meet the producer.
FROM PANAMA TO THE PENNINES
Coffee roasters Dark Woods may travel the globe to source beans but, as Patrick McGuigan discovers, the other half of the artistry happens closer to home
PHOTOGRAPHS: RICHARD FAULKS
The coffee beans roasted by Dark Woods come from exotic locations such as Ethiopia, Costa Rica and Brazil, but the company’s headquarters couldn’t be more British. Headquartered in an old textile mill beside a canal and the River Colne, Dark Woods roasts its beans surrounded by the moorland, dry-stone walls and the ancient woods of the Pennines.