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Eteaket founder Erica Moore says a growing number of young
Scottish tea drinkers are moving away from bulk bagged tea
towards higher quality specialty teas.
Photo courtesy Eteaket
One of the first coffee roasters to set up shop in the highlands,
Glen Lyon Cafe, serves specialty coffee to a growing market.
Photo courtesy Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters
number of coffee shops serving excellent coffee. "We've gone
from a landscape of very, very little to this quite diverse land-
scape," says John Thompson, Q grader, trainer, and founder of
the Edinburgh-based consultancy Coffee Nexus.
Much of the growth can be put down to the increasing inter-
est in specialty coffee more widely across the United Kingdom.
The U.K. is Europe's fifth-largest coffee market, and according
to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while London is
"said to have become the European heart of specialty coffee, the
British specialty market reaches far beyond the country's capital."
