BTP has a new coffee partner!

Bristol's Extract Coffee Roasters

At a time when rising global coffee prices are forcing cafes on Britain’s high streets to cut costs in the coffee they buy, Boston Tea Party is bucking this trend by forging a new relationship with a Bristol-based specialty coffee roaster. A new partnership will see Extract Coffee Roasters working closely with BTP to source, blend and roast higher quality beans that will deliver better quality in the cup, full provenance and traceability right back to farm as well as improved access to training and the entire production process.

Our rather enviable reputation across the South West has been founded on serving great coffee via well trained baristas.   This move will allow us to gain access to high grade arabica coffees from some of the world’s finest estates that rotate on a seasonal basis to embrace the wonderful variety that exists within specialty coffee.

Our lovely ‘Head of Coffee’, Andrew Tucker is particularly excited about all this as he will be working with Extract’s Co-founder and Head Roaster, David Faulkner to develop our coffee offering and as well as increasing the involvement and input in development from our own Head Baristas.

A few words from him - "This new relationship we will allow us to further distance ourselves from the homogenized high street and commercial coffee market and firmly establish our place in the growing specialty coffee industry.  Extract are a small family-run artisan business founded on the very similar principals as Boston Tea Party, a proud West Country business dedicated to quality.  We’re excited about this new relationship and believe it can only mean good things for our coffee & our customers".

Extract Coffee Roasters was founded in Bristol 3 years ago on the principals of sourcing and supplying high quality specialty coffee to both retail and wholesale customers in the South West.  All their coffees are sampled by David Faulkner, the 2011 UK Cup Tasting Champion and roasted by hand in small batches on a vintage Probat roaster.

Now a few words from him “As a coffee roaster it is great to work with an innovative regional coffee business such as Boston Tea Party that is trading up into specialty coffee. The blend creation process with their team was an exiting one and I look forward to the challenge of improving the coffee year on year.”  For a bit more information about them check out Extract Coffee.

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