We buy decaffeinated beans processed using the natural 'Swiss Water' or CO2, sometimes called 'Sparkling Water' method. The quality of the beans we choose means that although lacking in 'buzz', the character in the cup is hard to differentiate from regular coffee.
NOTE: No decaffeinated coffee is 100% caffeine-free, there is always a tiny trace of caffeine in the finished product.
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As low as £13.00This Small Batch Series from Swiss Water is also one of our regular coffees from our friends at Daterra. The right atmospheric conditions on the farm mean that Summer Solstice can be made purely from dried-on-tree cherries. This rare process allows for a bright, clean complex flavour, which coupled with Daterra’s exclusive technology for sorting produces a world class coffee, scoring higher than most, non-decaffeinated coffees! Chocolate, lemon, almond, apple, grape, strawberry, tropical fruit, honey sweetness and full body are amongst the tasting notes from SCAA independent cuppers, who scored this 83.75.
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As low as £13.00El Eden is a blend from 16 entrepreneurial farmers in the Armenia, Quindío region of Colombia. Scored a whopping 83.25 by the independent coffee graders of the SCA (Specialty Coffee Association), which is higher than most non-decaffeinated speciality Colombian coffees! The only thing you’re not losing is sleep! The graders commented on the aromatic and flavour notes, which included red fruits, fig, chocolate, caramel and peach. Picking from their mainly Castillo, Catimor and Caturra varietal planted fields, the coffee is typically wet processed the same day as picking and dried on either ‘Casa Elba’ patios, or drying beds on rails or with a roof that is on rails to protect from weather.
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As low as £13.00This delicious coffee was scored an impressive 82.75 by the independent coffee graders of the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America), higher than most non-decaffeinated speciality coffees! The only thing you’re not losing is sleep! Flavour and aromatic notes of chocolate, plum, cream and blackcurrant. Rebuild Women’s Hope is a cooperative established in 2013 on the banks of Lake Kivu. The varietals used are Blue Mountain and Kent, grown at altitudes up to 2000 metres.
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As low as £13.00Coffees grown at Finca La Esperanza are naturally processed at the nearby Vivagua mill. The lot chosen for this Swiss Water Decaffeinated Small Batch Series offering is a naturally processed Red Bourbon. This coffee was scored a whopping 84 with flavour and aromatic notes listed as strawberry, floral, cherry and chocolate. Since 2012, the farm has been progressively updated, redesigned, and reimagined as a separated varietal garden, including red and orange bourbon coffees, Pacamara, Kenya, Bernardina, Mokka, and of course Pacas varieties. With environmental and social credentials to match its quality, the only thing you're not losing with this coffee is sleep!
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As low as £13.00This delicious coffee is grown on heirloom varietals that yield milk chocolate with great supporting notes of lime, orange, and caramel. The citrus character from Sidamo really adds another dimension to the cup. The coffee was scored 82.75 by the independent coffee graders of the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) higher than most non-decaffeinated speciality coffees! The only thing you’re not losing is sleep! This coffee is washed, with beans removed from the cherry through a de-pulper, before passing through a fermentation phase for 12-36 hours. Once this is finished the cherries are washed in clean water and then dried on traditional raised beds or occasionally patios. Local smallholders grow heirloom varietals known locally by names such as Kumie, Diga, and Wilsho.
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As low as £8.00This naturally decaffeinated Christmas coffee with a subtle level of natural flavouring allows those cutting down on caffeine to get in on the Christmas coffee habit! The rich, mellow taste and character of the coffee are perfect.
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As low as £12.00If you give this coffee to someone without telling them it's decaffeinated you will always be greeted with the same look of astonishment when they find out! Firstly because we apply the same criteria for excellence to the coffee we choose to decaffeinate as we do to all of our Grand Cru coffees. Expect flavours of dark chocolate, raisin, plum, liquorice, malt, black cherry and tobacco. Secondly, the method of decaffeination is designed to remove only the caffeine and not the precious flavour compounds that give coffee its character. The Mountain Water Process involves immersing the coffee beans in water to extract the 99.9% of the caffeine. No chemicals are used, and a filtering process allows the beans to maintain their characteristic flavour. The Mountain Water Decaf process uses clear, pure water from the glaciers of the Pico de Orizaba Mountains in Mexico, although often the coffee we choose is not in itself Mexican. This dark roast makes a phenomenally good espresso or base for a latt� and cappuccino.
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As low as £11.00If you give this coffee to someone without telling them it's decaffeinated-coffee you will always be greeted with the same look of astonishment when they find out! Firstly because we apply the same criteria for excellence to the coffee we choose to decaffeinate as we do to all of our Grand Cru coffees. Expect flavours of chocolate, biscuit, peach, apricots, lemon, butter, vanilla, mandarin, citrus, red apple, pear and caramel. Secondly, the method of decaffeination is designed to remove only the caffeine and not the precious flavour compounds that give coffee its character. The natural Mountain Water Process method uses clear, pure water from the glaciers of the Pico de Orizaba Mountain to float the coffee oils and caffeine in a solution.
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As low as £25.00The anaerobic natural process lends the cup a developed complex fruitiness, creamy body with complex, intricate flavours and less bitterness than other coffee. This has come through in the cup as orange and lime, complex chocolate and caramel. Using the oxygen free fermentation style, though more time consuming, offers farmers almost complete control compared to the normal fermentation process, which offers a less consistent outcome. Scored a whopping 84.25 by the independent coffee graders of the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) higher than most non-decaffeinated speciality coffees! The only thing you’re not losing is sleep! This coffee comes not only from the revered coffee-growing nation of Panama, but from one of the most unique coffee projects within that country, if not the world. Creativa Coffee District in Chiriqui is a coffee mill, but it’s also a cultural project.
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This new Sumatran coffee was scored a whopping 83 by the independent coffee graders of the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America), higher than most non-decaffeinated speciality coffees! With notes and aromatics of chocolate, pineapple, brown sugar, lemongrass and berry, the only thing you’re not losing is sleep! The concept was created to fund protection of the forests in Sumatra where this coffee is grown. 70% of the smallholder households there are women producers. Rahmah, Chairwoman of KOPEPI talked to this nature of maintaining flavour profile “As you may be aware, coffee from our region is never consistent due to many factors such as altitude, variety, microclimate, harvest time, etc. So, we need to have many farms to make it consistent."
