Do you love funky, unusual, against the grain coffee? Do you like to be surprised by your cup of coffee? Only rare and unusual beans with exciting processing methods make it into our rockstar subscription.
Each month, our roasting team selects micro-lots that are roasted exclusively for our rockstar subscription and often don't even make it onto the shelf. Rockstar coffees are roasted exclusively for filter preparation.
If you want to try ultra-rare varieties, processing methods and particularly complex flavour profiles, the rockstar subscription is for you.
May | Cata Exports
May brought us two coffees from Colombia, courtesy of Cata Exports, who supplied us with a Geisha and a Sidra.
June | SURPRISE Ethiopian Varieties from Brazil June is going to be great: we are looking forward to two varieties from Santuario Sul, Brazil, and get a lot of Yirgacheffe (Ethiopian Heirlooom) and Sudan Rume in our cups this month. Definitely not to be missed!
July | Single Variety from Ethiopia Africa has not only the oldest, but also the richest coffee culture in the world, with millions of naturally occurring varieties presumed to grow in this beautiful country. Centuries of farming, generally on tiny farms with just a few coffee trees, means that lots from Ethiopia are often simply described as "heirloom". This month's coffees buck that trend: Tero farm is supplying us with two single variety coffees whose heritage we can trace precisely. August | The Best Washed of the Americas This edition is dedicated to washed coffees. We were able to secure two exciting washed coffees from Bolivia and Peru: A Geisha from Bolivia and a Yellow Bourbon from Peru. It will be truly super delicious!
September | Direct Trade Relationships Los Tres Potros in El Salvador is one of our longest-standing partners. For this rockstar edition, they're supplying us with two exciting lots that have both been anaerobically fermented: an SL28 and a Pacamara.
October | Terroir: Ethiopian Varieties from Central America and Ethiopia In October you'll learn all about terroir, which is the impact of a growing region on the flavour in the cup. These Ethiopian coffees have been grown in unusual regions to highlight this effect.
November | Sonora Geisha The Hacienda Sonora is not only our longest-standing partner, but also our most exciting. Anthony, our head roaster, visited the farm in June and discussed two new coffees with Diego Guardia, which he brought a few sacks-full of back to Berlin. You'll be enjoying to amazing Geisha with your rockstar subscription in November.
December | SURPRISE We are currently in talks with our partners to find two extraordinary lots for you. Stay tuned! It will be extraordinary!
Please note:
- This subscription is shipped around the middle of the month. The cut-off date is the 15th of each month at 11:59pm. Orders placed after the cut-off will be shipped the following month.
- The cut-off date may vary if there are public holidays in the middle of the month, as we try to send the coffee out earlier to beat the holidays.
- The minimum duration of this subscription is 3 months.
- For this subscription, we work with various farms that may not be long-term partners. This means we sometimes have to change plans at the last minute, should there be difficulties with the shipment. Thank you for your understanding – we promise we'll still get you an extraordinary coffee into your cup.
Grindsize
If you don't have a grinder at home, we'll be happy to grind the coffee to your specifications. Simply click on your preparation option above or order whole beans.
Find the right grind. You can get the most out of your coffee by grinding your beans just before brewing. Take a look at the equipment selection if you are interested in a grinder.
You can also select a grind level in each product if you want us to grind the beans for you. We use a Mahlkönig EK43 for this.
Frenchpress and Aeropress are ground on the same setting.
Cultivation
Grown with love by great farmers. 100% Arabica coffee, harvested when ripe and carefully processed. Sustainable and fairly traded.
Coffee is a fruit with many natural fruit acids. We roast our coffees to bring out these acids, but also to bring out the sweetness. When our roasters develop a flavour profile for a filter coffee, they make sure to use a slightly lower temperature. In our coffees, we bring out the natural flavour profile of each variety, but also of the terroir of Origin.