Opening a roastery in the southeast of England was always the dream for PHARMACIE founder & creative director Rick Curtis, once a regular at Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Portland, Oregon, where he avidly watched Duane Sorensen roast inside this legendary coffee house.

The name PHARMACIE was inspired by a ‘drugs’ sign that Stumptown hung inside their shop and from a 1970s French sign Rick had bought and kept behind his couch for years. Add the balanced scales to the logo and the PHARMACIE brand proudly exhibits the fact that coffee is an excellent drug, controlled by precise weights and measures, whilst the roasting and resulting brew is a fine balancing act of coffee fruit flavours.