Masteroast Coffee Co Ltd

How Masteroast came to be At Masteroast, we like to think of ourselves as the original “artisan roaster”. Way back in 1981, our founders Les and Eve Mills, following diverse careers trading sugar, coffee and in exporting earth moving equipment and electronics, decided to set up Ecobev Ltd. a coffee and tea marketing business. By 1983, circumstances suggested an in-house coffee roasting operation should be the way forward and in consequence two very geriatric, pre-war built Whitmee coffee roasting machines were installed in a rented building that was little more than a shed in the village of Newport in North Essex. In these most humble surroundings Masteroast Coffee Company Ltd was born. After some interesting and varying degrees of success, the need for larger and rather more acceptable premises became overwhelmingly apparent and in 1986 the decision was made to purchase a 3,100 square foot industrial building in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. A “new”, little over thirty years old, second hand 30kg Barth roaster was acquired and installed alongside the two faithful old Whitmees. Consistent Growth Within three years this building was part exchanged for a unit twice the size, on the same industrial estate. At the same time, the huge step was made to purchase and install a custom-built 60kg coffee roaster from Lilla of São Paulo, Brazil. While the Barth roaster was retained, reluctantly the Whitmees had to be sold. The next couple of decades saw the purchase of two equally sized adjoining buildings and the installation of the second 120kg Lilla machine. 2010 saw Masteroast’s final move to the other side of Peterborough to our present Fengate home. With further extensions and the acquisition of adjoining land and building, we presently occupy premises of approximately 40,000 square feet on three acres of land. A Roast For Everyone. In order to offer the broadest spectrum of roasting profiles, alongside the larger capacity Lilla, we have two state-of-the-art, semi...