London · United Kingdom
Assembly Coffee
Assembly Coffee is one of 14 London roasters tracked on day9, in Brixton.
Since 2015 · Nick Mabey, Michael Cleland
Overview
Assembly was launched at the London Coffee Festival in April 2015 as the headline sponsor of the inaugural Coffee Masters competition, after a six-month design phase in which co-founders Nick Mabey (a New Zealander, Q-grader and former jazz musician) and Michael Cleland (Australian, brand and insight) gathered owner-operators from leading UK independents to design a roaster around their wholesale partners' actual needs. It started as a sister brand to Volcano Coffee Works and is housed in a converted 19th-century fire station in Brixton.
Known for
- Founded as a wholesale-first roaster designed in collaboration with London's leading independent cafés
- Certified B Corporation and CarbonNeutral® roastery
- Long-running partnership with Colombia's Red Association — a buyer-funded growers' collective
- Headline sponsor of the inaugural Coffee Masters competition at the London Coffee Festival in 2015
- Roastery in a converted 19th-century Brixton fire station running Giesen and Loring equipment
Why it matters
The clearest example of a UK roaster purpose-built around the cafés it serves — Assembly's catalogue, packaging and insight reports were designed in consultation with its first wholesale partners before the company even launched.
Production
- head roaster
- Nick Mabey
- roaster machine
- Giesen and Loring
- roastery location
- Brixton, London (converted 19th-century fire station)
Café
244 Ferndale Road, Brixton, London SW9
Recognitions
- B Corporation certified
- CarbonNeutral® certified