Bean To Cup Coffee Machine Collection

Ideal as a gift or to treat yourself to a selection of our best coffees with a 20% saving over buying them individually. 

Chocolate Fondant Blend Bold, punchy with deep luxurious & toasty chocolate notes, this is one you have to try!

Dark Chocolate & Biscoff Ethiopia Mocha Djimma A deep, bitter-sweet dark chocolatey coffee with a lovely warming spicy finish. 

Dark Chocolate Sumatra Mandheling A rich, dark & bold coffee with a creamy mouthfeel, the beans that started Speciality Coffee! 

A Great Intro to Freshly Roasted Beans For Bean to Cup Machines.

If you have a bean-to-cup coffee machine, whether it's an auto bean-to-cup machine like the De'Longhi Magnifica or Rivelia, or what are often referred to these days as "manual bean to cup machines", such as the Sage Barista Express, for example, you may be wondering which are the best coffee beans for your machine.
 

You're absolutely right to be wondering this, by the way. You wouldn't buy a performance sports car and pump any old economy fuel into it, and what's the point of investing in a coffee machine and using any old beans? 

As someone once said (I'm pretty sure it was me, actually): Insanity is using the same coffee beans over & over again, and expecting better-tasting espresso!

What Makes These Coffee Beans Great for Bean-To-Cup Machines?

Automatic Bean-to-cup coffee machines work slightly differently from traditional espresso machines. Instead of a portafilter (filter holder), they use something called a brewing unit, which is inside the machine and is responsible for producing the espresso.

As a result, the espresso they produce is generally less intense than traditional portafilter espresso machines. 

For those who like detail: auto bean-to-cup espresso is usually around 6-8% TDS, while portafilter espresso would usually be 8-10% or more.

So the beans that we've chosen for our bean-to-cup collection, are beans that are more intense in flavour, without being super-dark roasted.

Another thing most automatic bean-to-cup machines have in common is that you can't usually access the burrs to clean them (there are exceptions, of course, such as the De'Longhi Rivelia), which makes darker, oilier beans potentially a problem for these kinds of machines.

The beans in this collection aren't roasted dark enough, so that the amount of oil released while grinding would cause burrs to clog. 

It's worth pointing out that if you do have a "manual bean to cup" machine (which I don't call a bean to cup machine at all, but many do), these coffees will deliver even richer and more intense espresso. Can you handle it? Only one way to find out! :-).

Please Note:

The bean-to-cup collection used to be a collection of four coffees. We have reduced it to three in order to focus on the three more intense coffees that most people with an auto bean-to-cup machine would get the most enjoyment from. 

This isn't shrinkflation ;-), the price is exactly 20% less than these three coffees bought individually, as was the case with the collection of four.