Better coffee, built on long-term commitment
Blossom is a speciality coffee roastery founded in Manchester in 2020.
We believe that the best coffee is built on long-term commitment. By returning to the same producers each harvest, growing our purchasing as our business grows and openly reporting what we pay, we aim to build relationships that create greater security and confidence for producers and better, more meaningful coffee for our customers.
Manchester, since 2020
Blossom was founded in Manchester with an ambition to build a roastery that could become synonymous with our city’s growing coffee culture.
When we started, many of Manchester’s best cafés and restaurants were serving coffee roasted elsewhere. We wanted to change that, so Manchester could have a modern roastery of its own that could stand alongside the coffee companies we most admired around the world.
Mutually beneficial sourcing
Rather than building our sourcing programme around price or trends, we work with one supply chain in each origin and return to it every harvest.
We prioritise meaningful volumes of producers’ main harvest coffees and as we grow, we aim to deepen our existing relationships rather than continually adding new suppliers. Over time, this gives producers greater security, confidence in future demand and, we hope, the financial capacity to invest in their own businesses, while giving us deeper access to their coffees and greater consistency from season to season.
Our approach to roasting
We roast in Manchester on our Loring S35, with the aim of presenting the clearest expression of each coffee’s natural characteristics.
The quality of our coffee is only as good as the raw materials that we source, and therefore as roasters, we see our role simply as unlocking the potential of the coffee and showcasing the work of the producers with whom we work in the most thoughtful and considered way possible.
