Argyll Coffee
Back in 2018 Eve McFarlane had an idea – to start roasting coffee here on Argyll’s Secret Coast. She has grown the business into a coffee roasting enterprise, selling roasted speciality coffee to wholesale and trade customers as well as directly to customers online and through various retail outlets.
Eve at Carry Farm … drinking coffee
Eve imports coffee from all over the coffee growing world and sells it either as single origin small batches or devises her own blends specific to different flavour profiles and brewing methods. For example the award winning Secret Roast is currently a blend of Peru El Cedro y El Nispero, Uganda Rwenzori Kisinga, and Colombia Finca Veracruz.
The coffee is loved far and wide by individual customers and by businesses big and small. At Loch Riddon Bothy we try to showcase as many local products as possible and Argyll Coffee is certainly one that we are proud to provide for guests in the bothy.
The iconic Secret Roast blend posing at Ulva Ferry
There are now so many different coffees and combinations that’s its like going into a sweetie shop – you actually just want to try everything. Who could resist these -
‘ This coffee has a lovely tea like delicacy, with big notes of caramel and raspberry’ (Rwanda Rwamatamu Lot 7)
‘We are loving the notes of blackcurrant and muscodado sugar sweetness’ (Kenya Ainabtany AA)
As well as a smorgasbord of coffee, Argyll Coffee also supplies all the kit you might need for your coffee drinking from grinders, Aeropress and drip filters to cafetieres and cold brew makers.
Some of the coffee kit available
Argyll Coffee is a huge supporter of small scale farmers particularly women. Because they deal only in speciality coffee, Eve and her team have access to a huge amount of information related to each batch and love to showcase these coffees and explain a little about the coffee and the farmers both on their website and on their Instagram page.
Eve’s plan is to focus more on coffee grown by women, to make sure that female farmers, who are often paid the least in this male-dominated industry, are fairly recognised for the work they do.
This coffee is from farmer Epiphanie Mukashyaka. She’s a source of inspiration to female entrepreneurs in Rwanda’s coffee sector and beyond
Argyll Coffee loves to support causes whether it’s Project Waterfall which helps to bring clean water to coffee growers around the world or, closer to home, helping to preserve the beautiful temperate Glenan Woods on the edge of Tignnabruaich by producing the special Glenan Blend from which £1 is donated to the Friends of Glenan Woods for every bag sold.
As if this wasn’t enough, Argyll Coffee have their very own coffee bar at Carry Farm, only 10 minutes drive from the Roastery. It’s a great place to while away a few hours - checking out the Hayshed Gallery and Argyll Botany, taking a stroll down to the shore to say hello to the Hebridean sheep and donkeys and of course drinking coffee!
During July and August the Coffee Bar is open every day so what are you waiting for?
Coffee, cake and flowers outside the Carry Farm Coffee Bar