About Our Coffee

About Us

Based in Honiton, Devon, Montgomery’s Coffee has been selling its own brand coffee beans to the trade since 2005. The Business has rapidly earned an excellent reputation for its great tasting coffee. The press and media have shown considerable interest with a feature in the local BBC Spotlight News programme and an article in The publican in June 2009. Montgomery’s was also nominated in 2009 for The Best Beverage Award.

How we do it...

First, select the finest beans

The two main categories of coffee beans are ‘Arabica’ and ‘Robusta’. Only Arabica beans will find their way into the gourmet cup. There are many different Arabica varieties offering a wonderful palette of flavours. They can be used as a single variety or blended to produce wonderful shades of strength, body and flavour. Robusta beans belong at the cheaper end of the taste spectrum being characterised by a bitterness, musty flavour and less body. They are often blended with Arabica beans to‘soften’ the edges – but one taste – and the game is up! South America and Africa are the main coffee producing nations. Each country and each region produces coffees with very different flavour characteristics. The finest tasting coffees that we all aspire to are grown with care and pride by small communities that care passionately about the coffee they produce. The cream of the crop are grown at high altitude and consequently command high prices. High altitude coffees are thought to contain more of the substances that make coffee so complexly flavorful. Montgomery’s coffee is Fairly Traded which means that our producers get a proper price for their coffee to help sustain their communities and improve the way they manage their crops and land. Arabica coffee beans contain lower levels of both caffeine and chlorogenicacids, which are partly responsible for bitterness and astringency in coffee.

Then create the perfect blend

Our quest was to produce a blend of coffee beans that would produce a consistently smooth flavour with a tantalizing aroma – and not a trace of bitterness. The Montgomery’s blend is 100% Arabica with beans selected from Columbia and Ethiopia. It’s the ratio we use that produces the magic – and that is our secret!

Finally, roast very slowly

We medium roast our beans…Medium roasted coffee has less soluble solids, a higher acid content, and a potent aroma when compared to darkly roasted coffee. All of these factors are known to reduce perceived bitterness. Most companies that roast beans in this country ‘flashroast’ them. This is a high volume roasting technique that roasts hundreds of kilos of green coffee within 30-90 seconds. It’s a much cheaper process than slow roasting – and results in inferior coffee. Our coffee beans are roasted very, very slowly and the result is a great flavoured coffee that is not at all bitter. Montgomery’s unique blend guarantees that each deliciously smooth cup is followed by one that is just as perfect.