Craft beer pubs have their tap takeovers. So why shouldn’t cafes hand their grinders over to one roaster?

That’s the philosophy behind a new concept being trialled from next week at Full Court Press on Broad Street, with Hasbean the first roaster to show their wares from Monday for a fortnight.

“One of the main objectives for Full Court Press was to present coffee in a more considered manner, treating it as a specialist ingredient,” says owner Mat North (below).

“To this end, we rotate our single origin offerings on both espresso and filter regularly, with any one coffee lasting between three to 10 days, providing our customers with the widest possible range of flavours and experiences.

“Hand in hand with this goes information and education, showing how region, process and variety can change the flavour experience.

“With this in mind we’ve turned to our roasters, each four to six weeks will be giving one of them control over what we brew for a fortnight, giving them the chance to showcase unusual coffees, explore the impact of process, roast profile and variety on flavour.

“When we first discussed the idea with the guys at Hasbean, they grasped the concept perfectly, and have drawn up a really exciting menu on both filter and espresso.”

The two weeks of the Hasbean takeover will focus on an individual farmer and the separate farms that their families cultivate.

In week one, it will be the farms of Rafael and Carmen Silva Hoff in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador, and in the second week the focus will be on the farms of Dr Erwin Mierisch in Nicaragua.