Behind the Scenes at Weanie Beans

Although I live just barely south of the river, travelling as much as North London always seems like a little bit of an objective. However, the prospect of morning meal and coffee at Weanie Beans‘ Harringay roastery was even more than enough to tempt me ‘up north’, also on a frigid Saturday early morning. Jess, that blogs regarding food as well as coffee at Consuming East, is now the operations supervisor for Weanie Beans as well as extremely kindly invited a few blog owners to find to the roastery, discover more regarding the company and also, of training course, beverage great deals of coffee. I also obtained the opportunity to overtake the charming Jamie as well as Sara of the excellent Bean There at blog and to fulfill their newest staff member.

Weanie Beans began life as a coffee cart, run by owner Adeline, who is currently usually found at Treasure, her coffee shop on the Buckinghamshire– Bedfordshire boundaries. You could likewise consume alcohol Weanie Beans’ coffee at a variety of various other cafés as well as restaurants, in London and also beyond. I hadn’t had the coffee previously, however, as well as was really waiting to trying it.

The roastery itself is concealed in a little commercial estate as well as occupies a small-ish however cosy as well as carefully embellished area. I especially suched as the stands out of blue-green and pink in the design (Weanie Beans’ trademark colours and also, by happy coincidence, my two much-loved colours), the coffee-sack-upholstered office chair as well as the world map defining the different places where they have actually sourced coffee to this day. Add this to Toper roaster as well as the shelves loaded with bags of coffee beans, and also you essentially have my desire workplace.

I initially tried a piccolo with Weanie Beans’mix, Precursor. I was fascinated by the name, as well as Adeline described that, after their Citizen Kane mix, she intended to showcase a female personality, looking for inspiration from Harper Lee’s To Eliminate a Mockingbird. The coffee tasted great as a piccolo and also I’ve also been appreciating it in your home, both brewed via my Aeropress as well as my espresso device (my latte art in the blue Acme cup below isn’t really approximately scrape in the situation of the last; I’ll leave it to your imagination whether I was going for a ‘B’, a bow or half a butterfly). I tend to stick to single beginnings when I’m making filter coffee, but Scout was created to be taken pleasure in as an espresso-based drink or a filter coffee, as well as it tasted pretty great with my Aeropress.

Later, Jess brewed us a sample of some Ethiopian Guji coffee with the V60 on the amazing home-made copper brew bar, as well as this was actually outstanding: a subtle, fruity as well as really drinkable mixture. Des was certainly impressed.