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Spotlight On: Brazil Signature Espresso

Our Brazil Signature Espresso is our most popular coffee. As well as being available online to purchase and subscribe, it is served by dozens of ou...

WILD GROWN AND ORGANIC COFFEE

This blog explores what actually the terms 'wild grown' and 'organic' mean, and how you can help make conscious purchasing decisions.

Reducing Waste from Coffee Consumption | Food Waste Action Week 2023

This 6th-12th March is Food Waste Action Week. Over the years we’ve been shown lots of different ways to reduce waste from coffee consumption, and ...

International Women's Day 2023 | Interview with Ana Luiza Pellicer of Fazenda Mió

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the positive impact women have in our team and in the wider coffee community. Read our interview...

Geeking out with Best Befores and Batch Traceability for Food Waste Action Week

Best before, use by, roast date, too fresh, stale, mouldy, is that something growing on it..?! There are so many terms to describe shelf life and f...

Valentine's Day Gift Guide for Coffee Lovers

We think one of the best things about coffee is taking a moment to share it with someone you love, whether that's at home with breakfast before wor...

Our Roastery Shop and Refill Station

That’s right, we are now able to offer refills of five of our most popular coffees, priced by weight. This is an important step for us on our journ...

End of Year Roundup 2022

2022 was a big year for Chimney Fire. While it came with challenges, driven by the current climate, we also reached new milestones - B Corp certif...

Chimney Fire is Moving Home

If you’ve been keeping track of our social media accounts in recent weeks, you will have noticed we’ve been dropping some rather large hints about ...

Why Our Costs Have Increased

Our costs as a company have increased a lot over the past few months, with COVID, geopolitics, and the war in Ukraine having a big impact on the gl...

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WE ARE NOW B CORP CERTIFIED!

Chimney Fire Coffee is ecstatic to announce that we are now B Corp certified! As we celebrate our 5th birthday month, this is the best birthday pre...

Escaping the Daily Grind: Spoon Carving at Joy Farms

Joy Farm, owned and operated by Adrian and Sarah Joy, is located just down the hill from us in East Horsley. At the top of their farm lies their cr...

A Note From Our Head Roaster, Elizabeth Furth

Roasting delicious coffees has been a passion of mine for more than 10 years. Taking green coffee seeds from different coffee growing regions on th...

NEW ROLE - DIGITAL CONTENT INTERN

We're looking for a Digital Content Intern to join the team at our coffee roastery in the Surrey Hills. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone ...

Recycle and Reuse for National Compost Week

Championed by Chartered Horticulturalist and TV personality David Domoney, March 14th-20th 2022 is National Compost Week. At Chimney Fire Coffee we...

Half caff Coffee: What’s the Deal?

Our industry, like so many others, is bursting at the seams with buzzwords and fads. One of the latest additions to the lexicon is ‘half caff coffe...

END OF YEAR REVIEW 2021

Thank you to all of our suppliers, customers and partners for working with and supporting us throughout 2021. Here are a few of our highlights, imp...

Should I Put Sugar in My Coffee?

One can be forgiven for wanting to drop a spoonful of sugar into a classic Italian coffee. The strength and bitterness of a dark espresso roast can...

Wild Swimming: The Best Christmas Party Ever

Here at Chimney Fire Coffee, we’re pretty pumped to spend our days roasting great coffee with the beautiful Surrey Hills as our backdrop. With all ...

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Christmas Last Orders and Opening Times

Thank you so much to all our customers for making 2021 a year to remember! We are all looking forward to a little break over the Christmas period, ...

Why Varietals are Important with Head Roaster Elizabeth Furth

During his visit to El Salvador in early 2019, Chimney Fire Coffee founder Dan was introduced to Tomas Trigueros, proprietor of the Don Tomas Estat...

Recycle Reuse Reward

Over the last two years we’ve been rigorously researching and testing packaging alternatives - and in the summer of 2021, we were incredibly excite...

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THE FARMER IN OUR COURTYARD: ESNAYDER CUARTAS INTERVIEW

How many British roasteries are lucky enough to say they receive regular visits from an actual coffee farmer? We sat down with Colombian coffee pro...

COFFEE AND ELITE SPORT - WHEN SAM MET TISH

Tish Jones is a Team GB marathon runner with a personal best of 2hrs 31mins, set at the 2019 Virgin London Marathon. She is supported by Adidas and...

GENDER EQUALITY IN COFFEE FARMING

On average it takes around 100 beans to make an espresso - that’s about 50 cherry picks to make one cup of coffee! But who picked the cherries? W...

ONE YEAR OF RE-CYCLE

We're proud to say we've been working with Re-Cycle for just over a year now, with 25p from every 250g bag and £1 from every 1kg bag of all Discov...

TRACEABILITY AND OUR AUGUST DISCOVERY COFFEE

When you buy coffee from a speciality roaster you should know where it comes from. This is so important because it creates a link between the coff...

COURTYARD COFFEE FESTIVAL

CHIMNEY FIRE IS TURNING 4 🥳To celebrate we’re having a party, and everyone is invited! Join us at our roastery in the beautiful Surrey Hills on S...

CLASSIC OR SIGNATURE - OUR SINGLE ORIGIN HOUSE ESPRESSOS

The development of our two house espressos have been at the core of everything we do here at Chimney Fire. After lots of customer feedback and num...

Plant A Tree On Earth Day

Thanks to everyone who planted a tree for Earth Day. A TREE FOR EVERY ORDER ON EARTH DAY Thursday 22nd April is Earth Day. For every order recei...

Spotlight On: Brazil Signature Espresso

WILD GROWN AND ORGANIC COFFEE

Reducing Waste from Coffee Consumption | Food Waste Action Week 2023

International Women's Day 2023 | Interview with Ana Luiza Pellicer of Fazenda Mió

Geeking out with Best Befores and Batch Traceability for Food Waste Action Week

Valentine's Day Gift Guide for Coffee Lovers

Our Roastery Shop and Refill Station

End of Year Roundup 2022

Chimney Fire is Moving Home

Why Our Costs Have Increased

WE ARE NOW B CORP CERTIFIED!

Escaping the Daily Grind: Spoon Carving at Joy Farms

A Note From Our Head Roaster, Elizabeth Furth

NEW ROLE - DIGITAL CONTENT INTERN

Recycle and Reuse for National Compost Week

Half caff Coffee: What’s the Deal?

END OF YEAR REVIEW 2021

Should I Put Sugar in My Coffee?

Wild Swimming: The Best Christmas Party Ever

Christmas Last Orders and Opening Times

Why Varietals are Important with Head Roaster Elizabeth Furth

Recycle Reuse Reward

THE FARMER IN OUR COURTYARD: ESNAYDER CUARTAS INTERVIEW

COFFEE AND ELITE SPORT - WHEN SAM MET TISH

GENDER EQUALITY IN COFFEE FARMING

ONE YEAR OF RE-CYCLE

TRACEABILITY AND OUR AUGUST DISCOVERY COFFEE

COURTYARD COFFEE FESTIVAL

CLASSIC OR SIGNATURE - OUR SINGLE ORIGIN HOUSE ESPRESSOS

Plant A Tree On Earth Day

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