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c Management

Roasting
for
abroad
The team also does
wholesale even to
overseas customers

The Redemption On contrary, Redemption Coffee Roasters try to pro-
mote the concept of their work to the outside world as
Redemption Roasters started their work with a much as they can to show the coffee community and the
very high benchmark: Her Majesty’s Prison Aylesbury. world that a positive commercial environment can be
HMP Aylesbury is a Young Offender Institution situat- created behind bars and that exceptional specialty coffee
ed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. The prison can come from places and people you wouldn’t expect.
is famous for being one of the toughest teenage prisons Right now the roasters provide a 5-days-a-week program
in UK, there is even a documentary about it, most of with a syllabus that covers everything somebody new
young men in custody are gang-members or people who to specialty coffee will need to know in order to credibly
are not new to prisons. Helping young men to learn new apply for a job at some of the best third wave shops in
skills, there are a number of private-sector work ini- London. They roast on a Petroncini and teach on Sanremo
tiatives in prisons as well as educational courses. Com- and Faema machines with Mazzer and Mahlkoenig grinders.
mon examples of work done by prisoners in the UK are: Never the less, only best student can become roasters as
sorting recycling or waste, mail-related manual tasks and roasting comes at the very end of curriculum. “Only the
call handling. Some are better at preparing offenders for most advanced baristas will be introduced to roasting. And
the outside, some are worse. Very few market their con- we are heavily oversubscribed at the workshop, only the
cepts, most keep it quiet and do not promote their ideas most passionate candidates will be allowed to be part of
outside of the prison. our workshop.”

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