Prime homemade coffee now available in Polokwane

POLOWANE – Bayhound Coffee – a coffee smell so tantalising that, even if you weren’t a coffee fan, you would want a cup immediately.

Pieter le Roux has always been a huge fan of coffee and travelled across the country to taste different coffees at different coffee shops.

He saw a market niche in the city and about three months ago decided to start his own business, Bayhound Coffee  – a name was inspired by his beautiful Greyhound dog.

“I wanted to increase the coffee culture in Polokwane because there is no authentic coffee shops here,” explains Pieter.

Bayhound Coffee

Bayhound Coffee offers two types of roasts, Caliente which includes a selection of beans from South America and a Guatemala Roast which is either roasted medium or dark.

The beans are sourced from a company in Johannesburg which imports the beans directly from farms in South America.

“This is where the ‘single origin’ tag comes from,” explains Pieter. “As the coffee beans are sourced from community farms, it means there are no chemicals and it isn’t industrialised so the customer is guaranteed 100% good quality coffee.”

Pieter has his own coffee roaster and roasts from home. He gets the green coffee beans in a Hessian bag as they have to remain dry and away from moisture. In the roaster lies a big drum in which he puts the beans.

The drum then turns roasting the beans evenly and consistently which gives them their colour and flavour as well as body, which Pieter says is very important.

“For medium roasts, I set the temperature to around 220 to 230 degrees C and for a darker roast the temperature sits at more than 250 degrees C.”

Once the beans have roasted for about 20 to 25 minutes he cools them down by setting them over a large fan. He then begins the “breathing phase”.

“Coffee has to stand for three to seven days after being roasted so it can emit gasses and breathe, this in turn increases the flavour of the bean,” he reveals.

What makes Pieter’s coffee unique is not that it is unlike store bought coffees roasted at home, but the fact that his packaging includes a “roast date” so the custumer is able to see when the coffee was roasted and how fresh it is. His plans include to source coffee from every region in the world to have a variety of premium roasted coffees available.He is also keen on venturing out into teas.

Contact him

Pieter is on Facebook under Bayhound Coffee Works where his details are available and you can place orders on the page.