BLUE TURACO COFFEE

Ask people for help! We enjoyed listening to Bay Burdett, Simas Jarasunas, Noor Ali and our very own Wycliffe Sande talk about working with supermarkets as a small brand at the Bread & Jam festival yesterday. We sat on the front row - unashamed groupies. The overriding lesson of the day: Ask for help! People are more willing than you expect. Help can be: - an introduction - an ear - ⁠sharing some experience - ⁠sharing information - ⁠or feedback - ⁠or advice - ⁠a like or a share of a post - ⁠buying our coffee (ok, we added that one) We all feel good when we can helps. Ask for it. Give it. Enjoy it. Happy sunny Thursday evening ☀️ Let’s go! 💙 But seriously, if you did want to buy some coffee, you can get 15% of your first order - link in comments >>> #community #robusta #specialtycoffee #startup

It's tomorrow! We're excited to be Bread & Jam Festival tomorrow and Wednesday. An opportunity to meet and hear from great people in our food & drink world. We know our brains will be buzzing with ideas on how to keep growing the Blue Turaco Mission. Wycliffe will also be speaking in a panel - and sharing our journey from smallholder coffee farm to UK retail. It has been a rollercoaster. We like those. Would you like to join us? Bread and Jam festival is the biggest UK event for FMCG challenger brands who want to accelerate the growth of their business in retail, foodservice and D2C. You can use our special promo code for a discounted ticket (20% off) - SPEAKERPAL. Link in comments. 💙 Let's go! * Our mission? Blue Turaco Coffee is the only coffee brand in the UK owned by an actual smallholder coffee farmer. And the only 100% Specialty Robusta coffee on UK shelves (it has a bigger kick than Arabica-based coffee). Our mission is to create a model where coffee truly pays for those who grow it.

528 * The number of cups of coffee drunk on average per person, each year, in the UK! That’s 1.5 cups a day. What’s your number? Higher? Or lower? * 528. A lot opportunities to support smallholder coffee farmers 💪 💙 Let’s go! 🔔 If you haven’t tried our coffee yet, you can get 15% off your first order via the link in the comments. If you have tried it, please pass it on to your friends. #coffee #robusta #specialtycoffee #uganda

🚨How many?! * How many cups of coffee are drunk per person, on average, per year in the UK? Go! Closest guess gets a free pack of our coffee. What’s Friday without a coffee quiz? 💙 #coffee #robusta

Look who's talking. Our very own Wycliffe will be speaking at the Bread & Jam festival next week, about the Blue Turaco journey from coffee farm to UK retail. It's a good news story. We like those. Bread and Jam festival is the biggest UK event for FMCG challenger brands who want to accelerate the growth of their business in retail, foodservice and D2C. You can use our special promo code for a discounted ticket (20% off) - SPEAKERPAL. Link in comments.

Do you live up to your name? It's not that often that a name perfectly describes its subject's character. Do you know whose name perfectly describes its character? ROBUSTA's It's... well... ROBUST. Let us tell you more: ☕ It has body 💪 It's hardy and adaptable to climate conditions ⚡ It holds nearly twice the natural caffeine Arabica 🏔 It grows fast and at all altitudes; crazy high as well as low 🐛 Its natural caffeine also makes it naturally more resilient to pests It lives up to its name. What else lives up to its name? * You may not have tried 100% Specialty Robusta before. Most coffees are arabica based. Some are blended with Robusta. If you'd like to try it you can sign up (link in comments) and there's an introductory discount for you. 💙 Let's go!

You won't believe this, but I met him face to face. Yes, we even had filter coffee together. Last Friday was a huge day for me, one that has been five years in the making. The week had started off with some disappointing news about the cancellation of the Birmingham Coffee Festival. I was going to give a talk there on the specialty robusta revolution. So you can imagine my excitement when James Hoffmann said yes to meeting on Friday the 5th. I went into overdrive with excitement. And for a good reasons For those into tech, your dream person to meet might be Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. For me, there are a few legends in the specialty coffee world I’ve always wanted to meet, have a coffee with and talk about how we can change the coffee world together, for the better. Last Friday, I met one of them. A special, pinch-me moment. I was humbled and way too excited to meet you, James Hoffmann Thank you, Barney😜 Mauleverer for making this happen (more on this another time). I’m an outsider in the UK coffee scene; I’m a smallholder farmer (you don’t get many of those living this side of the equator), and I’m championing specialty robusta (when the specialty coffee market has been focused on arabica - for better part of last 3 decades. So, there are a few people in this industry I am keen to meet. People like you, yes you have an important key part in helping more customers access specialty and premium robusta and myself and BLUE TURACO COFFEE team are eager to make this happen. This, in turn, will impact millions of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda and world over. No-one gets anywhere alone. Collaboration is what we need - in fact it could be the BIGGEST single thing to Make the biggest difference! So I’ll be reaching out. I hear your fears and worries, but I have a solution to those worries and fears. If you see my name in your DMs, it means you mean something to the robusta revolution. James, I learned so much during our chat, and I can't wait to meet again and again. Thank you.. You turned what was looking like a challenging week into a great one. Ps: lets connect if we are not yet Wycliffe Sande - I talk about speciality robusta coffees sustainability, smallholder farmer issues fighting hunger through coffee #metjameshoffman #blueturacocoffee #foundermeetups #collabrations

That's what we thought! We came across the Rory Wynn's work at the London Coffee Festival and thought "we think we might get on". 💪 STRONG COFFEE That's what we do! 💙 Blue Turaco naturally contains nearly twice the caffeine of most coffees. ☕ It's because we use pure Robusta beans, which naturally contain more caffeine than Arabica ones. ☀ A very efficient way to get your morning kick! 🤓 A little Friday Trivia for you. As well as keeping us alert, the caffeine in coffee cherries help protect them from pests too. Clever. Happy Friday from the Blue Turaco Team. ..... 🔔 For 15% off your first order - sign up via the link in the comments.

📣 WAKEY WAKEY - we think you might be sleeping on something * 40% of the world's coffee is Robusta. But no-one knows it. People have heard of its cousin, Arabica - most specialty coffees are Arabica-based so you see it more on coffee packaging, Robusta, on the other hand, has been invisible - grown to scale and low quality and hidden away in blends to give body. No longer! Here's why waking up to Robusta feels GOOD: 💪 It's STRONG Naturally contains 2x the caffeine of arabica - coffee with a kick. 🌍 It's CLIMATE RESILIENT Grows faster, takes up less land and it's a hardier crop. ☕ It's SMOOTH High-quality Robusta tastes remarkably, deliciously smooth. So! Will you join the Robusta Revolution? Sign up to get 15% off your first bag. Link in comments. Everyone likes to try something new - even if it has been around for 100s of years. 💙 Let's go!

There are 3 strong brands in this photo. 1. Gymbox 2. YETI 3. And the one inside the Yeti - Blue Turaco Coffee. 100% Specialty Ugandan Robusta coffee. Naturally contains twice the caffeine of arabica-based coffee 💪 An energy drink given to us by nature. And oh so smooth… Happy Monday! 💙 Let’s go! #robusta #specialtycoffee #sustainablefarming #coffee