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Brrrr! It’s getting chilly

Spare a thought for your outdoor coffee machine. As temperatures drop it’s important totake extra care to make sure you protect your machine from the damage that ice can cause!So here are our top tips for keeping your coffee machine toasty this winter! wrap it up The easiest way to

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Ian & Jack in a ploughed coffee field Brazil
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A Brazilliant Time

Brazil; the land of football, samba and coffee!  After the 11-hour flight to Sao Paulo, the 4-hour drive to the small coffee hotspot of Machado in Sud de Minas we were greeted by our good friend Demilson.  Within an hour we are laughing, eating birthday cake and drinking beer in

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Products

South America Special Edition 

As our new coffees land from Colombia . . . we fly out to Brazil . . . Introducing our two new direct trade Colombian coffees, that will become our long term partners in bringing you excellent speciality coffee, whilst making an impact with farmers and their communities. It’s been

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News

We’re good under pressure

A well-maintained espresso machine is essential to making the perfect coffee. At EA, for a long time now we have had our own espresso engineers and barista trainers to help with everything from looking after your machine through to getting your grind and extraction right, to texturing your milk for

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Try Mbata

This is a beautiful coffee . . . from a beautiful country It’s a light-medium roast Ugandan Arabica coffee with hints of praline, honey and blueberry. Use the code TRYMBATA for 10% off We’re always hunting for new origins and farms we can work with, and that can often lead

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PRICE CUTS on all take-away items

PRICE CUTS: SAVE UP TO 20% The take out industry has recovered from covid shortages and the inflated shipping cost crisis, and now prices are coming back down.  We are genuinely happy to be able to pass on some BIG savings. Our full range is still plastic-free and compostable Double-wall

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Origin Report: Colombia

La Primavera Finca We’re coffee hunting again, trying to find the right coffee farm that we hope to be our long-term partner in Colombia.  The next few days are enlightening, exciting and pure joy.  We’re staying with Francisco, who along with his sister and brother have inherited the family farm and are rehabilitating

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Projects

Money down the toilet! 🚽

Whenever we are in East Africa, we’re not only checking coffee quality and sorting the next year’s crop, we are looking for opportunities to invest in communities and improve lives. We believe in the power of business to do good, and the ‘full circle’ whereby we not only trade directly,

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Origin Report: Kilimanjaro

Table of Contents Introduction It’s late November 2022, Ian and I have travelled to Tanzania and the slopes of Kilimanjaro to visit the farmers, smallholders and friends that grow our coffee. For EA the relationships in Tanzania are the oldest we have and are a key part of our story.

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