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About Us

18/02/2019
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Introducing… David Burton

  Name and Occupation David Burton – Head Of Coffee. My role involves deciding which green coffees we source, by assessing samples from farms all around the world. I also oversee all aspects of quality control, from the grading of green coffee, to making sure that our roasts are showcasing the best of what our coffees can offer. You’re only as good as your green! How did you get into coffee? Like the majority of coffee professionals, I fell in head first (straight down the rabbit hole). I met a very enthusiastic... Read More

04/02/2019
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Introducing… Guy Snead

Next up in our ‘Introducing…’ series is the man who keeps our coffee tasting great, Guy! If you’ve ever placed an order with us, he’s the one pulling the strings so that everything goes according to plan. He’s the King of Efficiency, a bottomless pit when it comes to food, and the most curious man you’ll ever meet… Name and Occupation Guy Snead – Head Roaster. My job is to make sure that the way we roast coffee is up to date with the latest practices in the industry –... Read More

22/01/2019
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Introducing… Mike Riley

Welcome to our ‘Introducing…’ series! We’ve interviewed some of the people that make Rounton Coffee tick – whether that’s people in our team, people who we’ve met along the way, or figures in the coffee industry that help us do what we do – we want to be able to share with you the stories of the people behind the coffee you’re drinking. First up is arguably the most knowledgable mind in coffee that any of us know, the brilliant Mike Riley!  Name and Occupation I’m Mike Riley. I’m in... Read More

03/01/2019
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From Origin To Cup – Processing Coffee

Cherries make a pretty sweet treat – finding the ripest, sweetest fruits in summer, and chewing away at the luscious juicy pulp and skins as we enjoy the sweet, rich flavours, before spitting out the stone at the centre of the fruit.  This stone – or seed – to be precise, might be considered an inconvenience to our enjoyment of those delicious cherries!  With coffee cherries, it’s the exact opposite. In this case, the treasure is the two seeds at the heart of the fruit, the rest of which has... Read More

16/11/2018
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From Origin To Cup – How Coffee Grows

As Rounton Coffee Roasters nears its 5th birthday, we’ve decided that rather than telling you the story of the last five amazing years, it might be much more useful and interesting to run a series of blogs which will tell the bigger story – Coffee – From Origin to Cup. These are blogs that we wanted to write in our infancy, but at that stage, we didn’t feel that we had enough experience to speak with any authority on such topics. These days, we’re still trying to learn as much... Read More

11/09/2017

It’s been a while…

  We’ve been so busy building the business and getting amazing coffee out of North Yorkshire and now nationally that we’ve taken our eye off the blog. So as a re-introduction to this online world we wanted to say hello again with a quick overview. Welcome to the blog of Rounton Coffee Roasters. Here you will be able gain access to the world of speciality coffee through the eyes of our dedicated team of coffee professionals. This blog will allow us to share a host of interesting topics and goings on... Read More

16/11/2014

Northern Echo Feature

A former Teesside chemical engineer has launched a business that is helping farmers he befriended in the Sumatran jungle. Emily Flanagan reports DAVID Beattie had been working as a Teesside chemical engineer when he decided to take a train from the Middlesbrough and travel around the world on the Trans-Siberian railway. He travelled across Europe, Hong Kong, Russia, Mongolia and China. But it was in the Sumatran jungle that he met a group of coffee famers which altered the course of his life. While travelling around Sumatra on a moped, David decided... Read More

23/09/2014

A Warm Welcome from Rounton Coffee

As you may have seen on our website we roast our speciality coffee from a very unique old granary built in 1907. We have been working on our Roastery in North Yorkshire now for a year. We were handed the keys in September and we have worked really hard to get to the stage where we are now. We can now confidently say we have A Roastery! We have the privilege to work in such a beautiful environment. That is why we always welcome visitors to come over to share... Read More

20/07/2014
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Event Calendar 2014

We try to get out most weekends to sell our carefully roasted coffee directly to our customers.  It is only at these events we can really get the feedback that we need to make sure that we can continue to improve our service. We have been asked to publish where we are going to be, just so that you can perhaps pick up your order, or drop by and see us.  So below is a list of events that we know that we will be at for the remainder of... Read More

03/06/2014

About Us

It is rude not to have a website and to have a little bit of an introduction into who we are, and what we are doing here. So this is our version of the About Us part of the site. Who are we? Well first, there is me, David.  I am a mid thirty, (slightly) receding, with that comfort weight around the hips, guy from the North East.  I studied Chemical Engineering at Teesside University, and I have since spent my whole working career in Engineering for the Chemical and... Read More