Thomsons Coffee

Thomsons is Scotland's oldest coffee roaster, founded in Edinburgh in 1841 by David Thomson before relocating his family and business to Glasgow's St Vincent Street. In its early decades the company supplied Glasgow's coffee houses and manufactured the Naperian vacuum coffee pot, an early syphon brewer that shipped worldwide.

After Thomson's death in 1892 the business passed through two further families, remaining on Glasgow's Southside where it still roasts today. In 2011 the Jenkins family became only the third owners in the business's history.

Four years later, Thomson's installed Scotland's first Loring Kestrel S35 roaster alongside a vintage Whitmee, a combination that defines their current approach. They describe themselves as Scotland's original coffee roaster, and given the timeline, that claim is hard to dispute.