Pricey Inexperienced Espresso Roasters Grows In Glasgow

Pricey Inexperienced Espresso Roasters Founder Lisa Lawson pushing the corporate’s 25-kilo Probat machine into the brand new roastery. All pictures courtesy of Pricey Inexperienced.

Pricey Inexperienced Espresso Roasters, the 2025 Micro Roaster of the 12 months, has gotten considerably much less micro with the opening of a brand new 13,500-square-foot manufacturing headquarters in its dwelling metropolis of Glasgow, Scotland.

In a refurbished Forties warehouse on Brook Avenue in Bridgeton, the brand new facility quintuples the roasting firm’s capability whereas accommodating an anticipated 30% gross sales soar this yr.

Pricey Inexperienced was the primary European roastery to win Roast journal’s Roaster of the 12 months award, which honors roasters that pair prime quality with robust sustainability, training and group commitments.

Lisa Lawson, who based Pricey Inexperienced in 2011 and has since grown it to 10 workers, mentioned the growth will enable for extra espresso quantity whereas extending the licensed B Corp’s efforts to succeed in net-zero carbon emissions.

Lisa Lawson.

“This transfer proves {that a} small, values-driven enterprise can develop and nonetheless maintain onto its excessive requirements in espresso roasting, buyer focus and function,” Lawson mentioned in an announcement shared with DCN. “It lastly offers us the area to additional spend money on our espresso program and to behave on the sustainability objectives we’ve had for years — from renewable vitality and waste discount to opening our doorways wider to the group that’s supported us from day one.”

Along with roasting and packing, the brand new roastery headquarters contains devoted coaching, cupping and occasion areas.

Positioned in a former textile manufacturing unit space rejuvenated by artist studios, workshops and different inventive companies, the roastery additionally presents a click-and-collect service for customers looking for freshly roasted espresso to go.

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