Crude Coffee Roasters

Crude Coffee Roasters has been roasting speciality coffee near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, since 2015. The business was started by childhood friends Ben and Richard, whose backgrounds as a former chef and recording engineer, alongside product development and business management experience, shaped the company.

It began under the name Frank and Earnest, roasting in a small garden shed, before moving through a former brewery building and a small warehouse and, by 2022, into its current home in Fornham St Genevieve, where it now roasts on a 70kg Loring Smart Roaster. Coffees on offer include a Ugandan Bukonzo Dream sourced from farmers working with the organisation Agri Evolve, a Brazil House Espresso, and single origins from Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia and a Mexico Mountain Water decaf.

Crude Coffee Roasters offers coffee subscriptions and wholesale partnerships with equipment and training support.