
5 Major Coffee Roasting Machine Brands in Specialty Coffee
Roasting coffee isn’t easy. It’s a physical & mental challenge that only the very dedicated excel at. What looks like a fiery lumbering method of creating coffee is actually a...
'YE GENET'
Origin: Ethiopia
Roast Type: Omni
Process: Natural
Region: Guji
Variety: Mixed Heirloom
Altitude: 1950-2250m
Bogdan Georgescu went from being your average IT guy to becoming World Roasting Vice-Champion. Now he is the man in charge of Mabo’s roasting: responsible for developing the roasting profiles. With his extreme level of perfectionism he tests each and every single batch of coffee with many roasting profiles until he finds the best possible roast for that coffee and the results are amazing.
'KAGANDA'
Origin: Kenya
Roast Type: Filter
Process: Washed
Region: Kiharu
Variety: SL28 & SL34
Altitude: 1800 m
The tale of Fuglen Coffee Roaster is a story of exploration, a tale that began with a tiny coffee bar that opened in Oslo in the ‘60s, and slowly evolved into a specialty coffee roaster with coffee shops as far away as Tokyo. It was actually the Tokyo branch where we first tried their coffee so it’s very exciting to now be working with the fantastic team in Oslo as well.
'STRATO BERRY'
Origin: Uganda
Roast Type: Omni
Process: Natural
Region: Elgon Mountain
Variety: SL28, SL34 & Catimor
Altitude: 1700m
Roast Club is the dream of Iker Zago, born from the good (and bad) experiences that have professionally trained him. Still young, Iker already has a long career in coffee which brought him from Italy to Australia, London and Costa Rica. He would finally settle in Barcelona and now just six years later, with a pandemic in between, Roast Club is a striving business with two locations in town: a roastery and a café.
'KAWANZA'
Origin: Tanzania
Roast Type: Omni
Process: Natural
Region: Mbeya
Variety: Bourbon&Kent
Altitude: 1650m
Obadiah Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roaster founded by Sam and Alice Young. Its story began far away in time and in space. Sam grew up in Perth, Australia, and his love of specialty coffee dates back to his time working at 5 Senses, a cool specialty coffee roaster in Melbourne. Then with his partner Alice, they made the decision to move back to Scotland to open their own coffee roastery.