Conscious

We are an independent speciality coffee roasting company.

Our goal is to source and roast coffees that are vibrant, approachable, and consistently delicious, while fostering a more equitable supply chain.

31/05/2026

In celebration of Arsenal’s Premier League win (and the parade happening just around the corner 👀), we’re pouring The Livener today (and Fri-Sun throughout June) — our first seasonal drink debuted at LCF.

Cold brew + blood orange, topped with oat cold foam.

Swing by for one before the crowds do.

19/05/2026

3 months! Thanks so much to everyone who’s come by, to our brilliant baristas, and to the friends who’ve jumped behind the bar when we needed them.

The coffee menu has been growing. The ideas are stacking up. And with summer on the way, we’ve got some fun brews in the works that we can’t wait to start serving.

Thanks also to , and — the bakes have been exceptional and we can’t stop eating them. 🥐

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More soon ✨

09/05/2026

Catch us at this Friday 15 May — we’ll be on the stand (Stand HP22 on the first floor, Hyde Park area!) serving up a couple of cool, refreshing drinks all day long.

We know how long and hot and chatty the festival gets, so we’ve designed two proper thirst quenchers to keep the energy up: a blood orange cold brew and a cherry vanilla espresso on ice, both with plenty of oat milk cold foam. 🍒🍊

We’ll be pouring all day — come grab a drink and say hi, we’d love to see you there 💛

18/04/2026

El Diamante, San José de Lourdes 🇵🇪

This lot brings together coffees from three producers, Quispe, Daniel Nunez and Roger Chilcon, whose farms surround the village of El Diamante in northern Peru. We’ve been purchasing from El Diamante for the past four years, with the coffees selected and consolidated based on shared quality and profile, in collaboration with the producers and our export partners .peru

Washed processing with extended fermentation brings a cup with vibrant acidity, showing notes of forest fruits and blackberry 💥

02/04/2026

We love every one of our customers - just this guy slightly less 💛

30/03/2026

Hey gang - some changes to our opening times at the Cally Rd shop this weekend 🌷

Fri 8:30–4
Sat 8:30-4
Sun & Mon closed

Back to normal Tuesday 7th!

28/03/2026

Spring time shop opening ritual ☀️🌱

14/03/2026

Dialling in code 📝

OK look there are a lot of different approaches out there to dialling in espresso. We’ve read and watched plenty of them, but honestly none of them are perfect - and chasing extraction numbers is a fool’s game.

What’s helped us most (and by “us” I mean Culainn) is keeping some simple prompts in mind and, based on experience, using them to make decisions as each coffee comes together.

So what’s running through my head while dialling in?

If it tastes weak → reduce yield
If it tastes too strong/intense → increase yield
If it’s sour → grind finer
If it’s bitter → grind coarser
If it’s muddy → reduce the dose
If it’s a complex coffee → try a higher-than-usual yield
If there’s more than one issue → change more than one variable

Alongside this, we write down every adjustment — and how the flavour changes — in a notebook (cheers for the idea). It helps us keep moving quickly in the right direction toward the final recipe.

Also in case your wondering - as a starting point we use an 18g dose, 36g yield, brewed in 29s using a WDT and Puqpress on 14.

Hope this is useful for some of you espresso brewers out there — and always keen to hear how others approach it too.

Peace,
Culainn x

24/02/2026

After hours — Friday 6 March

To mark the opening of our coffee shop (and the arrival of our latest coffees from Peru and Bolivia), we’re staying open a little later on Friday 6 March.

We’ll have a selection brewing on filter, pouring small tastes and chatting through the new coffees. We’ll also put a couple on espresso for anyone who’s curious.

It’s a relaxed, drop-in evening — no bookings or structure - (just send us a DM if you’re planning to come so we have a rough idea of numbers).

Swing by whenever suits, try the new coffees and chat with us about what we’ve been working on.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm
Address: 349 Caledonian Road, N1 1DW

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20/02/2026

Jenry’s Gesha is back ✨

This is our fifth year working with Jenry, and our third release of his award-winning washed Gesha - a coffee that means a lot to us.

We first met Jenry in 2021 through the production workshops we’ve run in Cusco, and we’ve since visited him and his family on their farm in Santa Teresa. Watching the care that goes into this lot makes it all the more special to share.

We’re roasting it now — grab a bag online, or swing by the shop to pick one up and try it on filter while it’s on the brew menu!

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Conscious, 349 Caledonian Road
Welwyn Garden City
N11DW

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