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Bloom&
Burr

01 · The barGround floor

Board-formed concrete, brass and a two-group machine.

The old press floor. Espresso and flat whites all day, under the original steel trusses.

02 · The roastery5 kg drum

Roasted behind glass, every Tuesday.

Every cup we pour is less than a week from the drum. Green beans rest on the pallets in 60 kg sacks.

03 · The libraryQuiet room

Old print catalogues and two worn leather chairs.

The old paper store, lit by its tall factory window.

04 · The slow barV60 · 15 g

Pull up a stool. Here is how we brew.

One V60, from a sealed pouch to your cup, in three steps.

74 Redchurch Street · London E2

Bloom&
Burr

Opening the doors
An instant photo of the concrete coffee bar under brass pendant lamps
The old print works
A small pile of medium-roast Gayo coffee beans
Gayo, this week
A curled Bloom & Burr till receipt
Table 12, 11:45
An instant photo of the drum roaster with beans in the cooling tray
Roast day, Tuesday
An espresso with thick crema on a white saucer
Pulled short
A kraft Bloom & Burr loyalty card with six red stamps
Tenth cup is on us
Three red and cream sugar sachets, one torn open
The sugar packets
Antique wooden letterpress blocks spelling B & B
We used to print things

About · Est. 2019 · Chance Street, E2

A 1974 print works in East London, roasting three Indonesian coffees every Tuesday.

No syrups, no shortcuts. Coffee for people who’d rather grab and go sit a while

This week's roast · Tuesday 20 October

Pick your beans.

Three Indonesian single origins in 200 g pouches, or all three in a tasting set. Whole bean, or ground to order for your brewer.

A cherry-red Gayo pouch hanging from a cotton string in a green glow over a dark glossy floor The Gayo pouch standing on the glossy floor in the same glow, a heap of roasted beans beside it 01

Gayo Wine

£14.50 / 200 g
  • Dark cherry
  • Cacao nib
  • Red wine

Aceh · Sumatra · Natural anaerobic · 1,500 masl

Medium
A coffee-leaf green Kintamani pouch hanging from a cotton string in an amber glow over a dark glossy floor The Kintamani pouch standing on the glossy floor in the same glow, a heap of roasted beans beside it 02

Kintamani

£13.00 / 200 g
  • Orange zest
  • Brown sugar
  • Black tea

Kintamani · Bali · Honey · 1,300 masl

Light-medium
A mustard Toraja pouch hanging from a cotton string in a red glow over a dark glossy floor The Toraja pouch standing on the glossy floor in the same glow, a heap of roasted beans beside it 03

Toraja Sapan

£13.50 / 200 g
  • Dark chocolate
  • Clove
  • Molasses

Toraja · Sulawesi · Wet-hulled · 1,600 masl

Medium-dark
The red Gayo, green Kintamani and mustard Toraja pouches hanging from cotton strings in a warm glow over a dark glossy floor The three pouches standing in a row on the glossy floor, a few roasted beans in front 04

Tasting set

£21.00 / set
  • Gayo
  • Kintamani
  • Toraja

All three origins · 3 × 100 g

Light to dark

From pouch to cup, in three steps

Fifteen grams of Gayo go into the hopper. Flat steel burrs spinning at 1,400 rpm cut every bean to the same size, so the water pulls flavour out of all of them at the same speed.

Dose
15 g, about 110 beans
Setting
Dial at 6, medium-fine
Burr
64 mm flat, hardened steel
Time
About ten seconds

600µm

Grind size, for a V60

The paper is rinsed first, so it tastes of nothing and the glass is warm. Then a bloom, and three slow circles of water, three and a half minutes in all.

  1. 0:00Bloom with 50 g, wait for the bubbles
  2. 0:45Slow circles up to 150 g
  3. 1:30Top up to 250 g
  4. 1:55Drawdown, done by 3:30

0 g

Water in · 0:00

Grown on volcanic slopes above Lake Laut Tawar, picked by hand when the cherries turn deep red, then wet-hulled the Sumatran way. Let it cool a minute; it gets sweeter.

Altitude
1,450 masl
Varietal
Ateng, Tim Tim
Process
Wet-hulled (giling basah)
In the cup
Dark chocolate, cedar, palm sugar

215ml

In the cup, sweet as it cools

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#BloomAndBurr · The people who keep the lights on

Meet the regulars.

Run club on Saturdays, cupping on Tuesdays, the same window seat every morning. Tag us and you might end up on the wall by the bar.

  • A smiling regular in a navy cap and teal T-shirt holding a takeaway cup
  • A laughing barista in a canvas apron holding a flat white out to the cameraAn older regular with a long white beard laughing over a flat whiteRegulars slurping from cupping spoons around a table of cupping bowlsA woman with curly hair smiling with a takeaway coffee in front of green tiles
  • The morning queue along the concrete bar while two baristas work the machineA barista pouring latte art while a friend cheers across the counterJute sacks and boxes stencilled GAYO in the roastery store room
  • A man leaping in front of a whitewashed brick wall with the red Bloom & Burr tote
  • The roaster grinning with a scoop of fresh beans beside the drumA regular hugging a scruffy terrier at a window seat beside a flat white
  • Two friends laughing in leather armchairs in front of a wall of books
  • A barista in a black hoodie leaning on the counter in the bright caféA run club toasting with takeaway cups on a cobbled East London street
A hand holding a single roasted coffee bean against an ember glow

After hours · Open till 23:00 on Fridays

For the slow part of the day.

A cup after dinner, a pot on Sunday, one more before the last chapter. Coffee that is worth sitting with.

Shop beans
A cut-crystal tumbler of black coffee on a glossy floor against a warm amber glow

Merch

The cream Bloom & Burr heavyweight tee, worn, on a mustard studio sweepThe same tee on a wooden hanger against a dark espresso wall in raking window light

The tee

Heavyweight cotton, printed in small runs in Hackney.

Shop merch
Two speckled stoneware cups and a mug, dipped in cherry-red glaze, on a plaster blockOne of the cups filled with black filter coffee beside its saucer

Ceramics

Stoneware mugs thrown in Walthamstow, dipped in our red.

Shop ceramics
A Gayo pouch tipped over in a dark studio, roasted beans pouring onto a glossy floor

New roast · Gayo Wine · Lot 74-G

Straight from the drum, sealed by Wednesday.

Roasted on Tuesday behind the glass, rested a night, packed the next morning. It reaches you while it is still blooming.

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