Specialty coffee in Berlin, roasted in Friedrichshain.
If you are looking for specialty coffee in Berlin, this is how we work. At Boxhagener Straße 82 in Berlin-Friedrichshain, we roast whole-bean coffee for espresso and filter and serve it in our roastery café. Here is how a coffee gets from a green sample to your cup.
Six coffees from Colombia.
All six of our coffees come from Colombia. Five are grown by Café Granja La Esperanza in Valle del Cauca: Java, Pacamara, Mandela, La Esperanza and Geisha. Mandela is a variety the producer bred itself. Decaf Colombia is sourced separately. We work with green coffee importers who have personal connections to producers, so every coffee can be traced to its farm.
Tested before we buy.
New green coffees reach us as samples. We roast them on our sample roasters, an IKAWA PRO100 and a PROBAT sample roaster, and cup them before we decide which coffees to buy. Before a coffee goes into the roaster, we check its moisture content, water activity, density, screen size and defects.
Roasted and tasted, batch by batch.
We roast on a PROBAT Probatone 12, gently, to bring out the subtle nuances of each coffee. Roasting software records the temperature curve of every batch, and a colour meter measures how light or dark each roast is. Colour alone does not decide taste, so we cup every roast as well. For formal assessments, we use the Specialty Coffee Association’s Coffee Value Assessment.
Rested before it reaches you.
We pack each coffee within a day of roasting, in bags with a one-way valve. Every coffee then rests for at least seven days before we sell it or brew it in our cafés.
Where to taste it.
Our roastery café at Boxhagener Straße 82 and our café at Voigtstraße 35 are open every day from 8:00 to 18:00, for breakfast, brunch and our coffee. You can also order our coffees online, for delivery or for pickup at Boxhagener Straße 82.
Learn with us.
On the first Thursday of every month, we open the lab of our roastery for a cupping evening, from 18:30 to 19:45. In English, with 8 places, €35 per person. The first evening is on Thursday, 3 December 2026. Our roaster, Masih Mansouri, is a Licensed Q Instructor and Authorized SCA Trainer. At CEBE, he teaches SCA Coffee Skills Program courses and the SCA’s Q Grader Program.
