What Crosby Coffee is known for
Jack Foster began roasting coffee as a hobby in his mother's living room in 2013, founding Crosby Coffee the following year. The roastery now runs four Merseyside cafés, pouring single origins like Uganda African Moon alongside its Iron Men Blend.
Jack Foster started roasting coffee as a hobby in his mother's living room in 2013, formalising it into Crosby Coffee the following year — a kitchen-table-to-company arc that's still traceable in the roastery's stated founding principle: specialty coffee should be accessible to everyone, not positioned as a luxury good. The operation now runs from a head office and roastery on Glegg Street in Liverpool, with three further café locations across Waterloo, Lark Lane and Hightown, a genuine multi-site Merseyside footprint rather than a single flagship shop.
The bean lineup runs wide: single origins from Guatemala Antigua, Brazil Aparecida, Uganda African Moon, Honduras Yojoa, Rwanda Wimana and Colombia sit alongside a standing house blend, the Iron Men Blend, plus subscription options that include a dedicated decaf and office-supply tier. Beyond retail, Crosby runs barista training courses, coffee-tasting experiences and roastery tours out of the Glegg Street site, alongside wholesale accounts and home espresso equipment sales — an education and equipment business layered onto the roasting itself.
From one person's living-room hobby to a four-location Merseyside roaster with its own training program, the range of single origins on offer is unusually wide for a company this size.
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Liverpool, England
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