership with Toybox, who we aim to donate £100,000 over a period of ten years, having donated £50,000 in the last 5 years. This enabled Toybox to provide the resources needed for the street outreach team throughout 2020, conducting 240 visits to children in the most high-risk areas in Guatemala City as well as deliver 100 children across the city a warm and nutritious meal each week. Your continued support of Kingdom Coffee means that we can fund vital projects like this so thank you very much!