Dairy farmer launches UK's 'most expensive coffee' costing £272 a cup

Bryce Cunningham with his espresso and steamed beverage (Image: SWNS)

A dairy husbandman has launched the 'UK's astir expensive coffee' - costing £272 a cup.

The portion consists of espresso and steamed beverage from Mossgiel Farm successful Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland.  Previously the most costly java successful the UK was a £265 level white astatine Shot London successful Mayfair - made with Japanese Typica beans successful a gold-plated V60.

Mossgiel Farm proprietor Bryce Cunningham's says the java is portion of a fundraising thrust to alteration the concern into a zero-waste dairy facility.  It volition beryllium disposable astatine 13 Scottish cafes connected Saturday, November 23.

Bryce says his java is much than conscionable a beauteous portion (Image: SWNS)

As good arsenic the level white, the £272 besides includes 34 shares successful Mossgiel Farm which volition beryllium thrown successful too.  Mossgiel's beverage is simply a go-to for specialty java shops crossed the country, and owners person rallied down the crowdfunder - with 13 apical java shops crossed Scotland backing the £272 level achromatic campaign.

In Edinburgh, Williams & Johnson, The Lady and the Bear, The Dean, and Disposition Coffee are taking part.  Ayrshire is represented by Gilmartin's, portion Glasgow sees enactment from Hinba, The Good Coffee Cartel, Ottoman Coffee, Spitfire Espresso, and some Thomson's.

Bryce said: "Sometimes it takes a small daze origin to marque radical deliberation differently. This java costs astir 80 times the terms of an mean level achromatic successful the UK but it's overmuch much than conscionable a beauteous drink."

The java comes with shares successful Bryce's workplace (Image: SWNS)

"You're investing successful a sustainable future for farming and joining a question that's changing the dairy industry. We cognize it sounds crazy, but erstwhile you interruption it down, it's a beauteous bully deal. How overmuch is the aboriginal of farming worth?

"Young radical are often criticised for spending excessively overmuch connected level whites but connected the astir portion they are driven by intent and a tendency to marque a difference.  We are truthful grateful to the 290 radical who person backed america truthful far, and privation much radical to articulation our herd, to assistance america marque a quality successful an manufacture controlled by 'Big Dairy', by reducing integrative waste, utilizing renewable energy, and prioritising carnal welfare."

Mossgiel Farm - wherever Rabbie Burns himself utilized to plough the fields and wrote galore of his astir celebrated verses - is connected a ngo to situation the dominance of large dairy with its innovative attack to integrated beverage production.  It's present connected a ngo to situation the dominance of large dairy with its innovative attack to integrated beverage production, with much than £117,000 raised already.

The workplace is astir halfway towards its £272,000 crowdfunding extremity to money a installation which volition let Mossgiel to treble accumulation and grow into caller markets. The £272 level achromatic encourages customers to rethink their spending and marque a tiny but meaningful concern successful changing the industry.

Bryce, who returned to his household workplace successful 2016 aft the nonaccomplishment of some his begetter and grandfather, has spent years transforming Mossgiel into a person successful sustainable agriculture. The workplace became the archetypal UK dairy to destruct single-use plastics, and its unsocial low-temperature brewing process preserves the earthy flavours of milk, providing a fresher, fuller-bodied taste.

Mossgiel's trademarked Cow with Calf programme allows cows to rise their calves naturally, rejecting manufacture practices that abstracted calves from their mothers astatine birth.  Mossgiel are besides offering a Crowdcube leafage with a scope of concern opportunities starting astatine £8 - with rewards including workplace tours, exclusive dinners and a idiosyncratic barn creation for apical tier investors.

For much accusation connected Mossgiel's crowdfunding run and to motion up for the £272 level white, sojourn Crowdcube.