The best coffee you've ever made at home. Tomorrow morning. With the machine you already own.
Specialty coffee from farmers we know by name, roasted in small batches in Ljubljana. Pick any three bags and pay for two — so the first experiment is on us.
Your coffee doesn't taste bitter because coffee is bitter.
It tastes bitter because of what happened to it long before it reached your kitchen. Most of us have only ever had coffee that went through the same four steps:
Beans from hundreds of farms go into one sack.
The good lots and the bad lots get mixed, and nobody can tell you who grew them.
They get roasted dark to hide it.
A dark roast makes everything taste the same, which is the point. Defects disappear — and so do the fruit and sweetness.
Then they sit on a shelf for months.
Coffee is a fresh product. The aromas you're paying for fade a little every week.
So you add sugar and milk to cover it.
And you think that's just what coffee is.
Capsules don't fix it. “Premium” labels don't fix it. A more expensive machine doesn't fix it either — a great machine just makes old, burnt coffee more precisely.
The Short Chain: four pairs of hands between the farm and your cup.
Not hundreds of farms in one sack. Not a factory roaster. Every bag we sell can be traced back to a specific farm, a specific roast, and the person who packed it.
People with names
Nestor Lasso in Colombia. Fabiano Pires Machado and Maria Soraia Guimarães in Brazil. Tesfaye Bekele from Ethiopia. Small lots, kept separate.
Friends on the ground
Our friend Rok Fabjan, a fellow Slovenian, sources coffee in Brazil's Caparaó National Park. Some lots, like Entre Nos, we develop together with the farmer.
Dušan, the roaster
Our Head Roaster roasts every coffee himself in Ljubljana. Light enough to keep the fruit and complexity, developed enough to stay sweet in milk.
Sara, bag by bag
Sara packs every order by hand. Then it goes straight to you. Coffee is shipped in 1-3 days from your order. Because we want you to enjoy it as quickly as possible!
You'll taste things you didn't know coffee could do.
Sweet without sugar
Caramel, milk chocolate, ripe fruit — from the bean itself. Most people drop the sugar within a week.
Smooth with milk
Our espresso coffees are roasted to stay creamy and sweet in a cappuccino, not to cut through it with bitterness.
Aroma you grind yourself
Coffee keeps its aroma inside the bean. Grind just before brewing and your cup will taste like it did on our cupping table.
A recipe on every page
Every coffee comes with Dušan's brew guide, so your first cup is dialled in, not guessed.
A story you can tell
Which variety, who grew it, at what altitude, how it was processed. Coffee becomes the thing guests ask about.
Cheaper than the café
Brewing coffee at home is cheaper and you control the coffee. Exceptional coffees at a fraction of the café price.
The coffee that converts the sceptics.
Brazil Caramelo Caparaó has turned more people from supermarket coffee to specialty than anything else we roast. Here's what people say after their first bag:
“Got it as a gift from my girlfriend. I'm hooked to the smooth chocolate caramel flavor in my cappucino.”
“I never thought coffee can taste like this ... it's like that jasmin tea served in a Japanese restaurant, but on a totally different level!”
“Wow.”
Every coffee is poured daily at Kavarna Specialka.
Our café at Center Rog in Ljubljana is where each roast proves itself before it reaches the shop. If it doesn't work in a cappuccino at 8 a.m. on a Monday, it doesn't go in a bag.
Here are the three bags we'd send you.
Pick the box that sounds like your morning. Or build your own — any three bags, the cheapest one is free.
Milk & Moka
Chocolate, caramel, creamy. For cappuccinos, moka pots and anyone leaving supermarket coffee behind.
Bright & Fruity
Blackcurrant, citrus, jasmine, red fruit. For V60, AeroPress and anyone who wants to be surprised.
The Experiments
Carbonic maceration, double anaerobic, co-developed lots. Coffees that taste like nothing you've had.
Buy two bags. The third one is on us.
Because the hardest part is the first cup. Once you've tasted the difference, you don't go back — and we'd rather earn your next order than ask for it.
Small lots don't wait. Single-farm coffees are harvested once a year and run out. Some of our micro lots are already running out for this season. But new coffees are already here!
Still deciding?
I don't have a grinder. Can I still order?
Yes. Choose your brewing method on the product page and we'll grind it for you. But if you can, grind just before brewing: ground coffee loses its aroma within days, and a simple burr grinder makes a bigger difference to your cup than a new machine.
I drink it with milk. Is specialty coffee too sour for me?
Start with Brazil Caramelo Caparaó or Good Vibrations Seasonal Blend. Both are chocolatey, caramel-sweet and built for milk drinks.
How does the free bag work?
Add any three bags from our specialty coffee range to your cart and use code FREECOFFEE at checkout. The buttons on this page apply it for you automatically. The lowest-priced bag is free.
How fresh is it?
We roast every Monday and Tuesday, and the coffee is shipped out 1-3 days after you complete the order.
What does shipping cost?
Shipping is FREE in Slovenia from 50 € and across the EU from 99 €. Outside the EU, customs duties aren't included in our prices.
Can I get this every month?
Yes. Several coffees are available as a subscription — delivered to you on a schedule you decide. Or go for our curated BRIGHT (for filter lovers) and BOLD (for espresso lovers) subscriptions. Try your three bags first, then decide.
Tomorrow's coffee can be the best one you've had.
Three bags. Pay for two. Freshly roasted and on its way.
P.S. The short version: any three bags, the third is free with code FREECOFFEE. If you're not sure which to pick, take the Milk & Moka box — it's the one that has converted the most sceptics. The only cost of waiting is another month of coffee you add sugar to. — Dušan, Head Roaster