Groundstate is a café roastery in the Liberties, Dublin 8, set up in 2018 by Andy and Mark. It began as a café and yoga studio. Its focus has since moved to roasting. Groundstate roasts on a Giesen W15A drum roaster and supplies cafés, restaurants and bars across Ireland.

The café serves seasonal vegetarian and vegan dishes alongside meat options, with vegetables from McNally Family Farm in North Dublin, sourdough from Firehouse Bakery in Delgany, free-range eggs from North Wicklow Eggs and smoked bacon from Pigs on the Green in Offaly. The signature house blend, Tripping Thiago, combines Brazilian and Ethiopian coffees and is served in the café. Takeaway cups are fully compostable, and customers who bring reusable cups are rewarded.

Groundstate names its core coffees after characters. Silly Simon, a washed Colombian espresso from Huila, is one of the longest-standing; Hipster Stan is a sugarcane decaf; Donnie Darko is a darker, more traditional espresso blend of Brazil, Uganda and Tanzania. A limited Holographic Series in 175-gram bags covers experimental lots such as a geisha fermented in a nitrogen bioreactor by Andres Quiceno in Risaralda.

Groundstate plants native Irish trees with Hometree for every sack of green coffee and donates to Clean Coasts, a cause tied to the team’s roots in Tramore, County Waterford. By its own account, it was the first coffee roaster in Ireland to bring in the Get More reusable, track-and-trace 5-kilo bag system for its wholesale partners.

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