Roastery first, café second · Utrecht
Small Batch is a roastery with eight café seats attached, not the other way round. Two origins at a time, roasted weekly in 12-kilo batches, and sold with the roast date printed larger than the logo — because that's the number that matters.
On the shelf
We roast two coffees at a time and rotate them slowly — depth over novelty. Filter by how you brew.
Roast days
The roaster runs Tuesdays, all day, 12 kilos at a time — small enough to taste every batch, honest enough to bin the ones that miss. Bags go on the shelf Wednesday and into subscriber postboxes Thursday, still off-gassing, at their best a week later.
Stand at the counter on a roast day and you'll get a cupping spoon in your hand whether you asked or not. House rule.
The numbers
Fresh is a date, not a feeling.
Subscription
Roasted Tuesday, posted Wednesday, with a card noting the batch and what we tasted. Pause anytime — holidays happen.
€11 250g, monthly
One bag of whichever origin is singing. For the careful brewer with a small habit.
€19 2 × 250g, monthly
Both origins on. The comparison is the education — same week, same roaster, different mountains.
€34 1kg, monthly
For offices, big households, and people who have stopped pretending about their consumption.
Regulars
The batch card told me my bag missed the profile they wanted and was 'still good, just different'. That honesty converted me for life.
I stood at the counter on a Tuesday and got handed a cupping spoon and a fifteen-minute education. Left with a kilo. No regrets.
My old beans had a 'best before' two years out. These have a roast date eight days ago. You can taste the difference in the first cup.
Roast notes
Visit
The sage-green front on the canal side. Eight seats, one bench, no laptops at the window pair — those are for watching the roaster work.