Hi Tristan and welcome!
wow i'm excited at seeing someone from 15 here... i've been to the london one (near old street) a few times and really like the idea of the restaurant helping people less fortunate. That said, i've only been there for breakfast so far.
Anyway, that's quite interesting about the beans you guys use... based on all the stuff around the place, I thought that 15 used illy beans and so i have to admit, i just order juice heh heh
As for the PNG... when I was back in Australia, a very good bean roasting company there only imports PNG and there are some with amazing quality. I'm assuming that the beans are imported green and roasted locally though? that would definately give the best quality...
As for time from roast, i found with the beans i get from HB here, they're very good after about 4 days. However with the PNG ones i've tried, they didn't seem fully developed after 4 days and seemed near optimum after about 5-6 days. It might be interesting to see if you can get the beans to arrive about 4 days post roast and check out the difference?
I'm hoping that i'll be able to make it down to cornwall sometime this year - i'd like to see the eden project as well as visit "padstein"
. When i'm down i'll make sure to pop by 15 and say hi!
Cheers mate!
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