Moon Roast Coffee
A Roaster We Trust
A family business, run by enthusiastic people such as head roaster Dan and owner Francis, who we've met several times and really love spending time with. The Moon Roast Coffee roastery is set on beautiful sprawling grounds, but is still a small batch coffee roastery based in the heart of rural Hampshire. Inspired by family heritage in the coffee and tea trades spanning four generations, Francis Bradshaw commissioned a Probat coffee roaster in a barn in his backyard back in 2012, roasting at night after work.
Moon Roast began selecting coffee and developing roast profiles, supplying freshly roasted coffee to local people and businesses. Following steady growth, in 2017 grade 2 listed outbuildings were converted into a purpose-built roastery two miles up the road on a working farm, with an additional Probat roaster, barista training facilities, roastery tours and a retail shop. That kind of steady, homegrown growth is exactly what we look for in the independent UK roasters we feature in our specialty coffee subscription boxes.
Moonshot
The base of this coffee is a blend of lots from small producers in the Sul de Minas province of Minas Gerais, the largest coffee-growing region in Brazil. About 30% of the country's coffee is grown here, mostly on small farms of 10 to 100 hectares. Sophisticated growing and harvesting techniques have helped make Brazil the world's largest producer of Arabica. Alongside this, the Ethiopia Adola coffee is produced in the Woreda of Adola, Guji region. The Adola dry mill has 360 raised beds and 385 members of staff during the harvest season. The contributing farmers are all registered and part of the Kerchanshe support network set up by Israel Degfa, which helps smallholders and their families with access to healthcare, education and agricultural support.
This coffee is smooth, intense but "easy going" (in Moon Roast's words), and we couldn't agree more.
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 family-run names like Moon Roast Coffee 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.
