Made with a Global Effort
Roasted in Nottingham - UK
Here you can find a selection of specialty grade coffees that have been purchased with dedication and attention to quality, trade style and farming practices
Franco Specialty Coffee was born with the dedication to make specialty coffee more approachable and available to the market.
As the market for more innovative processing methods increases we are experiencing coffee price to increase too, this is due to the higher investments made at farm level as well as the higher cup quality reached thanks to the innovative processing method itself.
That said, there is range of specialty grade coffees processed with more traditional methods that make great cup quality, like the traditional washed, honey and natural processing methods, and, can be very affordable from a retail price point of view.
though the dedication, skills and attention to detail during any processing method is crucial for great cup quality, cleanness and balance in the cup.
More innovative processing methods like the thermal shock, co-fermented, anaerobic fermentation etc can continue to attract specialty coffee drinkers for discovering new coffee flavour as well as maintaining a certain passion for coffee overall, our worry is that sourcing only these coffees can damage the industry to a degree.
At Franco Specialty Coffee , Michelangelo works with coffee importers to identify coffees of all range that are of high quality (Specialty Grade) and can be honestly priced building a coffee list that is delicious, ethically sourced, affordable giving a chance to those who buy coffee from multinational roasters to access better coffee for the same price.
Our goal is to replace expensive commodity paid coffee for affordable ethical specialty coffee in cafes around UK, we are all about the honesty of price as well as the people finance behind every coffee we buy.
Ps: Michelangelo also loves the newer processing methods - and support this style of fermentation that bring new horizon of flavour in the cup - therefore expect some crazy fermentation and unusual origin to come on the menu as well :)
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Franco Protocol
Michelangelo cups coffee samples provided by our green coffee Importer partners that are fresh in season using the SCA cupping protocol - once quality is assessed we look at the farming practices as well as the story of the farmers or commitments of washing stations and their impact - in this way we get to find coffees that are matching our quality standards as well as making buying decisions that supports people who are making a change where possible.
in the meantime we look to identify coffees that perfectly match our criteria and we hope to establish a relationship by buying these very coffees every year so to make an impact with whatever business we can create. as time goes on and our searches finalised we will make sure to update you on these relationships , tho all depends on our green coffee importers relationship with the farmers we will voice our interest to them so we can still source these coffees throughout the year, and, year after year.