About us
We are a specialty coffee roastery located in Co Wicklow, Ireland. We take pride in handcrafting small batches of coffee from the world's best and most sustainable sources.
Specialty Coffee Roastery
As a premium coffee roastery in Ireland we are dedicated to providing customers with a superior coffee experience, from sourcing the beans to the final brewing process.
Q Graders we work with, both here and abroad, grade the
quality of our coffee with a score out of 100. Specialty Coffee must score 80 or above. The majority of our coffees score between +85 and +90 and some in the +90 to +92 range. All our coffee is 100% Arabica.
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.
Sustainable Coffee
McCabes is proud of its Sustainable Coffee Roaster in Ireland status. 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.
Ireland’s First Carbon Negative Coffee Roastery
Every year since 2020, our sustainability consultants
have calculated our carbon footprint. This includes Scope 1,2 and 3 analysis. Our aim is to take action each year to reduce this and to date we have:
- Changed 50% of our fleet to fully electric vehicles.
- Increased our certified organic purchases to 28%. These coffees are typically grown below trees and no carbon rich fertilisers or pesticides are used.
- Changed all our leaf tea packaging to be 100% recyclable and will change all retail and online coffee packaging to recyclable in 2023.
- Launched our reusable drums using no packaging.
- No trips to origin by plane and have developed relationships with our growers via video calls, WhatsApp groups and donations for equipment.
The remaining calculated carbon is offset with tree planting projects both here in Ireland with HomeTree, Jack’s Mill near our roastery and with
Tree-Nation - The worldwide platform
to plant trees. in Tanzania.
We have set firm goals to reduce our carbon footprint with our partners Origin Green who audit the business annually.
Specialty Coffee Roastery
As a premium coffee roastery in Ireland we are dedicated to providing customers with a superior coffee experience, from sourcing the beans to the final brewing process.
Q Graders we work with, both here and abroad, grade the
quality of our coffee with a score out of 100. Specialty Coffee must score 80 or above. The majority of our coffees score between +85 and +90 and some in the +90 to +92 range. All our coffee is 100% Arabica.
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.
Sustainable Coffee
McCabes is proud of its Sustainable Coffee Roaster in Ireland status. 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.
Ireland’s First Carbon Negative Coffee Roastery
Every year since 2020, our sustainability consultants
have calculated our carbon footprint. This includes Scope 1,2 and 3 analysis. Our aim is to take action each year to reduce this and to date we have:
- Changed 50% of our fleet to fully electric vehicles.
- Increased our certified organic purchases to 28%. These coffees are typically grown below trees and no carbon rich fertilisers or pesticides are used.
- Changed all our leaf tea packaging to be 100% recyclable and will change all retail and online coffee packaging to recyclable in 2023.
- Launched our reusable drums using no packaging.
- No trips to origin by plane and have developed relationships with our growers via video calls, WhatsApp groups and donations for equipment.
The remaining calculated carbon is offset with tree planting projects both here in Ireland with HomeTree, Jack’s Mill near our roastery and with
Tree-Nation - The worldwide platform
to plant trees. in Tanzania.
We have set firm goals to reduce our carbon footprint with our partners Origin Green who audit the business annually.
WORKING TOGETHER FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Ireland’s First Carbon Negative Coffee Roastery
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.
- 1. The price paid to the farmer or farmers in a cooperative must be a minimum of 20% more than the Fairtrade price
- 2. Typical daily payment for pickers must at least match the legal minimum daily wage.
- 3. Water, sanitation, and accommodation must be provided on the farms
- 4. Confirmation that no underage workers work on the farms.
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.
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 was 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 and from December 2023 we will supply all our online customers with 100% recyclable packaging for both 250g and 1kg packs. This will also be available for our wholesale customers.
In late 2022, we also launched our reusable coffee drums. These are now available in 6 and 12kg in our most popular coffees.
Our products are delivered in 100% recyclable boxes made from FSC certified cardboard with water-based ink print.
Read more about Sustainable Coffee.
Working Towards Sustainable Native Woodland Conservation in Ireland
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 planted over 7000 trees. Our annual tree planting projects offset more than our carbon footprint and improves 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.
Resposible and Ethical Coffee Roasters
We only purchase Specialty 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 were the main supporter of Project 20/20 in Nepal. This was a poverty reduction program establishing a coffee farm for a community in Pokhara. It aimed to provide a safe living space for women who had suffered domestic abuse.
The project is a two-acre coffee farm which now provides an income for the participants of this programme, alongside 300 local farmers to create sustainable livelihoods.
In 2020 the first coffee cherries were harvested.
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 was 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 and from December 2023 we will supply all our online customers with 100% recyclable packaging for both 250g and 1kg packs. This will also be available for our wholesale customers.
In late 2022, we also launched our reusable coffee drums. These are now available in 6 and 12kg in our most popular coffees.
Our products are delivered in 100% recyclable boxes made from FSC certified cardboard with water-based ink print.
Read more about Sustainable Coffee.
Working Towards Sustainable Native Woodland Conservation in Ireland
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 planted over 7000 trees. Our annual tree planting projects offset more than our carbon footprint and improves 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.
Resposible and Ethical Coffee Roasters
We only purchase Specialty 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 were the main supporter of Project 20/20 in Nepal. This was a poverty reduction program establishing a coffee farm for a community in Pokhara. It aimed to provide a safe living space for women who had suffered domestic abuse.
The project is a two-acre coffee farm which now provides an income for the participants of this programme, alongside 300 local farmers to create sustainable livelihoods.
In 2020 the first coffee cherries were harvested.
Read what our customers say
Customers reviews
Genevieve Whitfield
The perfect cup of coffee
Lovely to see the process behind the passion... from visiting growers as far afield as Costa Rica, meticulous blending, hand roasting and barista training, the team at McCabe’s Coffee leave no stone unturned to ensure we enjoy the perfect cup of coffee.
Danny Miller
Excellent
We started using McCabe's 13 years in our very first Zest Cafe. As time has progressed we have thankfully grown to now operating 5 Zest Cafes as well as our bars and restaurants in Shannon Airport. From the beginning McCabe's have been incredible. From the consistent quality of their coffee to the barista training, support measures and willingness to grow with us, has made this successful journey a joy. Thank you so much Stephen and all the team at McCabe's.
Joe Barrett
Highly recommended
We find that the quality of coffee, service, staff training, and machine maintenance are second to none. I would highly recommend McCabe’s Coffee.
Laragh Strahan
Our customers love the McCabe’s blend
We have been serving McCabe’s coffee for seven years in all of our 5 cafes. We love working with Stephen and our customers love the McCabe’s blend. We are approached dozens of times per month by other coffee suppliers but none will ever beat the quality of taste, service, and dedication to their product as McCabe’s!
John Duggan
A Tradition of Exceptional Taste and Service
We have being using McCabe’s coffee for many years, from day one it has been a pleasure to deal with Stephen. It is clear to see that they are very passionate about coffee and most importantly, our customers always comment on how great the coffee tastes. The service is above and beyond and it is very assuring to know that they are always on the other end of the phone if we need anything.
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