Liverpool Coffee Festival returns this June

Liverpool Coffee Festival is coming back in June and it’s going to be four times bigger than last year’s event!

2024 saw the launch of the festival in the Baltic Triangle, supporting the city’s growing coffee scene and celebrating speciality coffee with a weekend of tastings and talks.

That proved such a success that its creators have decided to do it all again and on a much larger scale.

This year it will take place over four different neighbouring venues – Mill Yard, Sub Rosa, Black Lodge Brewery and Wiff Waff – with well over 100 different coffees from 16 local and national roasteries to try. 

There’ll also be a chance to meet and get some insider tips from the coffee professionals, take part in panel talks, tastings, brewing masterclasses, latte art competitions and treat yourself to coffee-related items including ceramics, fresh bakes and dairy products.

And, if all that wasn’t enough, Press Bros Coffee will be there creating their amazing signature espresso martinis, Black Lodge has a special coffee beer and Ditto is programming a live music stage over the two days, showcasing some great local talent.

Ped Hunter from Botanical Garden and Sub Rosa, and Katy McGrath from Crosby Coffee came up with the idea of a Liverpool Coffee Festival after visiting other similar events in London and Manchester.

They thought a festival here would be an opportunity for coffee lovers to enjoy trying different coffees and learn more about their backstory, as well as supporting independents and the network of farmers and green importers behind the whole bean to cup process.

Ped said:

“We put on the first Liverpool Coffee Festival in April last year and it was amazing to see people really enjoying it and getting involved with it,”

“We’re increasing the roasters this year so there’s going to be 150 coffees from 16 roasteries and another 20 coffee culture-related stalls.

“There’s a really nice mix alongside educational talks and Ditto are curating the live music. 

“Compared to last year’s event it’s going to be about quadruple the size in terms of what’s going on because we’ll have a lot more talks, the live music and more spaces for people to hang out so they can spend the whole day here.

“It’s on for six hours each day, from 10am to 4pm, and obviously people might not want to drink lots of coffees in one hour so there’ll be loads more happening.

“There’ll be all the roasters with different samples then in between they can hang out with family or friends, listen to a talk, play games, eat food – then go back and have some more coffee.”

Ped said: 

“Coffee is best enjoyed around people, but tasting is something we’re never really trained to do so it’s nice to have a chance to learn the language of flavours because there’s so much we can get out of that.

“You might not know why you like a particular coffee shop and its coffee, but it might actually be because they’ve worked with the same farmer for five years.

“We don’t always see all the things that go into an amazing cup of coffee, we just like what we like, but there are so many people behind the scenes in the process of making that amazing cup.

“At Liverpool Coffee Festival, people can come, try some different things, learn a bit more and who knows, they might get a new favourite cup?”

Liverpool Coffee Festival is on Saturday and Sunday, June 7th & 8th from 10am to 4pm. 

For tickets, visit the Liverpool Coffee Festival event page here.

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