Finlay Maclennan is a qualified chef, and purchased The Red Cherry Cafe in Cambridge in 2017 having spent the previous 12 years in farming. Included in the cafe was a coffee roasting business. Finlay asked his father Bruce to take over the coffee roasting once he had been trained by the previous coffee roaster. Bruce later trained Finlay’s sister Bailey in all aspects of coffee roasting, and she was subsequently offered the opportunity to take over the roasting function of the business in 2019, meaning she was then juggling a young family with her coffee roasting position. Having watched and gained knowledge from the previous coffee roaster, the family found coffee roasting fascinating. They feel the role requires you be part cook and part scientist, and a number of factors have to be exact to enable a perfect and consistent coffee. The...