Where it all began...

ORIGIN:     Aberdeenshire, Scotland       DATE: Aug 2018

As you may or may not know i (Paul) work offshore and one of the perks of working in the oil and gas industry is the time off. I work on rotation: two weeks on, three weeks off (jammy, I know). So when I’m at home, I get to spend a lot of time catching up with friends and family over a fine brew of coffee – and these days I spend just as much time making it! Drink enough of it and you’ll start to get a taste for the stuff. Over these catch-ups I began to develop a taste for speciality coffee, and before long I was seeking out the best places in my local area to go for a good cup of coffee.

I’d often head down to Glasgow and Edinburgh, where the coffee scene was buzzing, and the quality of flavours was incredible. The big draw for me was the passion people had for their coffee – you’d get to hear all about where it had come from and how it’d been made. My work in the oil and gas industry involves looking at processes and systems, so that whole side of actually making coffee was fascinating to me. A keen coffee bean, I found myself going off and researching how it was processed, the varietals, the different roasting types, and everything else that goes into creating the beautiful taste of coffee… and I couldn’t wait to start roasting my very own.

A roast by any other name…

… wouldn’t sound anywhere near as good as Kilted Coffee! I knew all along that I wanted to bring something Scottish into the name and branding of the company – I was born and raised in the North East. After a family meal one evening, it was my mother-in-law who suggested “Kilted Coffee.” As soon as I heard it, I knew we had our name.

One roast at a time...

… the time and patience to perfect each roast is a reflection on how we have grown our business. After riding solo for a few years, my wife Kim "officially" joined the Kilted Coffee team in 2020. After having our first Son in 2019 Kim decided to take the leap and not go back to work and drive my dream of Kilted Coffee even further. (I am forever grateful for this) and as if we weren't busy enough we had our second son in 2021 and so we needed some extra help, thats where Kims mum Ann took on the role as Chief coffee packer. We really couldn't have done it without her, her precision and ability to work to a time scale is second to none and she still manages to golf and look after her grandchildren- super woman! And then we have Kim's dad, he is our delivery guy and fixer, again we don't know what we would do without him- nothings too big an ask and i think he enjoys being kept busy as a retired man!

Now that our boys are getting a bit bigger we look forward to expanding Kilted Coffee and you never know, maybe in the future they will become part of our team. But for now they are certainly our drive to running this business. 

Thank you for taking the time to read our story and we hope that you enjoy our coffee as much as we enjoy roasting it :)