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Welcome

The coffee has been finalised for this month, and once again we have three great omni-roast coffees for you.

What can you say about the London Coffee Festival? For coffee lovers or those in the business it is simply one of the most exciting times of the year.

Where else can you catch up with some of the roasters that have sent their wonderful coffee out to our subscribers, cup coffees from some of the biggest names in the game, rub shoulders with the coffee-glitterati and win a notebook from Square Mile whilst standing next to James Hoffman (who is remarkably tall, btw).

Dear all,

Hope you’re well and enjoying this month’s subscription. We wanted to keep you updated with all the latest news from Dog and Hat, including some important additions to our subscription package options.

Welcome to the first in our series of articles aimed at getting you closer to the roasters that craft the coffee we ship to you each month. Meet Ste. Ste is the founder of Django Coffee Co. and roaster of the fascinating Chinese Fuyan coffee found in the February subscription. When did you first start roasting coffee?...

We’ve selected the coffee for February, and we think it’s got the most variety of any month we’ve put together so far… and it should certainly lead to some healthy conversation throughout the month :-)

To start with, we’ve finally managed to get Long and Short (a new roaster from East London) into the subscriptions with their Honey-processed Costa Rica ‘Don Chico’.  We were hoping to include them before Christmas with their amazing Panama (not a Geisha) coffee, but it just didn't work out - so we are very excited to get such a great all-rounder in this time around.

Hello

Firstly we hope you all had a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

New Roasters

We currently have over 15 rosters on roster and between our 2x and 3x boxes plus the extra bags, we tend to cycle through those pretty quickly. Over the Christmas break we’ve been contacting a host of new roasters and gathering samples… so keep a close eye on the website, as we plan to rotate new roasters in as often as we can!

November's subscription included two 40g bags of unidentified coffee for our subscribers to taste test – One bag was speciality coffee from an independent roaster and the other was a commodity coffee from a well-known worldwide brand.

We’ve just got back from an excellent day at the Manchester Coffee Festival… it was great to see so many enthusiastic and knowledgeable coffee lovers there!

This week Dog and Hat was lucky enough to meet with Ricardo from Finca La Lomita, a coffee farm in Colombia that supplies Direct Trade coffee to Vagabond Coffee Roasters in London...

Today we ventured down the cobbled streets of Hove to meet with Carola, head roaster at Pharmacie Coffee Roasters in their amazing converted mechanics garage.....