Coaltown Coffee - Black Gold No3 Blend.
Black Gold is hand-roasted to just beyond first crack to give it a rich espresso zing while still retaining the natural flavours gained at origin. Its rich chocolate and biscuit base make it very drinkable. It’s a post-blended coffee, currently made up of Fazenda de Mata, Finca Serbia and Roberto Ortiz.
Black Gold is the coffee that started everything for Coaltown Coffee, their first blend. This seasonal espresso was created to be an approachable crowd-pleaser, and it soon became the foundation of everything they do at their Roastery in Ammanford.
Coaltown serve Black Gold daily at their Espresso Bar alongside their other sensational coffee offerings. It’s favoured by many and part of people’s daily routines, and in 2014 it won two gold stars in the UK Great Taste Awards.
Taste notes: Nutty milk chocolate, biscuit
Bag size: 200g
Grind: Paper / filter
Regions: Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica
We think that Coaltown Coffee would perfectly accompany our Kinto pour-through coffee range - find the pour through brewer here, filter papers here and the server jug here.
About the supplier
Coaltown's ethos is to create delicious coffee and do good along with it.
In 2019, Coaltown became one of the first b-Corp certified coffee companies in the UK, which means they are morally and legally committed to prioritising responsibility to the environment and society, from the experts who produce their coffee at the roastery to the baristas who brew it.
Coaltown prefer to deconstruct traditional supply chains and develop direct trade value chains. They are able to forge strong relationships with producers across the globe. This helps develop transparency to ensure that every party involved can provide value and share equity.
Coaltown coffee is roasted daily in their roastery based in the Welsh town of Ammanford, using a Probat GG75 Roaster and a 12kg Probat Roaster.
Roasting coffee requires a careful and methodical approach; monitoring time, temperature, smell and colour change. They aim to develop the natural make-up of each coffee to help create the best possible cup.
Coaltown use compostable coffee bags made by Biotre and exclusively use compostable coffee cups in all sites, made by a fellow B corp: Decent packaging. All waste coffee chaff & grounds get donated to local gardening groups for composting. The Roastery is run on 100% renewable energy working with opus energy – the first UK energy supplier pledging to be carbon negative in the next 10 years.
