Blue Goose Coffee

Blue Goose Coffee built its business around compostable Nespresso-compatible pods, a niche where it holds multiple awards including Which? Best Buy, Great Taste Awards, and the World Coffee Innovation Awards 2023. The Soil Association BOOM Award for Best New Organic Product reflects their sourcing focus: smallholder cooperative-grown coffees from Peru and Colombia, for which they pay a premium above the Fairtrade minimum price. All packaging is plastic-free and compostable, a position the company has taken against what they describe as deliberate inertia from larger pod brands. The name references the Abyssinian Blue-Winged Goose, a rare bird native to Ethiopia, the country associated with the origin of coffee.