Volcano Coffee Works

It started with a coffee cart Eighteen years ago, in West Dulwich, our founder Kurt Stewart showed up with a vintage Italian Piaggio Ape cart, serving his Full Steam Espresso from the footpath off Rosendale Road. All Kurt wanted to do was introduce more people to better coffee (he knew what that was, being a Kiwi as well as a seasoned chef). They kept coming, so Kurt kept going — and he hasn’t stopped. Today, Volcano Coffee Works has a roastery, a café, and a team of 30 people on a mission to build the best coffee company we can, bean by bean. And the first batch of the day is still roasted by Kurt. Drink Different To make something better, you need to explore new ways of doing it — without the fear of breaking a rule or two. So that’s what we’ve been doing since day one. Buying the best beans, not the cheapest ones. Paying our farmers above fairtrade. Roasting coffee in small batches. We were the first to put speciality coffee into a coffee pod, and one of the first coffee companies to become a B Corp. If there’s a way to make speciality coffee better for the people who grow, brew and drink it, or for our planet, we’ll be working on it. Because great coffee can change more than just your morning: it can change the world, too. Independent Works To make the kind of coffee we wanted to make, we simply had to be independent. We’ve always surrounded ourselves with people who share the same spirit of independence and changing things up — whether they’re a farmer in Brazil, a barista in an independent café, or someone enjoying a cup of Volcano at a WeWork space. Being independent works for us, it works for the people we partner with and serve — so that’s how we will stay. Love People, Love Coffee If there’s one thing we know, it’s that great things happen when you bring people and coffee together. Every cup can make someone’s life a little better, and everyone deserves a fair shot. That’s the belief behind every decision we make. We want our coffee to make things b...