Dear Green began in Glasgow in 2011 with just one woman, one trusty roaster and a mission to bring specialty-grade coffee to Scotland. The name is the Scots Gaelic for Glasgow, Dear Green Place, and the company wanted its coffee, and everything else it did, to come from a good place too. It has been a certified B Corp since 2020, has pledged to be a net zero business by 2030, is a member of 1% For The Planet and commits a further 1% of annual turnover to social justice organisations. In September 2026 it was named Sustainable Business of the Year at the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards.

The roastery is in Bridgeton, in the East End, with a showroom and training space. There is no café. Coffee is roasted fresh daily and sold online and wholesale to cafés, offices and workplaces, and Dear Green supplies, installs and services equipment for its wholesale customers. Roastery tours run on selected Fridays for groups of up to ten, with a live roasting demonstration, a blind tasting and a bag of coffee to take home; cupping experiences, latte art classes and SCA-accredited barista and sensory courses run on site as well.

Dear Green established the Glasgow Coffee Festival in 2014 and still organises it, kickstarted the UK roasting championships, created the first women in coffee event in Scotland, and is a Living Wage, Living Hours and Living Pension employer. It works only with import partners and producers it knows and trusts. The range includes coffees from women-led cooperatives in Rwanda and Colombia, organic lots from Peru and Colombia, and house blends named after the lane beside its first roasting space and the Barrowland Ballroom near its former roastery.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Dear Green Coffee Roasters