It was a time when specialty coffee was just starting to take off in Poland.

Targowa has become quite popular since then :)

In 2016, I won the World Aeropress Championship.

That same year, I visited coffee farms in Colombia, which was an eye-opening and hugely inspiring experience.

After returning, I decided to open a roastery, Figa Coffee.

Since then, we have become one of the best roasters in Poland.

We like light roasts.

We like to keep things simple.

We value people.

I read books and spoke to roaster friends, sending them my roast profiles and coffees to taste.

A huge influence and source of inspiration was Audun Sørbotten, who helped me a lot—even though he may not have been aware of it.

Trips to Oslo also helped.

We measure color, do cuppings, and log everything in Cropster.

The place was called Eeklo I believe - nice chips :) Tom Boonen was the man back then."

The focus was on handbrew coffee (Petra became 3 times Czech Brewers Cup champion and 2 times World Brewers Cup finalist) and brunches.

In 2021, it was time to take a step further and, together with Milan, Industra Coffee roasted their first batch.

Packing and labeling are also done manually.

We’ve noticed that decaf coffees taste better than they used to and the decaffeination is less and less recognizable in terms of flavour.

It is also possible to find decaffeinated coffees from more origins than before and we are happy about that!

A food hub and space where many different vendors and projects are sharing the craft of all things food and beverage.

It was an obvious choice to create the coffee roastery to share the world of coffee in this environment.

Philipp, who has worked in the industry for 10 years back then, it came as a logical next step to understand coffee even better and create a roastery that wants to be part of changing the trade and perception of coffee in Berlin and beyond.

He also founded Isla Coffee Berlin in the same year as the roastery and kept on creating new projects like Coffee Week Berlin and the co-roastery Communal Coffee.

Always excited to share the excitement of coffee with consumers and professionals alike with new ideas and projects.

We have created lots of spreadsheets that we kept adjusting or recreated in better ways.

To help us track our progress and our general numbers of the business, including planning and controlling tools.

A big part of our everyday production is Cropster in combination with our Shopify webshop.

Which we use for b2c and b2b orders.

Cities often feel very grey and sterile.

The amount of street art and murals is adding a lot to the feel of Berlin.

Of course, there are a lot of ugly ones out there too, but we are more often excited by street art and are thankful for many inspirational messages or quotes that are shared through beautiful street art.

It reaches a really diverse crowd that we probably wouldn’t be able to share our roasts with in the first place.

The internet and the multitude of channels can be overwhelming.

Teaming up with someone like ‘I know Jerry from Toronto’ makes us feel proud, given that subscriptions are always curated.

Knowing that we created some spark and excitement for the organisers to share our roasts makes us feel proud.

For quite some years now, we have seen a huge increase in interest in Decaf.

So often, we have also found a decaf on our cupping table that blew us away and made us put it in our portfolio, not because it’s decaf but because it’s delicious.

We love exploring new decafs regularly and are always adding more origins and farmers to our portfolio.

The way it literally connects worldwide is still always mindblowing to us.

Not only because of the vast amount of flavours it brings, but also the stories that come along with it.

From farmers to roasters to Baristas and to people's homes.

Those moments, to share a cup of coffee with someone, are always magical :)"