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On a road trip up to Northumbria in January we happened to stumble across Pilgrims coffee on Holy Island. Having been very close to just settling for a greasy spoon on the Saturday morning I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a sign for ‘Coffee roastery this way”.

A wonderful space that has the roastery nestled at the bottom of the garden in a shipping container. The charming cafe was a great place to sit and sip through the days batch brew.

Obviously I couldn’t leave without buying a bag of their coffee. The single-origin that they are roasting at the moment is Kamwangi from Kenya, a favourite origin of mine.

The initial smell of the coffee had the expected fruitiness of a Kenyan coffee. On grinding the coffee, however, the fragrance of the strawberry quality streets hit me ( I’m not sure if it was because I ate a disgusting amount of these over Christmas, but the strawberry chocolate aroma was definitely there).

The coffee is bright and acidic, again very typical of the origin, the first few sips possess wonderful citric notes that usually come through as the coffee has cooled. The sweetness balances out the acidity that evolves into a green apple taste that sits around for a while giving the coffee the depth that some African’s sometimes lack.

Once cooled another level to the coffee appears, ginger and aromatic spices present themselves.

A beautifully complex coffee that was consumed much quicker than a normal bag.

It worked really well as a pour-over. I didn’t experiment with anything other than V60 and Aeropress with this one, but it does have the depth to produce a tasty espresso.

Coffee ReviewsTom4 February 2020Kenyan coffee, SL28, SL34Comment

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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