Don Santa - Kenya

£8.00

This year Don Santa has brought us this wonderful coffee from the Thangathi wet mill in Nyeri, Kenya - and with tasting notes of cranberry, cinnamon and blackberry, it's nigh on ideal for the festive season!

Thangathi is one of five wet-mills that belong to the New Gikaru Farmers Cooperative Society. The cooperative is made up 1,350 members, each with an average of 200 trees. 90% of the coffee grown by the members is either SL34 or SL28, with around 7% Ruiri 11, and the rest Batian - the latter sharing its name with the highest peak of Mount Kenya, on whose slopes it grows.

The coffee cherry is handpicked when ripe, then delivered to the wet-mill the same day to ensure no uncontrolled fermentation occurs. At the mill it is sorted again, depulped and washed using river water. The coffee is then sun-dried on raised beds until optimal humidity is reached. It is then transported to the Kofinaf dry mill for hulling and bagging in preparation for export.

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Penny Rock - Seasonal Espresso

£6.00

Penny Rock is our signature Great Taste Award winning espresso blend. Named in homage to a beauty spot on the shores of Grasmere, our spiritual home, we select the component coffees from seasonal crop to deliver a balanced and full-bodied espresso that can be enjoyed both with and without milk. The coffee is well-developed during the roast to accentuate body and sweetness, but is tempered to allow the origins room to shine through and express themselves in the cup. The current blend has notes of chocolate, toffee and raspberry and is made up of the following coffees:

FAZENDA DATERRA - BRAZIL

UNION CANTINIL - GUATEMALA

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The Struggle - India

£6.50

We met Lloyd and Ben at Push Cartel in Ambleside at the beginning of 2016. Like most road cyclists they are fuelled predominantly by caffeine and they were looking for some deluxe beans to supplement their high-end bikes. After trying a few of our more subtle origins on them we soon realised that they were looking for maximum impact - for a coffee that whacks you in the chops, that gives you that extra kick, whether it's to get your bike up The Struggle, or just to get up in the morning!

Our current offering is this wonderful Selection 9 varietal from the Melkodige Estate in Karnataka, India. In the cup it has great body with notes of milk-chocolate, muscovado sugar and green apple. 

The story of Melkodige Estate started in 1945 when Alex Leo Rodrigues migrated to this beautiful area in search of better prospects. After working as a supervisor at the British run Balur Estate for a couple of years, he managed to buy a 20-acre estate in 1947. In the seventies, his son A.S. Rodrigues, armed with a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, started implementing a more scientific process of cultivation. He also expanded the estate into a 250-acre plantation. Today, his grandson Aveen Rodrigues and grand daughter-in-law Yogitha, both with MSc Horticulture degrees from the prestigious University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, scientifically manage the plantation.

All of the coffee at the Melkodige Estate is grown under a three-tier shade system. Once fully mature the cherries are hand-picked and visually sorted to remove any unripe cherries. The ripe cherries are then pulped and fully washed before being moved to raised trays to drive out surface moisture. They are then spread thinly over patio bricks and sun dried for around seven days until the desired moisture level of 11% is reached.

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Mountain Rescue - Guatemala

£6.50

The Lake District Search & Mountain Rescue Association (LDSAMRA) provide a vital service here in the Lake District, helping injured and stricken hikers to safety from some of the most remote and precarious places in the country. The vast majority of incidents are safely resolved but there are inevitably a number of fatalities, and without the help of LDSAMRA this number would be much higher.

In order to carry out their work LDSAMRA rely on a team of brave and highly trained volunteers. We are friends with a number of them so are well aware of the great work that they do and the importance of donations to provide them with the kit necessary to do their job effectively.

With this in mind, we donate £1 per kilo of Mountain Rescue sold to LDSAMRA.

Our current Mountain Rescue coffee comes from a collective of smallholder farmers  based around Union Cantinil in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala and forms part of our Guatemala Extracted! project. Our importing partners Olam have a small team based in this community who buy coffee from the smallholder farmers and separate it into lots based on quality. This particular lot is of exceptional quality. In the cup it is clean and incredibly well balanced with notes of toffee and raspberry.

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Yulzan - Guatemala

£7.00

As part of our Guatemala Extracted! project, we are delighted bring you this wonderful washed coffee from Huehuetenango sourced through Guatemalan specialist importers Primavera.

Pedro Ramirez inherited the land on which Finca Yulzan now stands in 1989. He started with a small plot which over the years has grown into the 2.8 hectare farm that he has today. The farm is the main source of income for Pedro and his family. This has historically been very challenging with the cost of farm materials being very high, and the value of coffee generally very low.

Primavera was set up by Nadine Rasch who grew up in Guatemala and whose family have had a coffee farm there for four generations. After studying finance in London, Nadine ended up working for a commodities fund where she saw the price for commodity coffee drop sharply. She came to realise that the only way to maintain stable prices for coffee was through quality. After working for one year with speciality coffee importers Mercanta, she moved back to Guatemala to gain experience of how things worked on the ground.

Most of Guatemala's highest quality coffees come from the Huehuetenango region. This is a very remote area of Guatemala, and the farmers' traditional route to market has been through local coyotes who mix all the coffee they collect together a pay the 'market' price. This model leaves no incentive for famers to practice methods that result in higher quality coffee, such as selective picking and better post-harvest processing. It is Nadine and Primavera's mission to change this. They want to educate farmers to produce better coffee that gives them access to the speciality coffee market, higher prices for their product and a more stable future.

Pedro Ramirez is one of a number of beneficiaries of Nadine's work. He is now positive about the future of coffee and wants to work with younger generations to pass on his knowledge, and to learn and innovate together. Pedro works on many aspects of his farm, from the management of pests and diseases without the use of pesticides and herbicides, to having good shade and root fertilization systems. In the future he hopes to invest in a wet mill, and to continue improving his processes and practices to keep up with the high standards of quality in the specialty market.

His commitment and hard work is certainly shining through in the cup. On a cupping table full of exceptional coffees, this one stood out for its intensity of flavour with notes of toffee, pear and muscovado sugar coming through in the cup. 

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Jalapa - Guatemala

£6.50

As part of our Guatemala Extracted! project, we are delighted bring you this wonderful washed coffee from Jalapa sourced through Guatemalan specialist importers Primavera.

The indigenous farmers of Santa Maria Xalapan have for a long time excelled in  growing the likes of corn, tomatoes, apples, peaches and avocados. Their prowess found the attention of a Spanish organisation who encouraged them to form an organised community with the aim of supporting each other and finding better markets for their products. Given the richness of the pumis soil and the high altitudes, they were also encouraged to add coffee to the roster.

The project has been a great success resulting in some excellent quality coffee. With the help of Primavera the 46 farmers formed a formal association in February 2017. Once picked, the coffee is transported to the Rasch family's farm at Finca El Hato in Fraijanes for for processing. There it is fully washed, fermented and sun-dried - but the association hope to have their own wet mill next year.

With its low acidity, smooth body and notes of milk-chocolate, cream and toffee-apple it is incredibly warming and satisfying in the cup - perfect for the cold months ahead!

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Seasonal Decaf - Guatemala

£7.00

This is the decaffeinated version of the Jalapa from Guatemala, part of our Guatemala Extracted! project.

SPARKLING WATER DECAFFEINATION PROCESS

The sparkling water decaffeination procedure is a gentle, natural and organically certified process which involves the following steps:

The green beans enter a ‘pre-treatment’ vessel where they are cleaned and moistened with water before being brought into contact with pressurised liquid carbon dioxide. When the green coffee beans absorb the water, they expand and the pores are opened resulting in the caffeine molecules becoming mobile.

The beans are then brought into contact with the pressurised liquid carbon dioxide which combines with the water to essentially form sparkling water. The carbon dioxide circulates through the beans and acts like a magnet, drawing out the mobile caffeine molecules.

The sparkling water then enters an evaporator which precipitates the caffeine rich carbon dioxide out of the water. The now caffeine free water is pumped back into the vessel for a new cycle.

This cycle is repeated until the required residual caffeine level is reached. Once this has happened, the circulation of carbon dioxide is stopped and the green beans are discharged into a drier.

The good caffeine selectivity of the carbon dioxide guarantees high retention of other coffee components which contribute to taste and aroma.

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Letterbox Subscription

£8.00

PRICE INCLUDES POSTAGE & PACKING

Our Letterbox Subscription coffee bags and envelopes are designed to fit through your letterbox (in case you hadn't already guessed). All you need to do is to choose how frequently you would like the coffee delivered. We will then send you a variety of coffees over the duration of the subscription period. If you would like to pause or stop the subscription at any time then you just need to contact us. It's as easy as that!

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Monthly Subscription

£8.00

PRICE INCLUDES POSTAGE & PACKING

Our monthly subscription is the best way to explore the diverse world of coffee without having to lift a finger. Each month we select one of our single-origin coffees that we are particularly enjoying. We roast it fresh for our subscribers the first week of each month and post it to you that week. You just need to choose how much you need to see you through to the next instalment!

We try to make the selection as diverse and interesting as possible in terms of origin, process and flavour profile, in order to showcase the huge variety of the humble coffee bean.

If you want to amend or cancel your subscription at any time you just need to email us at info@redbankcoffee.com and we'll sort it right away.

Please note that your first instalment will be delivered the first week of the month following the month in which you setup your subscription - so you may want to buy a bag of something else just to tide you over! You will be charged when setting up the subscription, and then on the 1st of every month thereafter, excluding the month following the month that you set up the subscription (for example, if you setup your subscription of 15th January, you will be charged on 15th January for the first month, but your next charge won't be until 1st March, and then on the 1st of every month thereafter). Complicated stuff, but it works!

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3 Month Gift Subscription

£30.00

PRICE INCLUDES POSTAGE & PACKING

Give someone a taste of damn fine coffee with a Red Bank 3 Month Gift Subscription. Just let us know how much coffee you would like them to receive each month. We'll do the rest by posting a variety of our coffees over the course of the 3 month subscription period.

If you would like the lucky recipient to receive the first instalment before a particular date, or if you would like to leave a short note with the order please let us know in the 'Note' field at checkout.

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