A mission to stir up UK coffee

New York 2018, Ross flew in from England for a work trip, ordering his coffee the way he always had - black, nothing added. Jaime, a native New Yorker, took hers a different way: with a flavoured creamer stirred through. They started talking about coffee before much else. And, one morning she handed him a cup made her way. He was converted! From then on, their mornings had a ritual…. good coffee, better creamer, together.

In 2020, they moved to the UK. Jaime did the first food shop. She made her way along the milk aisle twice, thinking she had just missed the creamer shelf - but no it wasn’t there! Ross later explained that coffee creamer as she knew it, simply didn’t exist here in the UK.

For most people that’s a shrug and a splash of milk, for Jaime and Ross it felt like a gap worth closing. So, they turned to family and together with David and Paula they transformed research into something real. They all tested, reformulated and obsessed over "project coffee creamer "until they had something worth putting their name to - a real creamer developed for UK tastes — not just an American import trading on the New York name.

Finally their work became “Brooklyn Halo”: Creamy Caramel, Velvety Vanilla — with more flavours on the way.. Every bottle is an answer to a food shopping trip that ended in disappointment but started their 6 year mission to stir-up UK coffee.

A small craving became a big ambition — to bring something genuinely new to UK coffee.