Recent Beans are proud to announce the opening of their second speciality coffee roastery. A brand-new, customer facing coffee roastery in the heart of the district, in Wakefield city centre. After opening our doors in The Queen’s Mill, Castleford for the first time in December 2020, Recent Beans is proud to now be a key part of the local coffee culture, working with both customers and local businesses to improve the quality of coffee brewed in our area. During this time, we’ve created some fantastic partnerships, and friendships, with our regular customers and other local businesses, including a partnership with local Rugby League team, the Castleford Tigers, with the launch of ‘Tiger Blend’.
Recent Beans brand motto is that freshly roasted coffee is just better. We’ve never understood when the biggest selling coffees in supermarkets or big-chain coffee shops are coffees that have been stored for months, or years, on a shelf. Coffee tastes completely different in the first two weeks after it is roasted. Fresh coffee has flavour notes that will disappear if stored too long and the coffee extracts so much better fresh. Once you’ve tasted really fresh coffee, you never return to old beans.
We wanted to really showcase freshly roasted coffee so we decided we would do it the hard way, we would roast all our coffees daily, on small-batch speciality coffee roasters. Many roasters will roast beans once or twice a week in a large capacity roaster and send out from stock. While this is obviously better than supermarket beans, you can lose those amazing first few days after the roast, we won’t do that. Small batches roasted daily.
Recent Beans strays from the mould of other coffee roasters by operating out of working roasteries, open to the public, as both a retail stores and espresso bars. For too long, the magic of coffee roasting has been kept away, behind lock and key, with roasters going above and beyond to keep their secrets. The sights, sounds and smells of a working coffee roastery are magical and deserve to be enjoyed by all coffee lovers. We actively make our roasteries inviting and welcoming places to visit, with a retail store, espresso bar and demonstration areas.
We want all our customers to experience the fresh coffee revolution. Whether that be by visiting our roasteries and sampling coffee at our espresso bar, ordering through our website or visiting one of our hospitality partners in the district. We look forward to further ingraining ourselves into the local coffee culture with the opening of our new roastery on Westgate and are excited to welcome new regular customers & work alongside cafes and bars in the city.
Our new roastery will be officially opened on Friday 17th February at 10am by Councillor Denise Jeffery, in line with the Rhubarb Festival. To celebrate opening during the festival, we are launching an exclusive Kenyan Peaberry coffee, which has natural taste notes of Rhubarb with a deep chocolate body and fruity acidity. This coffee will only be available in our Wakefield roastery, while stocks last. We’ll also be serving a menu of rhubarb spiked coffees through our espresso bar. We look forward to welcoming everybody to our new roastery and are excited to add to the Recent Beans family.
Recent Beans
97-99 Westgate
Wakefield
WF1 1EL
01977 526972