COFFEE ROASTERY.

McCabe’s Coffee is a specialty roastery based in Co.Wicklow, Ireland. We hand-roast coffees from the world’s finest growing areas. We are dedicated to providing customers with a superior coffee experience, from sourcing the beans to the final brewing process.

Our coffee beans are ethically and sustainably sourced, and the roasting techniques bring out each unique flavour and characteristic of each varietal. McCabe’s coffee offers a variety of blends and single-origin coffees, as well as a coffee subscription service for those who want to receive fresh beans regularly

SPECIALTY COFFEE.

Quality is vital to our ethos: quality of product and of service. We roast each day and deliver after resting the coffee, to ensure that the customer receives the freshest flavour and highest quality.

We are committed to outstanding taste, service, and reliability. Our aim is to strengthen our brand of quality and sustainability in Ireland with customers who have a passion for seriously good coffee.

ORDER COFFEE

genuine

We believe that human face is the most important interface and will personalise your contract in order to meet your needs.

experienced

As one of the first micro roasteries in Ireland, we have over 20 years experience of roasting coffee.

craftsmen

We respect the precision and craftsmanship that goes into making the best tasting cup, every time.

…who care

Our job is to work with customers, not against them. We won’t tell you what type of coffee you should like, we’ll roast your coffee the way you like it. If you’re in trouble we’re on the way, any day of the week.

Highly Awarded.

McCabe’s Coffee was voted Best Organic Coffee in Ireland in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, and Best Espresso coffee in Ireland in 2011, 2016 and 2019 at the International Great Taste Awards. In total McCabe’s Coffee has been awarded 15 awards in the last 6 years at this trusted and recognised International competition.

WORKING TOGETHER FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

Ireland’s First Carbon Negative Coffee Roastery. Click here for our 2021 Sustainability Report

The farmers who grow our coffee must receive a fair price. We have built close relationships with these farmers over the years, visiting when we can and contacting them each year to agree a price that is fair.

The price paid to the farmer or farmers in a cooperative must be a minimum of 20% more than the Fairtrade price
Typical daily payment for pickers must at least match the legal minimum daily wage.
Water, sanitation, and accommodation must be provided on the farms
Confirmation that no underage workers work on the farms.

This is Sustainable Trade. ‘Direct trade’ claimed by some roasters is also sustainable but has the added risk of payment up front, large container loads of coffee that need to be stored and little come back if it doesn’t match up to the coffee you cupped prior to buying. Importers add a great service in the coffee supply chain and we are happy to pay them for this.

We also use Fair Trade and Organic Certified Coffee. We believe agreeing a higher price than the Fairtrade price as we do for our sustainably traded coffees is better but some customers prefer the external control provided by Fair Trade policy.

Ireland’s First Carbon Negative Coffee Roastery.

We’ve teamed up with Hometree, an Irish charity whose work is to establish and conserve permanent native woodland in Ireland, encouraging land regeneration and biodiversity through afforestation, restoration and education. Together with our partners Tree Nation planting trees between the Tropics, we now have agreements in place to plant 2,000 trees a year. This will offset more than our carbon footprint and improve bio-diversity in these areas. All of the tree planting projects we’re involved with have firm partnership contracts in place to ensure the trees are managed, protected and allowed to live out their natural lives. We will be audited annually for our sustainability by our partners Origin Green.

You can visit our forest soon in Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare.

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING.

Finding a sustainable solution for our packaging to wholesale customers has been challenging to say the least. From 2019, we collected used packs from all our customers, baled these and paid for them to be sent for specialist recycling into new products such as insulation, decking, plant boxes and garden furniture.

In late 2021, the government announced that soft plastics could be recycled where to date only rigid plastic were accepted. We contacted RePak and Panda Waste and learned that that this only applied to mono soft plastic and not composite soft plastics. Traditionally, coffee packs have had a metalized foil laminated to a plastic outer material making them a soft composite plastic which to date is still not recyclable in Ireland. We spent many months trialling recyclable mono material film with success in terms of product quality and bag durability and invested in a new packing machine with fresh new artwork. We launched these in late 2022. Unfortunately, despite previous successful trials, about 1% of the packs were bursting in transit as the recyclable material is not as strong as the foil composite. We are currently experimenting with a stronger recyclable material and will continue to make all efforts to find a sustainable packaging solution for our wholesale customers.

In late 2022, we also launched our reusable coffee drums and trialled these successfully with one of our wholesale customers. In 2023 we will be trialling these with more customers in 2 coffee types.

Online orders

We use a re-sealable pouch for all online deliveries and can source these in fully recyclable material. Once current stock is finished in summer 2023, we will supply all 1 kg coffee packs purchased online in 100% recyclable packaging.
All our retail 250g packs will also change to 100% recyclable packaging in late 2023.
All our retail 250g tea pouches are made from 100% recyclable packaging.
All our leaf tea bags are made from 100% compostable material.
Our products are delivered in 100% recyclable boxes made from FSC certified cardboard with water-based ink print.

Our Team.

We are coffee enthusiasts who work to live. From a part-time hobby set up in a garage, a small and exciting business developed. We guarantee a great coffee at a great price with great customer service.

Jonathan was the first sales manager at McCabe’s Coffee. A keen espresso drinker of our Pura Vida blend he travels all over the country to ensure our customers have everything they need.

Portia looks after accounts but also helps out with packing, deliveries, customer service, IT and is also the head of the engineering section when machines break down! Portia’s favourite drink is a flat white in our award-winning organic blend. She is the prime motivator in our going green department.

Stephen keeps a close eye on all the goings-on at McCabe’s Coffee. Passion for great tasting, well-presented coffee drives Stephen to continually improve and grow every part of the business. Together with Portia, they try to visit the farmers annually that grow all the coffee they roast. Stephen has a real passion for all aspects of the business and has 11 years coffee roasting and sales experience.

Steven is the Order Manager at McCabe’s Coffee dealing with all the invoicing and order assembly. He has many years in the coffee industry as a barista and managing a number of cafes. A flat white of our single origin Sumatran coffee puts a smile on Steve’s face.

Anton joined the sales team in 2019 and has helped grow the business well in all areas. A big fan of our organic Colombian coffee as a flat white.

Renata joined the sales and customer service team in July 2021 as Senior Business Development Manager. She has over 10 years experience in the coffee industry managing large accounts, judging at coffee events worldwide and is a qualified AST both in barista training and sensory. A filter Ethiopia Yirgacheff brewed with Oragimi dripper is Renata’s cup of choice

Sumba. (Only Joking!!) With just 6 months experience on the job, our latest team member, Sumba has provided great help with green coffee evaluation from origin countries. With outstanding olfactory sense, she can detect the most minor flaws in deliveries from each country we buy from prior to roasting.

RESPONSIBLE AND ETHICAL.

We only purchase top grade 100% Arabica from single estates and small co-operatives in the best growing areas around the world.

We choose to work with farmers who care as much as we do about quality, consistency, and taste. Understanding each other’s needs has helped us produce some amazing award-winning coffees.

Charity.

We are the main supporter of Project 20/20 in Nepal. This is a poverty reduction program establishing a coffee farm for a community in Pokhara. It aims to provide a safe living space for women who have suffered domestic abuse.

The project is a two-acre coffee farm which will provide an income for the participants of this programme, alongside 300 local farmers. It aims to create sustainable livelihoods.
In 2020 the first coffee cherries will be harvested. We update our customers regularly following visits to the Project and we encourage all our customers to join this charity.

MEET OUR GROWERS.

DIEGO ROBELA

We selected Aquiares estate in Turrialba, Costa Rica, for the taste of their delicious coffee, their dedication to the Rainforest Alliance and their community spirit. We visited this beautiful estate in 2016.

Diego Robela manages the estate where pickers own their own houses and a creche, church and shop have been provided. The coffee from this beautiful farm is the main ingredient in our Pura Vida blend.

They have a fascinating varietal garden and a keen interest in experimentation.

PRABHAKAR BASKAR

Prabhakar Baskar and his son Rohan own Pampadampera estate in Kerala, India. We fell in love with this beautiful estate covered in mature trees providing shade for the coffee and natural habitats for bees and birds when we visited in 2017.

The estate surpasses the Rainforest Alliance criteria by having more trees than required. Particular attention was given by Prabhakar and his team this year to improving quality and yield by way of new organic fertilisers, additional plant husbandry and taller plant height.

JOHN KIMONDO

John has been living on the Thiriku estate, Nyeri for 20 years in the foothills of Mount Kenya.

The bright sweetness of this coffee really stood out from other estates we visited.

The rapid expansion of Nairobi had made it difficult to get pickers and farm workers resulting in much higher wages being paid.

We found their dedication to quality and interest in new cross breeds fascinating.

JOSE ABICA

Jose Abica is one of the farmers at Sara Ate cooperative. We visited here in 2019. Members of Sara Ate cooperative come from villages near Takengon, a well-known coffee town in the province of Aceh located at the northern end of Sumatra. The cooperative currently has approximately around 400 small coffee producing members. The coffee is all shade grown below the canopies of trees and is organic as only chicken manure is used with no pesticides or fertilizers. We purchased 10 diesel pulping stations for the farmers in 2020 which has reduced walk time from the plantations.

JUAN VARGAS

Juan Vargos works at Fazenda Klem and keeps in regular contact with us. The coffee at Fazenda Klem is 100% certified organic and meets social, economic and environmental quality standards at international level. Each year they try to improve, as their mission is: “Producing Coffee of Excellence” In addition, they have an excellent combination of polyculture between coffee, avocado and banana that make their crops a natural forest where an entire ecosystem coexists. The coffee crop usually begins in June because their crops are in a high mountain region which allows the coffee to mature slowly concentrating more sugars and an infinite sensation of unique flavours.