We're starting 2024 as we mean to go on with a new True North coffee from the Chilcon Family in Peru. Over the past few years the coffees we've sourced from Peru have been uniformly excellent. We love this example from the San Jose De Lourdes...
Sweet, balanced, and wonderfully drinkable: it's the Costa Rica Volcancito. This is the second year we've bought from Alejo Castro Kahle (you might remember the fruity natural Volcan Azul which we’re going to bring back very soon). Volcancito is an estate blend, which means it's...
The mystical island of Rum has captured the imagination of visitors for many years. Hung out on the horizon with a jagged crown of mountain peaks, it is known in Gaelic as the ‘Isle of the Ridge’ and boasts Scotland's oldest known stone age settlement....
Of all the various legends and symbols associated with speciality coffee, perhaps none is more famous (infamous?) than the Gesha variety, which has continued to captivate drinkers and coffee professionals around the world since it burst onto the scene in 2004. That year, a farm...
by Bethany McDonagh At Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters, we are always on the lookout for ways to be more sustainable and make sure what we do and how we live has a positive impact on our environment. In fact, as a B Corp-certified company, it’s a...
Earlier this month Glen Lyon Coffee’s Jamie travelled to Brazil to visit our biggest direct trade partners the Foresti family and their farm Fazenda do Lobo in Minas Gerais. This is the fourth harvest in a row that we have bought coffee from Lobo and...
This May we were thrilled to support the Scottish speciality coffee scene by running a Glen Lyon stall at the Glasgow Coffee Fest. We have been a few times over the years so thought that this time around we would offer something completely different. Using our...
One of the first things everyone who visits us at Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters sees is all of the lovely wood that features in our front of house area. We love working with the natural look and feel of timber and have used Brodies Timber,...
As close to the jungles of West Africa as it is to the savannahs of the East, Uganda has always seemed a little bit off the beaten track, a little more adventurous than her better known east African neighbours. So when Omwani offered me the...
We have been working with our friends at Wasted Degrees on the perfect brew. Not just the everyday filter brew we put to liven up our mornings but something altogether more intense and potent. This concoction is an 800 litre mix of heavily roasted barley,...
