THE STORY SO FAR

HAPPYMAKING BEST COFFEE BEANS

HOST coffee is a micro, coffee roasting company based in Chichester, West Sussex, run by me, Becca. As a coffee and single-ingredient enthusiast, I wholeheartedly want to create a brand built on sustainably sourced coffee beans with an emphasis on great taste but never compromising on humanness in the process.  I roast green coffee beans at the HOST HUT in 10kg batches on a beautiful Diedrich 12kg roaster weighing in at 500+kg,  which I affectionately call B - sometimes that stands for Beauty and sometimes it doesn’t. Just saying.

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Joyous

It has been a wonderful experience to get to know the local businesses and cafes serving and stocking HOST and many have become friends. I deliver coffee to local trade partners in re-useable buckets which get picked up empty + switched for ones full of beans. All our retail bags are recyclable.

It has been great getting to know the ethical importers, tasting samples, ordering 70kg sacks and lugging them comically into position at the roastery. I love what I do - it gives me a real buzz to be part of so many people’s mornings. I feel super lucky to live + work on the South Coast, the sea is just a mile down the road so deliveries are often followed by a visit to the beach for a walk or a swim.

In 2022 a dream realised was to visit Colombia. It was extraordinary to wake up to a view of coffee plants, interspersed with enormous banana leaf green foliage and see tiny iridescent hummingbirds flit from flower to flower to the soundtrack of a faraway waterfall. We were shown the different varietals such as pink bourbon and geisha, walked the near vertical inclines and popped the cherry fruit to reveal the slime-covered coffee seeds with a fruity fresh taste like a diminutive lychee. We cupped oodles of coffees, rode around the dirt roads clinging to the bars of an open-top jeep and met the small producing farmers who work the land to make this wonderful product that we all love to sip to get our days off to a good start.

Generous

HOST coffee is sustainably sourced through a partnership of importers, who have visited the farms, walked + talked with the farmers + worked to ensure better working conditions + a fair price for the green coffee which I buy. 

Most of us only spend a short, but very important time with our coffee each morning but these guys dedicate their lives to the coffee bean. The ideal microclimate, altitude, soil and surrounding vegetation are not easy to farm for the varieties of specialty coffee we love to drink. 

I don’t believe great-tasting coffee should compromise the well-being of people + I feel it’s important these farmers + the beautiful lands they work are treated with respect.

There is a way to feel even better about your everyday cup of coffee.  When you buy coffee, HOST donate 1% of sales to charity water + already thousands of litres of clean water are making a difference to hundreds of families. You are doing something nice for someone you don’t know while treating yourself too. There is no added cost to you lovely folk, all you have to do is buy the coffee.

And of course, if you are part of our local PO19 community and need coffee for fundraising events please get in touch at hello@hostcoffeeroaster.com

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