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Sign our petition to help save our business

Help stop the Peterborough Council from removing our Council approved covered seating. The Peterborough City Council are trying to force our cafe to remove its outside covered seating area by refusing to renew our license. This is the same space and structure that was designed and supplied by the council through the ongoing Cafe Culture project, which the council received £800,000 as part of the Growth Deal funding provided by the government to help stimulate economic growth and create new jobs. The Bean Around family did everything that was asked of them by the council and indeed built their business around this joint venture with the council and now the council want it removed. The Bean Around has submitted many...

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Free coffee samples are here! Just pay for shipping

  Covid has closed our Coffee House so we're giving away coffee for free!? Get 3 espressos worth of our delicious micro-batch roasted coffee for free, just pay for shipping! No gimmicks, we lose money selling these! Our coffee is profiled to perfection, you will love it! Small batch roasted by hand so it's as fresh as it gets. Made from blends of Organic and Fairtrade beans. The rules: I ship these by hand, so limited availability. Maximum 3 packs per order (so up to 9 cups of coffee!). Shipped direct from my micro roaster in Peterborough. It is my hope that once you try our coffee you will love it as much as we do, and will be back...

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What is Micro Batch Coffee?

Imagine waking up to the freshest, richest, and most flavourful coffee beans you have ever had the luck of brewing up. Prefer dark roasts? Then imagine only the most illustrious, oil-coated ebony delights. What about light roasts? Then harder, more sturdy beans packed to the brim with their natural flavours await. Now for your chosen grinding technique. Perhaps you prefer the manual labour of hand grinding, and getting to enjoy the fruits of your labour in the form of the freshest cup of coffee money can buy.? Or perhaps it is the control and finesse of an electric grinder, ensuring you get the best extraction from the bean. Whatever your fancy, nothing beats a freshly roasted, freshly ground, and freshly...

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Win a £1000 espresso machine by Fracino - Competition

Competition time at the BE.AR.! It's no secret that we LOVE our Fracino coffee machines, so we've decided to offer you a chance to win an amazing Fracino Piccino Barista class Home Espresso Machine worth over £1000! You can enter as many times as you like (limited to 750 entries total). Learn more on how to enter the competition on the link below. Win a Fracino Piccino Coffee Machine.

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