We pride ourselves here at Casa about supplying freshly roasted coffee, but can coffee be too fresh? And the answer is yes! It may sound a little contradictory, but drinking too-fresh coffee can be less than tasty. This is where degassing coffee, or resting, comes in. When we roast coffee, we are applying heat to […]
Bag chat, In 2022 we made the decision to use paper packaging for our 250g and 500g bags, a decision we made to aid tackling sustainability issues in our sector. Sadly, the packaging seemed on paper (pardon the pun) the right direction but the unfortunately came with drawbacks, main and most important to us not […]
So let’s talk prices, yes that time has unfortunately arrived for us here at Casa too, something all businesses are having to face and something we have been trying to put off for some time. One of our aims is to make specialty coffee as accessible to the consumer as possible, one big part of […]
The time has come! We have always strived to make Speciality coffee more accessible to everyone and there has always been an area we knew we wanted to get involved in, the coffee capsule market. Pod machines, nearly every household has one since Nespresso® and George Clooney made them all the rage and what’s […]
We’re delighted to announce that our Charlestown Espresso Blend has been awarded again a coveted 1 Star in the Great Taste Awards 2023! This is the 6th time that Charlestown, has received the accolade, after winning it in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and this year. The judges when describing the coffee said: “Lovely beans […]
Due to the continued rise in costs, we are having to increase the order value for Free Shipping to £24. But despite this increase, we are still very confident that our coffees are great value for money, and that despite most of the specialty roasters having to increase the prices of their espresso blends in […]
Mahlkonig have established themselves to be considered as first choice espresso grinders for any specialty coffee shop baristas looking for the perfect companion in their shop and with the E65s GBW and E80s GBW recently being added to the line up, we’ve managed to get our hands on the E65s GBW model here in our […]
Open House With all the Royal Mail strikes, and Black Friday causing big delays to all deliveries, we are wanting to help our local customers. On Monday 19th until Thursday 22nd December, between 10 & 4pm, we will have a Roastery Open House. You can come to the roastery and buy your last minute Christmas […]
Taste Awards 2022 We are over the moon to have been shortlisted in TWO categories for this year’s Taste Awards which are run by Deliciouslyorkshire, the Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and the Humber. Best Hot Beverage with our Decaf Colombia Popayan Reserve Sugarcane Process Best Wholesaler Big shout out for our team for all […]
It has almost been a month since we have introduced our new packaging, and we thought to write a little blog post about Frequently Asked Questions: Why have you changed? For years we were unhappy on how our old packaging wasn’t eco-friendly. The mono plastic bags were fine as you can recycle them with soft […]