Roasted TuesdayEmber House Espresso
Brazil and Colombia, washed, roasted medium dark. Dark chocolate and toasted hazelnut in the cup.
$14
Roasted this week, dated on the bag
Ember Hill roasts single origin coffees and blends in small batches twice a week, stamps the roast date on every bag and posts within two days. Buy a bag, prepay a run of deliveries or ask about wholesale for your cafe or office.
Tue and Thuour roast days
48 hoursfrom drum to post
12 kgour largest batch
- Roast date on every bag
- Posted within 48 hours
- Whole bean or ground to order
- Wholesale for cafes and offices
On the shelf this week
Bags are 250 g unless the card says otherwise, roasted on the date stamped on the side. Choose whole bean or the grind that suits your brewer.
Roasted Tuesday
Single originEthiopia, washed
Light roast from smallholder lots in the southern highlands. Bergamot, peach and black tea.
$16
Colombia, natural
Medium roast, dried in the cherry. Red berries, cocoa and a long sweet finish.
$15
Decaf Colombia
Decaffeinated in Colombia with a sugar cane process, then roasted medium. Caramel and baked apple.
$15
Good first orderTasting flight
Four 100 g bags, the espresso and three single origins, all roasted on the same day.
$24
Prepaid run
Pay once for 3 bags at $42, 6 at $81 or 12 at $156, and a 250 g bag leaves after each roast day.
from $42
Espresso, 1 kg
The house espresso in a resealable kilo bag, for heavy home use or a small office machine.
$46
Wholesale, 5 kg sacks
Any coffee on the shelf in 5 kg sacks for cafes and offices, priced by volume and term.
Price on enquiry
EnquireTasting notes describe flavour, not ingredients: nothing is added to our beans, and the roastery handles coffee only. Postage is worked out at checkout for your address, and codes from the roast day letter take money off.
Roast days, and when each coffee tastes best
Fresh beans need a few days to rest before they open up, then slowly fade. Count from the roast date stamped on the bag.
| Coffee | Roasted | Best from | Best within | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ember House Espresso | Tuesday | Day 7 | 6 weeks | Wednesday |
| Ethiopia, washed | Thursday | Day 4 | 5 weeks | Friday |
| Colombia, natural | Tuesday | Day 5 | 5 weeks | Wednesday |
| Decaf Colombia | Thursday | Day 5 | 5 weeks | Friday |
| Tasting flight | Tuesday | Day 5 | 4 weeks | Wednesday |
Keep beans in the resealed bag, away from light and heat. Ground coffee fades faster, so we grind on the morning a bag is posted, never in advance.
How dark we take each coffee
Roast level shapes the cup more than anything else we control. These are the beans as they come off the cooling tray.
GreenHow every coffee arrives: pale, hard and grassy
LightEthiopia: bright, floral, close to tea
MediumColombia and decaf: rounder and sweeter
Medium darkHouse espresso: chocolate and a heavier body
Bought by the lot, stamped by the batch
We buy green coffee through importers who share each lot's country, region, altitude and process, and we print those details on the bag. We claim no partnerships, certifications or prices paid to growers that we cannot show you on paper.
Each batch is roasted to a profile logged by date and batch number, cooled in four minutes and rested overnight before packing. The date stamped on the bag is the day that batch left the drum.
- Country, region and process on every bag
- Batch number and roast date stamped by hand
- No claims we cannot document
Wholesale for cafes, restaurants and offices
Supplied in 1 kg bags or 5 kg sacks and roasted to order each week. Prices depend on volume and are agreed in writing.
Cafe supply
A house espresso and a rotating filter coffee delivered weekly, with help dialling in on the first morning.
from$28 a kg
Office coffee
Whole bean or ground for filter machines and cafetières, delivered every two weeks to the office kitchen.
from$32 a kg
Barista sessions
Two hours at the roastery on dialling in, milk texture and cleaning, for teams of up to four.
per session$180
Inside the arch
Green sacks in, cupping bowls on Monday, the drum on Tuesday and a cafe that pours what we roast.
From people who brew it (example reviews)
The bag said roasted Thursday and arrived Saturday. The Ethiopia tasted flat on day two and wonderful by the following Wednesday, exactly as the table promised.
A prepaid run of six bags meant one less thing to remember. The decaf is the first one the whole house drinks after dinner without complaint.
They came to the cafe on the first morning and stayed until the espresso was right. The 5 kg sacks arrive every Wednesday with the roast date on each.
Asked at the roastery door
Why a roast date and not a best before date?
Because the roast date tells you more. Beans past their window are not spoiled; they simply taste less lively. The table above gives our suggested window for each coffee, counted from the stamped date.
Which grind suits my brewer?
Whole bean if you own a grinder, since it keeps longest. Otherwise choose the grind for your brewer: espresso for a machine, filter for drip and pour over, cafetière for a coarse grind. We grind on the morning of posting.
Do the tasting notes mean something was added?
No. Hazelnut, berries or caramel describe how a coffee tastes; nothing is added, and no nuts, milk or flavourings are handled in the roastery. Allergen rules differ by country, so ask us if you have a specific concern.
How is the decaf decaffeinated?
In Colombia, before export, with a process that uses a solvent made from sugar cane. Decaf still holds a small amount of caffeine. If you need to avoid caffeine for a health reason, ask your doctor rather than relying on any coffee label.
How do prepaid runs work?
Choose a coffee and a run of 3, 6 or 12 bags, pay once at checkout, and a bag leaves on the post after each roast day in your run. To pause or move a bag, call or email before the roast day.
Can you post abroad?
Within the country, always. Rules on sending food across borders differ by country, so we check the rules for an address abroad before we take the order.
Wholesale and office enquiries
Tell us what you pour and how much you get through in a week. Inside two working days, a sample bag offer comes back to you, along with a price per kilo and the day our van reaches your area.
- Roasted to order each week
- Help dialling in on the first morning
- Terms agreed in writing, paid directly to us
Come to the arch
Collect on roast days, or come on Saturday morning to smell what came out of the drum that week.
Phone and email
A roastery in a converted railway arch; collect from the roastery door on roast days
Roastery hours
| Tuesday and Thursday | Roasting 7:00 to 15:00, collection until 17:00 |
| Wednesday and Friday | Packing and posting |
| Saturday | Roastery door open 9:00 to 13:00 |
The roast day letter
A short note after each roast day: what went in the drum, how it is tasting and a code for the shop. Ask in any message to be added.