A Musical Video all about Small Batch Coffee Company, filmed at our locations, starring Small Batch staff and with music by Brighton band Funky Shindig.

All you have to do get your caffeine addled hands on these 90 cups of delicious is post a picture on our facebook of something Small Batch related (a keep cup, some beans, a staff member) in the weirdest, wildest, most interesting or humourous location.

As this might obviously require some travel, the competion will be open throughout the summer and the final judging will be done in September, so get packing and dont forget your Small Batch supplies.

To give you some inspiration we sent some of the staff off around the globe to kick things off…

*3 months free coffee equals a voucher for 90 free coffees from any Small Batch, does not include beans or filter coffees

We’re so grateful to all our customers for their support and to drop4drop for the wonderful work they do.  You can find out more about drop4drop here or follow them on twitter @drop4drop.

Just a quickie tonight as its getting late, but if you are looking for some coffee this christmas then I would look no further  than the Finca Santa Clara Dwarf Bourbon or ‘Bourboncillo’ from Antigua, Guatemala. This is a wonderful delicate chocolate orange of a coffee and goes great with milk. Its awesome as espresso or filter and has been one of the most popular brews on the syphon bar down at myhotel. This is my favourtite coffee of 2011 but it wont be around for long as we have only have about 50kg’s left and theres a whole crop of new Brazil coffees waiting to be roasted in January….

Guatemala Finca Santa Clara Bourboncillo is £6.95 for 335g and is available at Jubilee Street, Wilbury Road, The Roastery or online before Monday. Get Some.

The problem with drinking great coffee is it  quickly becomes impossible to drink high street coffee on a day to day basis. Thankfully there has been an explosion of great coffee shops across the country in the last few years. These two great books make tracking down these purveoyors of good brews a lot easier in both our own fair city and the capital.

Published by Brighton based Vespertine Press the two guides have become essential companions for coffee connosieurs in the South East and are beatifully printed and furnished with great photographs and background information on roasters and coffee in general.

The books are available from Jubilee Street, the Brighton and Hove Guide is £6.99 and the London book £10

The Aeropress was created in 2005 by Alan Adler the Stanford engineering proffesor who invented the Aerobie and has since taken the coffee world by storm.

The beauty of the Aeropress is its simplicity. It is incredibly easy to brew great coffee with, even easier to clean and is great for travelling with. You can use different grind settings and brew times to make espresso or filter style coffees and there are hundreds of different methods for creating your perfect brew. Check out brewmethods.com for some of the most popular or check out our preferred method here

Opening Hours:

Roastery: We will be closing at 3pm on Friday 23rd December and then: Closed December 24th/25th/26th/27th and January 1st/2nd.

Wilbury Road: Closed December 25th/26th then open as usual but opening at 8am until January 3rd.

Myhotel: Closed December 25th/26th then open as usual

Brighton Cart: Closed December 25th/26th/27th then weekend hours until January 3rd

Hove Cart: Closed 24th December-January 3rd

Last day for webshop orders is Monday 19th Decmber to gurantee delivery before Christmas

The last day for placing courier orders will be Tuesday the 20^th of December to ensure delivery before Christmas.

For local deliveries last orders will be 5pm on Wednesday

Wholesale and Webshop will reopen for business on Tuesday Janury 3rd

Merry Christmas!!

Well hundreds of you do every week from our Brighton Station coffee cart.  These are familiar faces to the many commuters who are forced to leave our fair city each morning and seek their fortunes in Crawley, Croydon, London and beyond.  Said faces have been augmented recently, I think you’ll agree, by a fine array of moustaches.  The cart boys have all been growing these facial attachments throughout November for the now uber-popular Movember charity.

Started in 1999 down under to raise money and awareness of men’s health issues including prostate and testicular cancer as well as depression, Movember has become a worldwide phenomenon.  You’ve probably noticed many a moustache (or “Mo” as the Australasians would say) on the streets this past month, with plenty of Small Batch customers getting involved too.

Thanks to the daily donations of the regular customers at Brighton station this month our seedy looking baristas have raised £220 in small change.  I know this because I just had to count it all but it was well worth it.

Following this small success, we will be making Movember company policy for 2012 and rolling it out across all outlets.  Moustaches will be mandatory* regardless of gender or position.

So here’s a big thank you to our Brighton Station customers and their generosity and a salute to all Mo Bros out there spreading the word about men’s health and raising money themselves.

*policy may not be legally enforcable.

Syphon coffee is coming. from Small Batch Coffee on Vimeo.

We’ve been hatching a bit of a plan for a while now which some of you will already know about, but now that work has begun we can officially announce the impending opening of our new shop in myhotel Brighton on Jubilee Street.