About Little Moments

My story

I’m Erin. I trained in law, then left it for coffee. Every bag of Little Moments is roasted by me, in small batches, in the Irish countryside.

Erin beside the coffee roaster in the roastery

Erin walking along a cobbled street in New York — New York.

Where it began

A flat white in New York.

I was on a trip to New York when I found a little café and ordered a flat white. It had flavours I had never tasted before. I went back about seven times before I flew home.

I tried to buy the beans for my machine at home, but they didn’t ship internationally.

I thought about that cup for years. Then I decided I could do it too. I trained as a roaster in London and New York, and Little Moments began.

Why single origin

Life is all about the little moments. Sometimes we just have to slow down to see them.

A coffee plant takes around five years before its cherries are good enough to harvest. Think of all the little moments it takes to get one cup to you.

That’s why I only roast single origins. I don’t want the coffee to get diminished in a blend.

Freshly roasted coffee beans pouring from the roaster into the cooling tray

The roastery

Roasted here, by me.

Every coffee is roasted by me, in small batches, one coffee at a time.

Coffee isn’t at its best straight out of the roaster. It needs time to rest, so every bag is rested before it’s posted.

Shop coffee

Erin leaning over a row of cupping bowls, smelling the coffee

Tasting

Every coffee is tasted first.

Before a coffee becomes a chapter, I cup it: tasting it side by side with others, spoon by spoon, until I know it’s the one.

Only the coffees I love make it onto the shelf.

Erin standing among coffee trees at Aquiares Estate, Costa Rica

At origin

Every coffee is a chapter.

Each coffee comes from one farm, and I want you to know whose it is. Chapter One is from Antonio “Toño” María at El Mirador farm, in the Perijá region of Colombia.

Chapter Two is from Aquiares Estate in Costa Rica, where I walked through the coffee trees myself.

Two flat whites with latte art on a wooden counter

For cafés

Here for the journey.

I’m here to support the journey, not just to sell beans and leave.

When a coffee trailer bought three bags from me, I drove over the next morning to set their grinder.

Wholesale

Quality control

Moose.

My chow chow, Moose, keeps an eye on everything that leaves the roastery.

He’s the younger brother of my other chow chow, Lola, and the inspiration behind the Little Moments mascot: a dog hugging his cup.

The journey

The story so far

012018
New York
A flat white tastes like nothing I’ve had before. I go back about seven times.
022018–2023
In between
Years of cups shared, thinking about that flat white.
032021
Moose
My chow chow takes charge of quality control.
042023
The build
Work begins on building the roastery.
052023
Training
I leave law behind and train as a roaster in London and New York.
062024
The roastery
Little Moments finds its home, in the Irish countryside.
072024
At origin
I walk through the coffee trees at Aquiares Estate in Costa Rica.
082024
First roast in the roastery
The first beans tumble out of the roaster and into the cooling tray.
09Daily
Cupping
Many coffees, tasted together, to choose each chapter.
102025
Chapter One
The first Little Moments coffee goes out in its striped bag.
112025–26
The first cafés
Ghan House, Kiku and a coffee trailer start pouring Little Moments.