After decades spent on the front lines of coffee service, slinging espressos and hustlin’ flat whites, we started Bad Hand with a commitment to roasting the best quality coffee while making as little impact to the planet as possible.
It’s not always easy, and we are continually looking into ways to do even better. We test everything ourselves, from the flavour and quality of coffee before it heads out the door, to whether or not our compostable packaging breaks down in home environments - it does.
For us, it’s not merely a ‘green’ box ticking exercise. Our environmental approach is the baseline to everything we do. Our coffee is always ethically grown, harvested and sourced. We roast at our warehouse in Bournemouth where our energy comes from the most renewable energy sources we can get our hands on and a top up from our solar panels. Wholesale orders are delivered by electric vehicle (it’s no longer possible to do it all with our cargo bike!) in tubs that we collect, wash and reuse.
Your support means we can continue to operate in an environmentally responsible way, while never compromising on quality - killer coffee, clear conscience.
Before the warehouse, there were cafes…
In 2007, we set up Boscanova, a speciality coffee shop and cafe serving the good people of Boscombe. We got kinda geeky on the coffee here, bringing a whole heap of different singles and blends from our favourite roasters.
Then, in 2012, we opened South Coast Roast in the centre of Bournemouth, it was a simultaneous start for our step into roasting under the same name. Roasting our own blends and singles before opening up our coffee for wholesale supply in 2014.
By 2018, it was clear we were going to move all of our attention into roasting, and so sold the cafes. Boscanova went to one of our loyal members of staff, and still continues to fire on all cylinders today. The sale of South Coast Roast meant we had to change our name, and we went with Bad Hand Coffee. There is a story behind the name that involves a buffalo hide, and an indigenous American. Quite frankly, the name has nothing to do with coffee - but it felt right, and we like it.
So here we are, holed up at our once derelict warehouse in Bournemouth’s Triangle, a colourful corner of town that we call home, run our roastery, the Tasting Room and coffee training, and house a number of awesome little businesses and friends.
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