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About Blue Coffee Box
Blue Coffee Box is a family-run speciality coffee subscription, started in 2017 by father and son Jon and Harvey Butt. Every delivery brings a different single-origin coffee, freshly roasted by one of the UK's top independent roasters and prepared the way you brew: whole beans, or ground for a cafetière, filter, AeroPress or espresso.
Every coffee scores 83+ on the SCA quality scale, the top 2% of coffee grown worldwide, and comes with a notecard giving its flavour notes and origin information. It arrives through the letterbox in a recyclable EcoBag inside a compostable EcoPack mailer, with free UK delivery and our Taste Guarantee: if you don't like a bag, we send an alternative free of charge. Sister brand Blue Tea Box sends loose-leaf tea in the same way.
Fast facts
- Founded: 2017, by father and son Jon and Harvey Butt
- Based: Canterbury, Kent
- Customers: 30,000+ served since 2017
- Reviews: 4.5/5 from 600+ reviews
- Roasters: curated from the UK's 300+ independent roasters
- Origins: 28 coffee-growing countries so far
- Plans: The Bag £13.99 · The Box £24.99 · The Big Box £41.99, with free UK delivery
- Gifts: 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, from £13.99. Gift subscriptions never auto-renew.
- Tea: loose-leaf tea subscriptions from £9.99, with a free infuser in the first box
- Packaging: recyclable EcoBag inside a compostable EcoPack mailer
Our story
In 2014, on business trips to the USA, Jon Butt came across coffee subscriptions that curated beans from many small roasters. In the UK, subscriptions tended to sell coffee from just one roaster. In 2017 his son Harvey, then studying for his A-levels and keen to avoid a student loan, suggested they start one here, and Blue Coffee Box was born. Harvey has since built Barista, our in-house order management system, and every welcome card is still signed "Harvey and Jon".
"Most of us have never tasted coffee at its best. We do the hunting across the UK's independent roasters, so every delivery is a chance to discover a new favourite. Once you taste coffee of this quality, you won't want to drink ordinary coffee again."
Jon Butt, co-founder
Story ideas
- Christmas gifts that keep arriving: coffee and tea gift subscriptions that fit through the letterbox, start on a chosen date and never auto-renew. See our coffee gift subscriptions.
- Backing independent roasters: each delivery introduces a different small UK roaster, credited by name. Meet the roasters we work with.
- A father-and-son business: started by a dad and his A-level son, still run by the same family.
- Better coffee at home: our brewing guide explains grind, ratio and method simply.
- Easier-to-dispose packaging: read about our packaging and sourcing.
As featured in
Good Food · Forbes · The Times · Cosmopolitan · GQ, and many more.
Images and logos
High-resolution product and lifestyle photos and our logos are in the press kit download. They're free to use for editorial coverage of Blue Coffee Box. Please credit "Blue Coffee Box".
Try it yourself
We'd love you to taste the coffee for yourself. Email us and we'll send you a sample box for review.
Media enquiries
For interviews, samples for review or more information, contact Jon Butt, co-founder, at [email protected].
Customer questions? Please use our contact page.
