Original Espresso

The Story of Extract Original Espresso

1. 2026
   

   INTRODUCING PAPUA NEW GUINEA

   Cultivated by smallholder farmers in small coffee gardens and sourced in partnership with PNG Coffee Exports Ltd., this exceptional coffee brings rich balance and complexity to our signature house blend.

   High up in the clouds, Papua New Guinea’s prime growing regions, including the Eastern Highlands, Western Highlands, and Simbu Province, offer ideal conditions for world-class Arabica. Growing at altitudes reaching up to 2,200 meters, varieties such as Typica and Bourbon thrive during the peak harvest season from April through September.
3. 2024
   

   NEW SEASON ORIGINAL

   Crafted from our exclusive Brazilian blend for fruity, non-acidic notes, complemented by sweet jammy tones from El Salvador, and finished with a light touch of sparkle from Kenya.
5. 2021
   

   INTRODUCING CAUVERY PEAK COFFEE FARM, INDIA

   In 2021 we introduced an incredible Indian coffee from Cauvery Peak to the Extract Original house blend to join coffees from La Marianela in Colombia and a honey processed coffee from El Ingenio in El Salvador.

   This UTZ-certified farm is run by Ramraj Ramesh and has been in his family for over 70 years. We visited Cauvery Peak in 2019 and saw firsthand the investments Mr Ramesh has made in infrastructure and environmental care for decades you can read more about some of his environmental practices in our grower stories.
7. 2018
   

   Extract Original named Top 5 in UK

   Extract Original is named one of the top 5 coffees in the UK the Lonely Planet Global Coffee Tour.
9. 2017
   

   INTRODUCING Sol Y Cafe, PERU

   In 2017 we gave Original Espresso a shake-up with a new partnership with Sol y Café, an organic cooperative of small-scale growers growing coffee high in the Peruvian mountains. The cooperative provides farmers with the practical support they need to improve coffee quality and crop yield. You can read more of their story here.

   We topped this off with a hit of hazelnut in the form of the Guatemalan El Fogon, these two coffee growers joined our long-standing Original staple, El Ingenio from El Salvador. Together the coffees produced a coffee with a big body of chocolate and subtle fruit notes.
11. 2016
    

    Welcoming El Ingenio

    In 2016 we welcomed a new coffee grower to the Original House blend, a honey-processed El Salvadorian coffee from El Ingenio, a farm on the Urrutia family estate. Shade-grown and organically fertilised, we loved this coffee so much that it's still part of the Original Espresso blend today. Read more about the El Ingenio farm in our coffee grower stories.
13. 2014
    

    INTRODUCING LA MARIANELA, COLOMBIA

    We kept the base of our 2014 coffee as the Yellow Bourbon coffee from Pantano in Brazil, adding a relatively new coffee grower to the blend, the Colombian Marianela. Since 2014 La Marianela has become a long-lasting partnership which you can read more about in our grower stories.
15. 2012
    

    MILESTONE MOMENT: 1 tonne of coffee a week

    Our Original espresso turned out to be a huge success. Thanks to our newly refurbished vintage roaster, Betty, (read her story here) in 2012 we hit a milestone moment of roasting 1000 kilos of coffee each week.
17. 2011
    

    ORIGINAL ESPRESSO IS BORN

    After a few years of experimenting with roasting different coffees, in 2011 we created our first house espresso. A signature coffee which would represent everything we stand for. Ethically sourced. Perfectly crafted. Great with milk and great without. A good coffee to all people.

    So, whilst on a coffee-sourcing trip to Brazil, we found an exclusive lot of the Yellow Bourbon Pantano coffee, a coffee grower we still work with today. Packed full of caramel flavours, this made up the base of the very first version of Original Espresso.