Back Yard Coffee

ditchling sits in the east sussex countryside with the south downs pressing close, not the kind of place you'd expect a serious roasting operation to take root. but back yard coffee, out on ditchling common at the sm tidy industrial estate, has built exactly that. the setting is unglamorous in the way working roasteries tend to be, unit m in a cluster of industrial buildings, and that's fine because the coffee is the point. the people who come back regularly do so with some conviction, which in a small village carries more weight than it might elsewhere. if you're heading out from hassocks or cutting across the common, it's worth timing your visit around a fresh batch rather than treating it as an afterthought.