Our Story
Primarily, we are coffee roasters so at Lot Sixty One it all starts with buying the best green beans fresh from the current harvest season from farms from different parts of the world. We sample roast and grade our beans and conduct quality control to ensure the utmost quality. Our beans are then hand roasted locally on our Giesen roaster, to celebrate the unique flavours of the coffee produced by the farmer. As roasters we have the great opportunity and responsibility to return gratitude to both coffee growers and coffee drinkers. There is no auto-pilot with craft roasting. It is both an art and a science.
WHAT WE DO
We roast our beans twice a week at our roaster, which is currently based in the Hard Rocks Business Center in Burmarrad. We deliver our coffee beans the same week to a few establishments and our own Coffee Bar in Valletta and St Julian’s ensuring maximum freshness. You wouldn’t find our coffees on the supermarket shelf, or on every other shop front that claims to sell the best coffee. We take great care to source and roast the best beans we can find, we have a good time doing it and love to share our passion with coffee drinkers. At Lot Sixty One we are constantly innovating and seeking the latest and greatest way of brewing coffee, sharing our knowledge and passion with our partners and consumers, giving them the skill set to make or consume great tasting coffee on a consistent basis.
Coffee Distributors
We Supply our coffee to a good number of leading coffee shops, hotels and restaurants in Malta. We roast twice a week and supply the freshest coffee on the Island. Contact us on +35679841561 or drop us an email at malta@lotsixtyonecoffee.com.
“You can learn the technique, but passion is cultivated through dedication, love, pride and respect in your work”
COFFEE FARMS
Coffee is one of the world's most popular beverages and 80% of it is produced by 25 million smallholders.
Around 125 million people worldwide depend on coffee for their livelihoods. It is the most valuable and widely traded tropical agricultural product and is mainly produced by smallholder farmers. Many of them however are unable to earn a reliable living from the coffee they produce.
Coffee is well known for being a boom and bust commodity. Global coffee production varies from year to year according to weather conditions, disease and other factors, resulting in a coffee market that is inherently unstable and characterised by wide fluctuations in price. This price volatility has significant consequences for those who depend on coffee for their livelihood, making it difficult for growers to predict their income for the coming season and budget for their household and farming needs.
BUYING FAIRTRADE COFFEE
When you choose Fairtrade coffee, not only can farmers build a better quality of life for their families and communities, they can invest in growing better quality beans too.
Fairtrade coffee farmers invest at least 25 percent of their Fairtrade Premium in improving productivity and quality.
Choose Fairtrade coffee and you’re also supporting farmers to fight the challenges they may face. These include the effects of a changing climate, low and unpredictable incomes and in some coffee growing communities, there may not be enough food available for three to four months a year.
Being part of Fairtrade has meant better knowledge about protecting the local environment and the chance to plant other crops and buy livestock to put more food on the table.