About Us

Welcome to Lowen. 

We are a specialty coffee roasters based in Folkestone, Kent. I’ve spent the last few years down in Cornwall working in specialty coffee. Lowen is a Cornish word meaning ‘joyful’ to honour the time I spent there and the incredible experiences I had. With this in mind, my aim with Lowen is to create a business that has a strong sense of place and community, and a set of core morals that we operate around.

Front and center is, of course, the coffee. We buy premium quality coffee from importers who work closely and transparently with producers and pay them appropriately for their harvests based on their actual living costs. Our coffee prices are reflective of this; the more expensive the coffee, the higher the production costs are for the growers. Our importing partners often fund projects that support the producers they work with whether that is through training programmes to improve their farming practices, or helping improve the infrastructure around the farms to ensure the coffee can be transported easily and quickly. 

I have some goals that I want to achieve with Lowen as the business hopefully grows and expands. But for now, we are starting very small scale with big intentions.

Courtney x