With cafes closed and people working from home and self isolating, picking up a flat white from your favourite coffee shop has become a no-no. However, Indy Coffee Box is delivering speciality-grade coffee (the good stuff that only baristas usually get their hands on) direct to peoples' doors.

The monthly coffee subscription service works like this: the Indy Coffee team (who also publish the Indy Coffee Guides to the best cafes and roasteries in the UK) source top-notch beans from independent and small coffee roasteries across the UK. Each month they curate a hand-picked collection of 2,3, or 4-coffee bag boxes which are sent in the post in a bright yellow box to their subscribers.

The coffee is freshly roasted for the boxes and arrives just 5 days after being roasted, so it's at optimum freshness, which means flavour. Some supermarket coffee might have been sitting in the bag for months going stale. Coffee is delivered as beans for grinding at home (again for optimum freshness and flavour).

Why is this subscription important to the future of our coffee economy? As coffee shops and cafes across the country close, small-scale roasteries are experiencing a colossal slump in demand. Indy Coffee Box is working with these roasteries, finding another route to consumers for them and helping them stay in business.

The ultimate cheer-up
Coffee lovers can sign up now to get a monthly subscription service, a one-off box or send a gift box to a fellow coffee fan (who doesn't need a little cheering up right now?). It's going to be very useful when sourcing birthday presents in the coming months too.

Being able to enjoy barista style coffee at home is becoming a small joy in our shifting daily routine and each box also includes a copy of coffee journal Brew which features tasting notes on the coffees, information on the independent roasteries and extra reading material.

Jo Rees of Indy Coffee Box said: 'We launched Indy Coffee Box last summer and it's steadily grown, thanks to switched-on coffee lovers who enjoy getting really good coffee delivered to their door each month. Now, the demand is really flourishing as people look to find a new normal. If they can't feed their coffee habit in the usual way, at least they can make good coffee at home.'

The Indy Coffee Box website (https://indycoffeebox.co.uk/) also features the Indy Cafe Cookbook which enables cafe lovers to recreate a slice of cafe culture at home, thanks to recipes from 40 of the UK's best indie cafes.

Sustainability

Unlike other coffee subscription services, Indy Coffee Box doesn't re-bag beans to ensures freshness and cut waste.

How to order

Subscriptions start at just £18.99 per month and a one-off gift box is £20. Subscribers can get £5 off their first 3 or 4 bag box with code: ICB1

Order for the April box are live now. Order by April 14 for delivery April 21. Roasteries featured in the April box will be Quantum Coffee Roasters (Cardiff), New Ground Coffee (Oxford), Rounton Coffee Roasters (North Yorkshire) and Fire & Flow Coffee Roasters (Cotswolds).

The Indy Cafe Cookbook is £20 and can be bought here.

www.indycoffeebox.co.uk
@IndyCoffeeBoxUK

NOTES ON INDY COFFEE BOX:

Indy Coffee Box is produced by Salt: www.saltmedia.co.uk

For more information email: jor@saltmedia.co.uk

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