How we work

We're Ollie & Gregoris, the Bakalar team. We came together setting up a Swallow Specialty Coffee in Alicante and we began to roast our own coffee after we opened the store. Bakalar is built on making your coffee a default positive for the world around you, founded with ecological, agroforestry sourced coffee and dedicated to socially ethical coffees. We have years of experience running operations and roasteries from start-up to £5m per annum turnover, and we've been there with specialty coffee clients on their journey from zero over 100 times. Whether you need a partner for roasted coffee, training, equipment or to talk business with, we're able to help.

Here's a litte bit more about how we work, including our standards and what we're here to do!

Buying motive for Bakalar: coffees from agroforestry farming to improve ecology and biodiversity at coffee origins.

Quality levels at Bakalar: with each coffee we ensure that the raw and roasted ingredients reach specialty grade under the SCA and Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) protocols. We sample every roasted batch of coffee with our own process of analysis in green and roasted coffee.

Roast level at Bakalar: we roast to achieve the clearest and most distinctive flavour note available within each raw coffee that we purchase. This tends to be a roast development of 15-25% in our machinery. We produce roasted coffee to Agtron colours that tend to sit between 85 and 105, meaning that we roast light or light-medium. We roast ‘omni’ by default to allow use of our coffee with all brewing methods, but we have the ability to roast bespoke to your needs.

Minimum purchase to use B2B pricing: 6kg net weight - email us at hello@bakalarcoffee.com to request wholesale access to our online store and see correct pricing!

Deliveries: fulfilled with DHL or Correos Express.

Coffee labels are available in English, Spanish (or your preferred language if you don't mind waiting.)

Raw coffee sourcing service: we are able to source coffees for your requirements, which will require a sales contract and a total roasted purchase of 103kg or more guaranteed. This can be for a specific flavour, process or other requirement.

Roasting options: we roast in machinery at different levels of scale: 120kg, 5kg, and for samples we can offer 50-100gr. We can roast to order, but we prefer always to leave you with rested coffee to allow you to taste it at its best.

Equipment

Equipment Sourcing Service with Bakalar

We source equipment from a variety of manufacturers and distributors, and design our solutions for business clients based on your exact needs, budget and preferences for new or second hand equipment.

If you are looking into equipment for your existing or new project, please contact us to learn our approach to the project and its concept so we can build a bespoke solution for your plans.

We regularly source equipment from industry leading brands such as Mahlkönig, La Marzocco, Victoria Arduino, Slayer.

With water filtration, we use on-site water testing to build your proposal of options, and utilise options from BRITA, BWT, Bluewater and Waterdrop amongst other brands where needs can be met.

For accessories including your barista kit, tools and any retail goods we are able to distribute directly to you.

In ceramics and glassware, we are a provider of the leading brand NotNeutral to allow you access to excellent specialty coffee with the correct serving dimensions, to promote excellence in latte art and sensory perception of drinks created.

For all goods and services that we provide, we are able to offer guarantees, financing terms, maintenance and ongoing repairs.