The excellent coffee comes from the Brûlerie de Belleville, a top-notch local roaster.
Lindsey Bolger, head coffee buyer for Keurig Green Mountain, a roaster in the United States, said the industry was "on pins and needles" about whether the Castillo would work.
"It's a different world," says Joel Pollock, Stumptown's head roaster and one of the judges in Viçosa.As a result, the coffee trade has bifurcated in the past decade into commodity coffee, sold in large quantities at a low price, and specialty coffee, where quality rules.
The partners then purchased a used roaster from Holland, and Baldwin and Bowker experimented with Alfred Peet's roasting techniques to create their own blends and flavours.
As concentrate is fed into the roaster, it is heated by a stream of hot air to about 590 °C (1,100 °F).
The roaster is a refractory-lined, upright cylindrical steel shell with a grate bottom through which air is blown in sufficient volume to keep fine, solid feed particles in suspension and give excellent gas-solid contact.
£18.59, tel: 01539 488 100, www.lakeland.co.uk 2. Henrietta Green Founder, foodlovers britain.com Tefal twin-handled roaster I grill or roast most of my food at a high temperature – I like that charry finish to my vegetables – yet, after four years, this pan has never buckled in heat and because it's non-stick, it's the easiest thing to wash.
Thanks largely to him, Lavazza is now the world's sixth-biggest coffee roaster, with very nearly half the Italian coffee market, 2,000 employees and total sales last year in more than 90 countries around the world worth more than £1bn.
I get my coffee from Coleman Coffee (colemancoffee.com): the person who runs it is actually the son of the people who run Monmouth Coffee, but he makes his own beautiful blends in an old 1950s roaster.
There's a French bistro run by a former Apple employee, a handmade-shoe atelier, an organic coffee roaster, long-haired guys in "no nukes" T-shirts and a bunch of techie types opting out of the rat race.
