Coffee Knoydart

I started roasting coffee, a few years ago by hand on the stove for my own personal use. By using a simple frying pan and throwing in some green coffee beans i was soon hooked on roasting my own coffee and had the vision that I’d never had to buy shop coffee any more and maybe one day I would be able to sell my own beans. Although that never happened of course 🤔but the vision was still there 😬 and

so I continued to roast coffee in a pan. I even tried a pop corn maker (dont try it, its messy )
At that time I lived in Yorkshire, had a busy job, worked long hours etc etc. But then my husband and I decided to have a change of lifestyle. We made a trip to Knoydart on the West Highlands of Scotland in July 2019 and we fell in love with it. I returned home handed my notice in at work, we put our house up for sale and I returned to Knoydart a month later for a total lifestyle change and haven’t looked back. We now live in Doune on Knoydart which is about as remote as you can get, live off grid and wake up every morning to the most beautiful scenery we could have ever imagined and go to bed looking at the best sunsets we have ever seen in the world. We are very lucky. But anyway back to the coffee 😊
Coffee Knoydart is the next stage in my lifestyle change. I was still hand roasting on the stove but wanted something better. I didn’t want to buy a fully programmed Chinese machine as these just don't give you the ability to feel what the roast is doing. After months of research and talking to a lot of people we found a company based in Cornwall who built there own roasting machines by hand. Unfortunately because its hand built we had to wait nearly a year for it. But the Cormorant Roaster was worth waiting for and is an amazing machine. It gives me the ability to batch roast but lets me have all the control. Everything is done by sight, sound and smell. The only way coffee should be roasted. My vision for Coffee Knoydart is to be able to produce small batches of artisan coffee to sell the local community and visitors to knoydart and to be able to mail out what we produce. I only want to use compostable, biodegradable packaging wherever I can and will work hard to try and achieve this. Most of all I just want people to keep enjoying the coffee I roast. Thanks for visiting my page. Louise xx