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If you don't love it, we'll replace it or refund it. No fuss, no forms.
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4.9 on Trustpilot
From 3,220 reviews
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Our story
Good strong coffee, since 2011
We started CafePod because the coffee in our kitchens was nowhere near the coffee on our high streets. Fifteen years on, that is still the whole job: a proper, dark, full cup at home, without the ceremony.
- Founded
- 2011, London
- Roasted
- Small batches, North Lincolnshire
- Recognised
- Great Taste Producer
- Trustpilot
- 4.9 from 3,220 reviews
- The range
- Pods 8 to 12, beans and ground 3 to 12
2010: good coffee out, bad coffee in
Coffee shops were opening on every corner and the flat white had become a habit. At home it was a different story. Nespresso machines had arrived, but the pods to go in them were hard to find and harder to enjoy.
2011: two friends and a pod
Peter Grainger and Brent Hadfield set out to put serious coffee in a Nespresso compatible pod, one of the first UK brands to do it. The idea was never clever. Take the coffee people already loved in the café and get it into the machine on the kitchen counter.
Then we went the other way
Premium coffee spent the next decade getting lighter, brighter and more acidic. We kept roasting darker. Every blend is built for flavour and weight in the cup, by tasters, not to win points for complexity. If that sounds like your kind of coffee, it probably is.
How we make it
- A longer, darker roast than the trend. Depth and body first, brightness second.
- Every coffee carries a number. Pods run from 8 to 12, beans and ground from 3 to 12. Up to 9 is all Arabica. From 10 we add Robusta on purpose, for punch.
- Blended and roasted in small batches in North Lincolnshire, and sent with months on the date, not weeks.
- The pods are aluminium and recyclable. The decafs are CO2 decaffeinated, with no solvents.
The people
CafePod was started by Peter Grainger and Brent Hadfield and is still run by a small team who answer the phone themselves.
We believe in old-school customer service. While other businesses reach for bots, we are bringing back phone calls. If something is wrong, tell us and we will put it right: if you don't love it, we'll replace it or refund it.
Awards
Great Taste is judged blind by a panel of food and drink professionals. These are the coffees that have picked up stars.
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Supercharger Espresso
- Great Taste Award winner