Welcome to your August coffee bible; preaching this month’s speciality latest and filling your diary with only the coolest caffeinated events
New digs for Cairngorm
Gold star for North Star
Festival feels
Planning on hitting Edinburgh’s Foodies Festival on August 5-7? Buy two bags of single origin beans from Luckie Beans and bag a free Friday day ticket. You’ll be able to grab a coffee from the Luckie Beans guys while you’re there too. Just use code FOODIES at the checkout.
Bank holiday brews
Heading to The Oak Fair in Dorset this August bank holiday weekend? Make sure to sniff out Reads Coffee Roasters who’ll be serving a cracking cup to festival goers seeking a speciality caffeine fix from its little grey coffee cafe.
Exclusive micro-lot
Want something to boast about to your brew brothers? Yorkshire’s Casa Espresso currently has an exclusive Tanzania Mpango Horongo micro-lot available on its website. With pink grapefruit, cherry and nutmeg tasting notes, it’s definitely going to be one to savour.
Grindsmith goes green
Manchester coffee fave Grindsmith has come over all green this month, donating its used coffee grounds to Farm Lab. Farm Lab is a pop up urban farming experiment, looking at the future of food and low carbon living. Instead of using fields to farm in, in this particular project, edible mushrooms are being grown in a converted shipping container. You can get involved in the eco project, either by buying a coffee from the Grindsmiths coffee trike, parked outside – which will provide the growing material for the mushrooms – or by dropping by for a chat about urban farming and seeing if you too can take part at home.