No.13

“No 13 Coffee Roasters began with a marriage of over twenty years and a common desire to roast amazing coffee and share it with others. We actually agreed on something”

My roots with coffee started very early having been virtually weaned on the stuff since a baby, that’s the price you pay for having Italian blood. My husband’s introduction to good tasting coffee was his extensive travels across the world including Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand his sisters live there

We understood the power coffee possessed, not just the wonderful taste but also the social aspect of bringing people together to actually have conversations; I know it’s not such a strange concept

Tim and I realised it was not that easy to buy coffee that was actually freshly roasted and did not have an expiry date of a year plus

We purchased a One-kilo roaster and set about sourcing small batches of green beans, with our passion to learn we started to make friends with small artisan roasters who shared our views that something had to change. We visited some coffee growing regions to really learn the ethos of how and where coffee was grown and the intricate process it goes through before being cupped and sent all over the world for us to be lucky enough to buy it

We spent quite a few years roasting, sampling meeting a whole host of people in the coffee trade until we felt the time was right for us to set up No 13. 

We purchased a Five-kilo roaster, picked up our specialty sourced green beans and were ready to start.

Our main priority was to be environmentally friendly, our packaging to look totally different and to roast the best tasting cup of coffee you could drink.

 We would love you to try our coffee and who knows one day we might be able to meet when we are out in the horsebox

Did you know?

Irish coffee was actually invented to warm up cold American plane passengers leaving from Ireland.

The word “Cappuccino refers to the colour of the capuchin monks habits.

Before coffee became widely available, the popular breakfast drink was beer.

Dark roasts have less caffeine than light roasted coffee.

Smallholder farmers produce 80% of the world’s coffee.

There are two types of coffee Robusta and Arabica.

Robusta beans have twice as much caffeine as the more common Arabica beans.

Over 2.25 billion cups of coffee are drunk in the world every day

Coffee dates back to 800 A.D… Legend says that a 9th Century Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi noticed that when his goats ate the bright red berries, they would become euphoric and energised which led to him trying them himself… The rest is history.