Clifton Coffee Roasters | Rocky Mountain | Panama

If you’re into specialty coffee then Clifton is the place to buy Bristol coffee beans.

Clifton Coffee Roasters Review | Batch Coffee UK

Clifton is a coffee roaster located in Bristol, UK.

Clifton Coffee Roasters are one of the seasoned pro’s of the speciality coffee game in the UK. Founded in 2001 they began servicing espresso machines for the retailers of coffee in Bristol. They evolved then into selling wholesale roasted coffee and training people how to make it, they had one of the first ‘barista training’ schemes in the UK.

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In 2013 the business evolved again, now concentrating on mainly sourcing and roasting speciality coffee. This coincided with the coffee boom in the UK and Clifton coffee soon became a well-known name amongst the coffee sceners of Europe.

Their drive to educate themselves about each origin and then share that knowledge with their customers is why Clifton is at the forefront of the speciality coffee scene in the UK.

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The Coffee

Panama is an origin that I always look out for. Having lived there for 3 months in 2018 and visited many coffee farms, I always have a soft spot for Panamanian coffee.

I think that is something that resonates in many products, if you have visited the origin it somehow tastes better.

A wonderful country that offer some wonderful coffee.

The unique terrain of Panama combined with the infrastructure make the coffee farming and processing some of the most advanced in the world. Home of Finca Esmarelda, the Pioneer in Geisha coffee, Panama is one of the most revered coffee growing regions on the map.

The Review

The Rocky Mountain from Clifton does not disappoint. To start with the fragrance was more sweet than fruity as the tasting notes suggest. I had a few crunches of the beans and I tasted treacle and brown sugar.

The brewed coffee, to look at maybe didn’t look as bright as I had imagined but tasted brilliant. The juicy berry notes immediately came through with layers of tropical fruits. As the coffee cooled more berry notes came forward while also holding its depth. It had a great level of acidity that wasn’t too sharp enabling it to work well with milk. Overall a fantastic coffee drinking experience with some exciting flavours.

Worked extremely well as a V60 as expected, but extracted as a fairly short Aeropress was my favourite brew.

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How We Review Coffee?

We receive coffees from roasters throughout the UK to taste and review. All of our coffee reviews are our own words and thoughts, we don’t receive any form of payment for any of our reviews.

Our coffee reviews always start with an introduction to each independent coffee roaster.

At Batch, we are all about celebrating the incredibly talented roasters that we have in the UK and telling their stories. Each one roasting the coffee slightly different.

We then explore the origin of the coffee and take a look at where the coffee has been grown and the process that it has gone through once it has been picked.

Every coffee growing origin has a different set of characteristics when it comes to the final cup, whether it’s fruity and floral or chocolatey and full the origin of speciality coffee is always celebrated.

The last part of our coffee review is what we tasted in the coffee. Speciality coffee has some incredible flavour notes (more than wine), some dark and rich while others on the opposite end of the flavour spectrum are light and fruity, we try and explain what we taste in the coffee however like with many complex tasting foods or drinks it is also down to perception and personal opinion.

So if we have tasted orange zest and you get watermelon then that is brilliant and what we think speciality coffee is all about (as long as you like the coffee).

We then score the coffee on attributes like body, aroma, sweetness and flavour. Some of the coffees you may then find in our coffee club voted the best coffee subscription in the UK by the Independent.

How To Make The Best Coffee At Home?

There are many ways to extract the best flavour out of coffee. Take a look at our coffee guides for some tips on how to make your coffee the best it can be.

Where’s The Best Coffee Grown?

Coffee is grown all over the World however, speciality coffee is only within 20 degrees of the equator. It makes specialist coffee rarer than commodity-grade coffee with the added fact that it gets better the higher it is grown.

There are many great coffee growing regions in the world, in Asia, there is Indonesia and India that produce lots of great coffee.

Africa, the birthplace of coffee has numerous coffee-growing countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda are known for excellent coffee.

South America has quality as well as quantity produced, some amazing coffees come out of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Central America also has some world-class coffee growing regions, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua grace many cupping tables.

There are also many other countries that produce excellent coffee.

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