Pink Lane Coffee Roasters

Pink Lane Coffee Roasters is a Newcastle-based coffee business established in 2012.

They source, roast, and deliver speciality coffee across the UK, catering to homes and various businesses such as cafes, restaurants, and offices.

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Committed to ethical and sustainable practices, Pink Lane Coffee ensures fair pricing for their suppliers, including international coffee farmers and local producers like the Marley Cote Walls dairy farm.

They are a Real Living Wage Employer and run their business collectively, giving all managers a stake and voice in its operations.

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The Origin

The Mensur Abahika coffee from Pink Lane Coffee Roasters originates from the Jimma region of Ethiopia.

Mensur Abahika is the husband of Nesru Aba Nura, whose coffee we purchased last year.

He is a key component of the Tokuma Farmer Group, a collective of farmers in Western Ethiopia who have organised to market and export their coffees together and share knowledge with each other that allows them to each improve quality and consistency.

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Jimma was historically known for low quality naturally processed coffees.

In 2009, Technoserve, an international non-profit that seeks to implement business solutions in areas of poverty, began working with co-ops in the area to teach them how to wash their coffees and produce speciality quality coffee.

For the past decade, the area has been known as one of the top quality-producing regions in Ethiopia though it is only recently that speciality minded producers in Jimma have sought to produce top quality naturals.

It is even more recently, with the relaxing of restrictions surrounding who can market and export their coffees directly to importers, that small to medium sized single producers have been able to market their coffees.

What To Expect

Here’s an idea of what to expect from this delicious Ethiopian coffee from Pink Lane.

Team Batch brew method of choice - Pour Over.

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

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Coffee ReviewsTom20 September 2024Groundstate coffee Washed, North East, Ethiopian CoffeeComment

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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