I also love traveling and feel truly happy when I’m sightseeing and discovering new places.

On the other hand, I really appreciate the simple things in life, like watching my favorite K-drama ;)

But my personal project, Supermarket, a huge and detailed drawing, holds a special place in my heart.

Coffee gives me the energy to get through my to-do list and can be very inspiring.

I also appreciate my little coffee breaks all alone.

They’re like mini moments of calm where I can reset, reflect, and sometimes come up with my best ideas.

There are so many amazing restaurants and cafes in every corner.

There’s also a new Museum of Modern Art in the city center, right next to the Palace of Culture and Science.

The building sparked quite a bit of controversy in Poland, but I think it has the potential to become one of the most interesting modern art museums in the future.

Besides that, I really like the area by the river, perfect for a walk.

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We met back in 2015 when we both worked for Workshop Coffee in London.

Dan was working as Head Roaster in the production department and Zarahwas Front House Manager of their Clerkenwell Cafe.

So it's fair to say coffee brought us together!

8 years (and a baby later!), our roastery is based in Oughterard - just outside Galway city on the west coast of Ireland.

We love this coffee for its blackberry and mandarin flavors.

You can expect a jammy and balanced cup with a morish dark chocolate finish.

I was in a band before I started Calendar and that didn’t go so well so I definitely wouldn’t be touring the world haha!

I would probably be working and obsessing over something else consumable…chocolate or beer perhaps?!

She’s the second illustrator we’ve worked with in 7 years.

Every time I travel, I am always so happy to come home and roast coffee here.

It’s an inspiring city to be part of, it has everything from amazing food to culture, and community.

We have loads of festivals here throughout the year, from arts to comedy, oysters, and literature.

There’s a bit of everything for everyone!

That’s the daily grind!

My brain is frazzled and I would sleep on a sack of coffee if I could!"

My partner Kalliopé had her coffee shop here and we both knew that we wanted to start a roasting business so we started working on that.

Kalli and her business partner Alex know how to run a business and I was already 9 years in specialty coffee, mostly as a barista.

I felt the urge to start my own business, and get back to roasting and sourcing and coffee training.

We started thinking about our business values, working on the brand, website and coffee and we finally launched our first coffee last April.

The core idea was to have something of our own and to start working on the few close relationships with producers and importers we knew personally.

We started looking for a space in Brno and after almost a year we found one.

We’re currently finishing the small espresso bar area and there’s a bigger room in the back where production, QC and courses will take place eventually.

We don’t have our own roaster yet, as we didn’t want to take a bank loan for that in these unstable times.

But we’re slowly and steadily getting there.

There’s no investor behind us so we save pennies from what we sell to customers and coffee shops.

We currently roast our coffees in Prague at our friend’s production space at Grounds.

We’re very grateful for the support we have within the coffee community (mostly abroad).

In Czech Republic, we were exposed to big specialty coffee names right from the early days (Square Mile, Has Bean, Drop, Barn, Bonanza).

So many coffee shops here were working with these well-known companies that Czech roasters had to work hard to keep up.

That helped to push the quality of specialty roasting here big time.

Without that exposure, specialty coffee wouldn’t be so popular in the region.

Meaning that coffee itself is not a joke to us, but we still like to be witty.

Adding a Joker card into the bag with a short coffee riddle seemed like a nice surprise we wanted to have.

We have a lot of parks and public green areas here.

From March to August, the city is packed with concerts, outdoor theater plays and coffee shop\bar life is ubiquitous.

The specialty coffee scene here is staggering.

Whether it’s a long walk in Luzanecky park, a coffee shop tour, visiting the Spilberk castle, attending a theater play, having a cocktail in a NYC style bar or leaving Brno to see the surrounding forests and hills, you’ll be a happy tourist here.