HASBEAN Coffee
Discover Hasbean Coffee Roasters and the incredible speciality coffee they showcase.
Hasbean is a coffee roaster located in Staffordshire, UK.
On one of my trips home to the UK, while I was living in Australia, Hasbean was one of the few roasteries that came up when I googled speciality coffee UK. It seems to be going from strength to strength and proof is in the pudding as it’s one of the biggest independent coffee roasters in the UK.
With their focus on bringing the consumer closer to the origin of coffee by actually visiting the farms where it is grown, it’s easy to see why they are amongst the few roasteries leading the way in the UK.
The owner and founder Steve is a passionate sort of guy, he’s pretty much always representing his football team Sunderland on his sourcing trips and his passion for football transposes over to his love for coffee.
HASBEAN Coffee Review
The Origin
As a bit of a sucker for African coffee, I couldn’t help myself go for the Kenyan AA, Muiri. The great thing about Hasbean is that they provide a super informative description of the coffee along with a video and cupping notes and if that wasn’t enough a photo of Steve on the farm.
The Muiri farm is Organic and one of the very few in Kenya, with much of the countries coffee farms affected by coffee berry disease it is extremely common for farmers to use pesticides to combat the problem.
Kenya is a speciality coffee giant, alongside some of its East African neighbours, Kenya is highly renowned as one of the greatest coffee producing countries in terms of quality.
With a fraction of the coffee history of its Northern neighbour Ethiopia, Kenya excelled in production in the 1950’s and now has some of the most highly educated producers alongside the perfect coffee growing environment.
The Review
The coffee did the story justice. To start with the initial fragrance of the beans was like a bag of sweets, specifically Haribo cherries. That continued onto the ground coffee with a more zesty kick.
Once brewed the cup is extremely clean and that bright you can see your reflection. I couldn’t initially pick out a specific flavour other than the tanginess and almost a hint of Almond.
However, the best part of the coffee was when it cooled down a little and POW... Grapefruit. Almost as if you’re sat around the breakfast table the coffee is transformed into a refreshing can of San Pelligrino.
Super enjoyable, partly because I love grapefruit and also because it’s always a pleasure to taste something as distinct as grapefruit in a coffee.
The bright and light body of the coffee was typical of any Kenyan but had enough depth and body to entice the lovers of coffee flavoured coffee.
Brewed in a variety of ways as always, however, a V60 came out top trumps here enabling the coffees wonderful flavours to shine through.
