New Coffees
Out This Week
Four coffees currently roasting at Northern Weather.
VAN for the everyday, FLOWERS for something brighter, PIGEONS for the fruitier end of things, and FUTURE DECAF for drinking coffee without quite so much coffee.
NORTHERN WEATHER
A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
Field Day is becoming Northern Weather.
Same roastery, same bloke, same coffee. A new name and a slightly different outlook.
AFTER 347 MONDAYS, FIELD DAY COFFEE IS CHANGING TO NORTHERN WEATHER COFFEE.
Same bloke roasting coffee. No guiding principle other than to do good work. The Roastery is getting a lick of paint. A few new things are getting installed. New packaging soon, just stuff we’ve being trying to do for yonks.
The main thing remains operational: the coffee.
NORTHERN WEATHER - Top shelf coffee by bottom shelf people.
COFFEE CURRENTLY
Flowers
Roast: Light / Medium
Let the wind be your friend.
Some coffees arrive shouting about strawberries, wine gums and anaerobic fermentation. Flowers has been asked to keep the noise down.
It is clean, sweet and quietly interesting. The sort of coffee that tastes good before you have found the correct adjective for it. Delicate enough to drink black, substantial enough to please the milkman, and remind you that it is still coffee.
No bouquet necessary.
Current coffee selection.
Community Lot. Colombia. Popayan Reserve. Washed process. Mixed Varieties
WASHED PROCESS
CLEAN · COMPOSED
Roasted in Penistone, South Yorkshire.
Nice as Espresso or Filter Coffee.
Notes: A bright seasonal coffee producing a clean and bright cup, with caramel, soft citrus and floral notes
Espresso Guide: Start with 18g in / 36g out / 28 - 32 second extraction.
Filter Guide: 60g coffee to 1 litre of water, just off the boil.
DAYWORK
Medium roast
Sweet, steady espresso.
One coffee. Most jobs.
Our most popular coffee. Brazil usually at the heart, with the accompanying coffee changing alongside the harvest calendar.
Chocolatey, forgiving and reassuringly consistent. Built for espresso. Good with milk, smooth served black and very nice as a full-bodied filter.
Milk Chocolate · Caramel · Biscuit
Current components
Brazil — Santa Cruz
Natural process
Brewing
Espresso
18g in · 36g out · 28–32 seconds
Filter
60g coffee · 1 litre water · Just off the boil
Pigeons
Roast: Medium
Local character. International coffee.
Pigeons are underestimated, remarkably adaptable and generally found wherever people are getting something to eat. We respect the system.
Pigeons is Northern Weather’s moving position for coffees with a little more character: seasonal arrivals, unusual lots and things we believe deserve releasing into the general population.
The coffee may change. The name stays above the door.
Available until it flies off.
Nice as Espresso or a full bodied Filter.
Notes: Dark Chocolate cream biscuit. Still retains a very pleasant but mild acidity.
CURRENT COFFEE
The present edition was grown in Colombia by Arturo Arango and processed naturally.
Drying the coffee inside its fruit gives it plenty of sweetness, ripe fruit and a little more volume than a very tidy washed coffee. Interesting without becoming an endurance event.
COLOMBIA
ARTURO ARANGO
NATURAL PROCESS
SWEET · FRUITY · FULL
ESPRESSO STARTING POINT
18G IN
50–60G OUT
AROUND 30 SECONDS
Pigeons moves around. The grinder may need to follow.
Filter Guide: 60g coffee to 1 litre of water, just off the boil. Adjust to suit.
Northern Weather Decaf
Roast: Medium
A decaf coffee deservedly on the top shelf, with its caffeinated partner.
Decaf has spent years being treated like the joyless poor relation of coffee.
Northern Weather Decaf is sweet, balanced and roasted with the same attention as everything else.
Nothing missing except the caffeine.
ESPRESSO STARTING POINT
18G IN
45–50G OUT
AROUND 30 SECONDS
Decaf sometimes runs differently. Adjust accordingly. No inquiry will be held.
Filter Guide: 60g coffee to 1 litre of water, just off the boil.
New arrivals - Pre Order
Subtraction HALF CAFFEINE - Pre Order
Roast: Light
PRE-ORDER
Available to buy now. Roasted and dispatched from early September 2026.
SUBTRACTION
Roast: Medium
Some caffeine. Not all of it.
A half-caf coffee made from equal parts VAN and FUTURE DECAF.
Sweet, chocolatey and steady. Built for afternoons, evenings and those occasions when another coffee sounds like a good idea but the full consequences do not.
It tastes like coffee because it is coffee. We’ve simply removed a considerable part of the problem.
Good with milk. Smooth served black. Nice as espresso or a full-bodied filter.
Notes: Milk Chocolate · Caramel · Biscuit.
CURRENT COFFEE
50% VAN
50% FUTURE DECAF
VAN provides sweetness, chocolate, caramel and body. FUTURE DECAF keeps the same familiar shape while taking the edge off proceedings.
The individual coffees may change with the harvest calendar. The subtraction remains operational.
ESPRESSO GUIDE
Start with 18g in / 40g out / 28–32 seconds.
FILTER GUIDE
60g coffee to 1 litre of water, just off the boil.I’m
ADJUST ACCORDING TO EQUIPMENT AND TEMPERAMENT
Roasted in Penistone, South Yorkshire.
BRIGHTER LATER
Roast: Light
Brighter Later is the lively one. Clean, juicy and carrying considerably more optimism than its roaster. It has the brightness people mean when they talk about acidity, without becoming a glass of lemon juice. Brew it carefully if you enjoy that sort of thing. Put it in a cafetière if you don’t. It remains coffee either way.
CURRENT COFFEE
Kenya Igutha
Tasing Notes - Forest Fruits. Orange Juice
Washing Station Lot
Process - Fully washed
Bean Varieties - Batian, Ruiru 11, SL 28, SL 34
Altitude - 1,600 meters above sea level
In the Mukurweini District of Nyeri County, roughly I70 km north of Nairobi, is the Igutha Factory, beautifully sandwiched between the elegant Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare ranges.
The Factory belongs to the Rugi Farmer Cooperative Society (FCS) which was started back in 2005. The same year, the Factory was constructed and opened to the members of the FCS. Currently, the FCS maintains 6,500 members, 700 of which sell cherries to the Igutha Factory.
60G COFFEE
1 LITRE WATER
ADJUST ACCORDING TO EQUIPMENT AND TEMPERAMENT
Roasted in Penistone, South Yorkshire.
DARKNESS
Roast: Darker
PRE-ORDER
Available to buy now. Roasted and dispatched from early September 2026.
For people who prefer their coffee to taste unmistakably like coffee.
At some point, dark roasting became something speciality coffee had to apologise for. We have decided not to.
Darkness begins with the same dependable idea as WORK, then stays with the roaster a little longer. More chocolate, more body and considerably less discussion about acidity.
It cuts through milk, works well in espresso and remains reassuringly present in a large mug.
Not burnt. Not frightened of the heat either.
CURRENT COFFEE
This edition combines coffee from Brazil and Costa Rica, roasted further for additional chocolate, body and weight.
BRAZIL + COSTA RICA
DARKER · HEAVIER · COMFORTING
MILK WELCOME
ESPRESSO STARTING POINT
18G IN
45–50G OUT
AROUND 30 SECONDS
Dark coffee. Light guidance.
Roasted in Penistone, South Yorkshire.
*PRE-ORDER
Available to buy now. Roasted and dispatched from early September 2026.
If your order contains other coffee, everything will be dispatched together. If you need the other coffee sooner, please place a separate order.
Espresso Guide: Start with 18g in / 36g out / 28 - 32 second extraction.
Filter Guide: 60g coffee to 1 litre of water, just off the boil.
LP FILTER - LONG PLAY COFFEE
SUNDAY BEST
Roast: Lighter
PRE-ORDER
Available to buy now. Roasted and dispatched from early September 2026.
Roast: Light
Life through a filter.
LP is our all-out filter coffee. Selected and lightly roasted for clarity, character and taking your time.
It has no espresso duties. It doesn’t need to cut through milk or keep a café queue moving. Its only job is to make a really good cup of filter coffee.
The coffee changes with each album. The format remains.
Put a record on. Let it finish.
CURRENT ALBUM
SUNDAY BEST
[COFFEE NAME]
[COUNTRY · REGION]
[PRODUCER]
[PROCESS · VARIETIES]
[FLAVOUR NOTES]
This is where we’ll tell you about the coffee currently playing: who produced it, where it grew and why we chose it.
FILTER GUIDE
Start with 60g of coffee to 1 litre of water.
Use fresh water just off the boil. Adjust the grind to suit your brewer.
Filter the coffee. Filter those thoughts.
WHOLESALE.
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Coffee for cafés, workplaces and useful places and retail shelfs.
Roasted in Penistone.
Machines looked after.
