Coaltown Journal

NEW - POSTAL FRIENDLY BAGS - Friendly for your letter box, friendly to our environment

Our New Retail Bag Range We have rolled out our new 200g bags from today. These will replace our previous retail bag option with a new, slim design, which allows us to offer a postal ready option t...

Coffee & Conversation with Melin Tregwynt's James Lamb

Melin Tregwynt is a wool mill based in the remote woods of Pembrokeshire, producing Welsh wool blankets, cushions, clothing, accessories and bags. There’s been a mill on the site since the 17th cen...

Meet the Family: Melin Tregwynt

Welcome to our fourth episode of Meet the Family, our series where we shine a spotlight on some of our wholesale customers.      Melin Tregwynt is a wool mill based in the remote woods of Pembrokes...

Coffee & Conversation With Hacer Developments' Carwyn Davies

Carwyn Davies is the managing director of Hacer Developments, which is a property investment and development company, focussed on urban regeneration and bringing nature into living and working spa...

Brazil Origin Trip 2022

Coaltown was invited by Volcafe to visit several farms across Brazil to learn about some of the latest advances in coffee agronomy, and sample some of the finest coffees the country has to offer, b...

Meet the Family: Blŵm Cardiff

Welcome to our third episode of Meet the Family, our series where we shine a spotlight on some of our wholesale customers.      Blwm opened in March 2022, after a year-long process of getting the l...

World Chocolate Day: Iced Mocha Recipe

To celebrate world chocolate day, we've decided to share with you our iced mocha recipe.   Iced mochas are a classic; refreshing and delicious, they're perfect for a hot day like today.   To make o...

Coffee & Conversation with Leia Morrison

Leia Morrison is a 23 year old photographer, based in and working between both West Wales and London.  She caught our eye after working with Hiut Denim, a brand we absolutely love and who we felt s...

The Return of Cooltown: Our Cold Brew Guide

If you ask anyone at Coaltown what the worst part of winter is for them, they'll say it's the fact it's too chilly for a cold brew.  So, with this week's warmer weather, we absolutely jumped at the...

Coaltown Hits the Highlands: Royal Highland Show 2022

We were lucky enough to be invited to the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh by The Welsh Government and the event’s organisers, BIC Innovation. We held a stand along with a selection of other artisa...