Hello, I’m Ian. I started my coffee roasting journey in 2016 and four years later the much talked of dream of quitting the day job and opening my own roastery became a reality.
Prior to Brookmill Roastery, I spent eight years teaching in a secondary school in south east London and as anyone who has spent any time in a school will understand, my one little oasis of calm was my 7am coffee. Office door shut. No noise. No emails. V60. 10 minutes. Bliss.
My brilliant and very understanding wife and our two micro-humans have played a huge part in enabling my career leap. Originally from Pembrokeshire, we live in south east London and love nothing more than escaping to the countryside whenever we can.