Padah Lin consists of combined lots grown by Danu and Pa-O hill-tribe smallholder farmers across 16 villages in the remote mountainous area of Ywangan, southern Shan state, Myanmar. It makes a delightful, delicate yet uncomplicated filter brew with good balance of acidity and sweetness. Delicious as a flat white, too.
Artefact Coffee is a UK roastery that roasts on a fluid-bed system, which pushes hot air through the beans rather than tumbling them against a heated drum. Their stated aim is to eliminate defects, get extraction as clean as possible, and back it all up with numbers. The same mindset extends to packaging made from paper and card only, and fully recyclable at home. They also fund reforestation and carbon removal.
