ARRAN COFFEE

The Barn,
Birchburn, Shiskine,
KA27 8EP
Contact: Quinn Taylor
Tel: 01770 860386

Freshly roasted coffee has an allure of its own, volatile, elusive and richly satisfying. The trick is to catch this character before it fades, which is why the fresher the roast the better the taste and why six month to a year old coffee is not a good buy. And there are other coffee considerations, which Quinn Taylor thinks equally important, such as choosing the right blend of coffee for the Arran water.

While he worked, previously, as a coffee engineer with some large coffee companies before setting up on Arran, the challenge here was to find the right coffee beans which would suit the types of water on Arran. Ranging as they do from hard to highly chlorinated, to get the full coffee flavour he decided it was necessary to use the better tasting arabica beans which do not have the bitterness of cheaper robusta beans.

Brazilian Santos, Costa Rican Arabica and Colombian Suprema are the three single estate coffees which he uses, in various blends, for a range which are named after island locations. Freshly roasted in Lamlash, some are Fairtrade registered which guarantees workers rights and fairer, guaranteed prices so that Third World coffee growing communities can invest in local schools, hospitals etc.

Product Range: A wide range of arabica blends. Also provides espresso coffee equipment and training for setting up a Coffee Bar (See Arran Coffee at The Pantry p. )

Distribution: wholesale On Arran: Island Cheese Co, Duchess Court Shops, Rosaburn Café, Arran Chocolate Factory, Wooley's Bakery, Inspirations, The Gift Shop, Brodick Golf Club, Kingsley Hotel, Duncans Bar, Brodick Bar, Auchrannie Hotel, Glen Cloy Farm House (Brodick), Murchies, The Shore B&B, Arran Provisions (Lamlash), The Pantry, The Grange, The Argentine Hotel (Whiting Bay), Kilmory Tea Room, Kinloch Hotel, Blackwaterfoot Hotel (Blackwaterfoot), Machrie Tea Room, Isle of Arran Distillery, Primrose Stores (Lochranza), Shiskine Golf Club, Old Mill Coffee Shop, Arran Ceramics (Balmichael Visitor Centre), Catacol Bay Hotel, Corrie Golf Club, Pirates Cove (Corrie)

Delivery: Local and National