Founded nearly 20 years ago, Hasbean is one of the “classic” specialty coffee roasters in the UK. Under the leadership of 2017 World Barista Champion Dale Harris, Hasbean has been (pun intended!), like so many world-class roasters, competing, winning and building on these successes consistently. They even recently reinvented their packaging design going for a clever colour scheme to categorise their coffees and is taking Hasbean in an exciting new direction!

The idea of Casino Mocca was born in 2013, when founders Lajos, Szabolcs and Zoltán – all three participants in barista competitions – felt a lack of roasters who are competent, consistent and are willing to be progressive & experimental locally. They became the first and only specialty roaster in Hungary and have been meticulously polishing their quality and pushing the Hungarian specialty coffee scene to the next level!

Manhattan Coffee Roasters was created by the coffee champions Esther Maasdam and Ben Morrow. “Coffee, people, ambition. This is what makes us thrive for unparalleled flavour” and this is what it’s all about at Manhattan, sharing with the whole world a selection of competition coffees, focusing on mind blowing and exceptional beans, unique and small lots born from close cooperation with producers.

The many different lives of Audun Sørbotten: he is a biochemist, he worked at Solberg & Hansen for 8 years in his homeland Norway and won the Nordic Roaster Competition in both 2011 and 2012, then moved to Poland. 2014 was the year when finally Audun opened his own roastery in Bydgoszcz and it took him just one year to become the winner of the World Coffee Roasting Championship in 2015!