Butterworth & Son roasts coffee and sells tea to trade and retail customers from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The family’s connection with tea goes back to the 19th century, when Harry Butterworth worked as a tea dealer in the Manchester area, where the Butterworth name comes from. Rob Butterworth is the owner.

The in-house roastery works five days a week. The most popular blends are roasted on a large Diedrich and the specialty lots on a smaller machine, with new single origins every month. The focus is on coffees from smallholdings and indigenous communities, where growing coffee helps preserve the environment and traditional ways of life. Will Greavner, head of quality control and sensory and the 2025 UK SCA Cup Tasters Champion, created the Spring and Winter blends. In 2023 the roaster struck an exclusive deal to supply a range of rare coffees to Selfridges in London.

The range runs from everyday blends such as the 100% Espresso 4Bean Blend, Artisan Espresso, Latino and Guat’s Up! to a Gold Coffee line of single origins from Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala and Kenya, several decafs, Rare & Exceptional lots and seasonal blends for spring, summer, autumn and winter. For cafés and other businesses it also supplies, installs and maintains coffee and tea equipment and runs barista training. Web orders can be collected from the warehouse in Bury St Edmunds.

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