Bailies Coffee Roaster
A Roaster We Trust
Founded by Russell Bailie over 20 years ago, Belfast-based Bailies Coffee Roasters have always approached coffee in a holistic way, understanding the importance of investing in every step of a coffee's journey from bean to cup. Bailies dedicates a huge amount of time to travelling coffee regions and has forged long-standing, ethical and equitable relationships with their coffee farmers – the right approach to take for sustainable coffee sourcing.
That long-term, relationship-first approach to sourcing is exactly what we look for in the independent UK roasters we feature in our specialty coffee subscription boxes. Bailies joins a growing list of roasters from across the UK we're proud to showcase through RISE.
Buku Sayisa Natural Microlot
The village of Buku Sayisa is located in the district of Wamena, part of the broader area of Guji, and collects the cherries of the small farmers in the surrounding area. Farmers in this region cultivate the heirloom variety of Dega, so unlike most Ethiopian specialty coffees, this is a single-variety Dega microlot. Microlot coffee refers to a specific and limited quantity of coffee beans that come from a well-defined, small section or plot within a larger coffee farm. This separation allows coffee producers to isolate and highlight a particular set of coffee beans with distinct characteristics, often resulting in exceptional flavour profiles. Microlots are carefully cultivated, processed and harvested with extra attention to detail, aiming to produce high-quality, unique and premium coffee.
We love this special coffee for its unique tasting notes and recommend you give it a try.
Coffees like this are exactly why RISE Coffee Box exists. Every month, we blind taste 25-30 coffees from independent specialty coffee roasters across the UK – from long-established names like Bailies Coffee Roasters to standout roasters we've discovered along the way – and choose only the very best to feature in our coffee subscription boxes. If you love discovering new specialty coffee, sustainably sourced and roasted by people who genuinely care about where it comes from, a RISE coffee subscription is the easiest way to explore it all from home.
