Oddy Knocky is an independent coffee roastery in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It started because specialty coffee had begun to feel boring to its founders, with the same flavours, the same language and the same rules, and it set out to make coffee more exciting without making it intimidating or exclusive. It roasts constantly and keeps things simple: “we don’t take ourselves too seriously… but we take the coffee seriously”.

Caramel Kush is a natural from the Molla station in Sidama, Sticky Fingers a washed Kenyan from the Karimikui station of the Rungeto co-operative in Kirinyaga, Sundae Best an anaerobic natural from Daye Bensa’s Rumudamo station, and The Duke a washed Kent from Ngila Estate on the edge of the Ngorongoro cloud forest in Tanzania. Holy Sh*t is a Red Bourbon from the Vergara family’s Las Flores farm in Pitalito, put through thermal shocks and several stages of anaerobic fermentation. The House Blend, Brazil from Fazenda Barrinha with Colombia from smallholders around San Agustín, is the coffee most of its customers come back for, and Serene is a sugarcane decaf from Rwanda.

For cafés and other businesses, its wholesale coffees are roasted weekly and fully traceable, with a core range for everyday service and rotating coffees alongside. Oddy Knocky supplies and installs commercial machines and grinders from La Marzocco, Mahlkönig and Mazzer, trains baristas, helps with dial-ins and brew recipes, and supplies coffee and kit for festivals, office events and weekend markets.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Oddy Knocky Coffee