New Ground

New Ground are a speciality coffee roaster in heart of Headington, one of Oxfords busiest suburbs.

These guys have been around for a few years now but only relatively recently moved to their own state of the art roastery.

Having outgrown their roots after supplying the likes of Soho Farmhouse and the Oxford Kitchen, New ground changed gear and really started to accelerate towards being one of the most pioneering roasters in the UK.

Owners Dickon and Joel are passionate about the coffee they roast as well as the while at the same time creating a community around the coffee and giving something back to the community they are in.

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The coffee that they source is sourced ethically from small scale farms around the world.

They usually showcase a couple of blends a decaf and around 6-8 single origins all of which are super high quality.

They roast the coffee in Oxford on a Loring roaster which is leading the way in quality and efficiency making it one of the most environmentally friendly roasters out there.

Speciality coffee is the platform that New ground have used to focus on their community.

It's well known that prisoners are much more likely to re-offend after release if they are without training and jobs.

So New Ground use their business to create work and training opportunities for ex-offenders across the UK, giving some of the most overlooked people in society a new beginning.

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The Origin

The El Fogon from New Ground Coffee Roasters Originates from Guatemala.

Produced from multiple farmers delivering to the Fedecocagua Co-operative, this coffee is blended expertly to create the very best of what’s available at any given moment.

Established in 1969, FEDECOCAGUA is a cooperative organisation with 20,000 members. Seventy percent of co-op members are members of indigenous groups from various regions of Guatemala, including Huehuetenango, Cobán, Verapaces, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, and Zacapa.

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The organisation is made up of over 150 individual cooperatives that supply the coffee.

What to Expect

Here’s an idea of what to expect from this Guatemalan from New Ground coffee roasters.

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Team Batch brew method of choice - Aeropress.

If you loved this coffee and want it to have it in your life again order directly from New Ground Coffee Roasters now.

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Coffee ReviewsTom20 March 2025New Ground CoffeeWashed, Colombian coffee, South WestComment

How We Review Coffee?

We receive coffees from roasters throughout the UK to taste and review. All of our coffee reviews are our own words and thoughts, we don’t receive any form of payment for any of our reviews.

Our coffee reviews always start with an introduction to each independent coffee roaster.

At Batch, we are all about celebrating the incredibly talented roasters that we have in the UK and telling their stories. Each one roasting the coffee slightly different.

We then explore the origin of the coffee and take a look at where the coffee has been grown and the process that it has gone through once it has been picked.

Every coffee growing origin has a different set of characteristics when it comes to the final cup, whether it’s fruity and floral or chocolatey and full the origin of speciality coffee is always celebrated.

The last part of our coffee review is what we tasted in the coffee. Speciality coffee has some incredible flavour notes (more than wine), some dark and rich while others on the opposite end of the flavour spectrum are light and fruity, we try and explain what we taste in the coffee however like with many complex tasting foods or drinks it is also down to perception and personal opinion.

So if we have tasted orange zest and you get watermelon then that is brilliant and what we think speciality coffee is all about (as long as you like the coffee).

We then score the coffee on attributes like body, aroma, sweetness and flavour. Some of the coffees you may then find in our coffee club voted the best coffee subscription in the UK by the Independent.

How To Make The Best Coffee At Home?

There are many ways to extract the best flavour out of coffee. Take a look at our coffee guides for some tips on how to make your coffee the best it can be.

Where’s The Best Coffee Grown?

Coffee is grown all over the World however, speciality coffee is only within 20 degrees of the equator. It makes specialist coffee rarer than commodity-grade coffee with the added fact that it gets better the higher it is grown.

There are many great coffee growing regions in the world, in Asia, there is Indonesia and India that produce lots of great coffee.

Africa, the birthplace of coffee has numerous coffee-growing countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda are known for excellent coffee.

South America has quality as well as quantity produced, some amazing coffees come out of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Central America also has some world-class coffee growing regions, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua grace many cupping tables.

There are also many other countries that produce excellent coffee.

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