Create Your Own Unique Coffee Blend

Pumphrey’s Coffee understands that coffee is a ritual to our customers. Everyone’s tastes in coffee differ and we love nothing more than letting our customers get excited over their coffee.

Creating your own coffee blend can be a very exciting and rewarding process. Not only does it let you find your perfect blend of coffee, it also gives an immense sense of satisfaction – from bean to cup.

The reasons for blending

These can be very different from roaster to roaster. The commercial aim of a unique blend may be to produce a coffee which is consistent and also better than the sum of available parts. This of course will have many problems for large roasters with budgets to meet when certain coffees are not available. High quality restaurants and coffee houses may also like to create a unique coffee blend which cannot be repeated elsewhere. Pumphrey’s encourage this and are pleased to actively help when sourcing, planning and creating your own unique coffee blend.

Please contact us to find out how we can help you with creating your coffee blend. We have already produced over twenty bespoke coffee blends for our most discerning customers. Although this can all be done very easily at our training rooms at Blaydon, we also work with many customers throughout the country. Many home coffee drinkers, of course, like to try look for the perfectly proportioned single origin bean. This could take a long time, and because our tastes are all different, may never happen.

The joy of blending

Because Pumphrey’s carry a full range of the best available coffee beans in the world, the joy of blending is available to our domestic customers as well. Many of our customers both at Grainger Arcade, Newcastle and our Factory shop and showroom at Blaydon experiment with coffee blends on a regular basis. Some very general rules are:-

• Kenyan Arabicas will have a high acidity and produce a ‘bite’ to the cup.
• Brazilian Arabicas will add nutty flavours.
• Central American Arabicas will add traditional flavours and smoothness.
• Indonesian Arabicas will add body and feel to the cup.
• Robusta’s will add a caffeine hit
• Espresso blends normally attain a better ‘crema’ with a dry processed coffee base. Add different coffees to attain different flavours.