There’s nothing like being thrown in the deep end to test a person’s strength and resilience.
For Espressology Head Roaster Simon Cunliffe-Jones, that moment came on a trip to Cambodia when he and his wife Zoe connected with an Australian couple running a café and roastery in the riverside town of Kampot. Simon struck up friendship with Angus, one of the owners, and started selling his coffee to local cafés in the town of Siem Reap where he and Zoe were living.
What he didn’t expect however, was to be asked to run the café and roastery while the owners returned to Australia to visit family.
“While I loved making coffee and was interested in roasting, I had no roasting experience,” Simon says. “But I was optimistic. I thought, ‘it can’t be that hard, can
