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Lodestar Coffee Roasters
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Roasted on the north side of the river

Coffee that tells you where it came from.

We buy whole lots from producers we can name, roast them in 12kg batches twice a week, and put the altitude, the process and the harvest date on every bag. Nothing sits in a warehouse.

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11 coffees on the bench
2 roast days a week
14 producers we buy from
Beans tumbling in the drum of a coffee roaster

Fresh off the drum

What we're pouring this week

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The standing order

Let us choose, and never run out again.

Every week we put the best lot on the bench into a bag and send it the day it is roasted. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly — pause it, skip a delivery or cancel from your dashboard without emailing anyone.

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Our story

We started because nobody could tell us who grew it.

Lodestar began in 2019 in a railway arch with a second-hand 5kg roaster and one account: a bakery two streets over. We had spent years buying coffee that arrived with a country on the label and nothing else, and we wanted to know more than that.

Now we buy directly from fourteen producers across Kenya, Colombia, Tanzania and Ethiopia, most of them for the fourth or fifth harvest running. We pay above the going rate and we publish what we pay. Everything is roasted to order, which is why the list is short and why it changes.

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Ripe red coffee cherries on the branch

Single origin

One farm, one harvest, one varietal. Where the interesting flavours live.

Dark roasted coffee beans filling the frame

Blends

Built to be repeatable. The ones we drink every morning without thinking.

A ceramic dripper sitting on a brewing scale

Equipment

The short list of kit we actually use on the bar. Nothing decorative.

A gift box holding a hand grinder and loose beans

Gifts

Sampler boxes and open-value cards, with a note printed on a card.

How to brew it

Every bag carries the recipe we used.

We brew each lot on the bar before it goes on sale and write down the dose, the grind and the time that worked. It is printed on the bag and on every product page, so you are starting from something we know tastes right rather than guessing.

If it comes out sour, grind finer. If it comes out thin and drying, grind coarser. Change one thing at a time and you will get there in three brews.

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Before you ask

Questions we get a lot

Still stuck? Email us and a person who actually roasts the coffee will write back, usually the same day.

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We roast on Tuesdays and Fridays and every order goes out the next morning, so a bag typically reaches you two to four days off the roast. The roast date is printed on the back of every bag — not a best-before date, the actual day it came off the drum.

Filter coffee is at its best from about five days after roasting; espresso usually wants seven to ten. It will keep tasting good for a couple of months, but you bought it to drink it.

It means the whole bag came from one farm or one co-operative, in one harvest, and usually one varietal. We publish the producer, the region, the altitude, the process and the harvest month on every single-origin product page.

Our blends are the opposite on purpose: two or three origins chosen so the cup tastes the same in March as it does in September.

No. Choose Filter or Espresso on the product page and we grind it the morning it ships, on the same grinder we used to dial the coffee in.

Ground coffee does stale faster than whole beans, so if you are buying a 1kg bag we would gently push you toward whole bean and a hand grinder.

Yes. Wholesale starts at 5kg a week and includes dialling in your grinder on site and retraining staff whenever you change the lineup. Email us and we will send the price list and a sample box.

The roastery bar is open Saturday mornings, 8am to 2pm, and we cup whatever came off the drum that week at 10am. It is free, you do not need to book, and there is no obligation to buy anything.