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Coffee Stories

Carmela Maresca Coffee Stories

Carmela Maresca

Carmela Maresca, apart from working at Cinque Sensi bar, is also a trainer at The Latte Art Grading System and Vice President of Maestri Dell Espresso. She currently lives in Pozzuoli, in the province of Naples, Italy.  Apart from working at Cinque Sensi bar, Carmela Maresca is also a trainer at…
Anna Shuayre
February 19, 2021
Binny Varghese Coffee Stories

Binny Varghese

Some people are coffee lovers, coffee connoisseurs, or coffee nerds; Binny Varghese is a coffee warrior. He’s known as “the barista on a bike” throughout India because in 2017, he convinced his then boss to let him tour the country on his motorcycle in order to visit every café on…
Tigger Chaturabul
February 18, 2021
Jesse Hartman Coffee Stories

Jesse Hartman

Jesse Hartman is a triumphant ambassador for the global coffee industry. Perhaps known more typically for his voice, Jesse’s recent notoriety is as host of  The Coffee Podcast, a fantastic series offering thought provoking conversations with a wide variety of industry professionals. Wanting the podcast to maintained focussed, Jesse pertains…
Louisa Campbell
February 16, 2021
Tim Rogg Coffee Stories

Tim Rogg

 How do you turn a big concept like specialty coffee into content that’s educational, digestible, and entertaining at the same time? Tim Rogg, co-founder and the ‘brawn’ behind The Right Roast, has spent the last decade doing just that. Along with his wife Aiko, who makes up the ‘brain’ behind…
Tigger Chaturabul 
February 12, 2021
Aylin Ölcer Coffee Stories

Aylin Ölcer

She fell in love with her city’s coffee scene. In three years, Aylin Ölcer became the German national barista champion.Aylin’s journey into coffee can be described as sweet serendipity. Fresh out of university in 2016 with a business degree, the Bonn native packed her bags and moved to Berlin to…
Zed Wong
February 8, 2021
Daniel Tessier Coffee Stories

Daniel Tessier

“What I mostly enjoy about working with coffee is that I get to meet interesting, dedicated and working people. I also love the local coffee shop community that naturally (and historically) forms in every big city around the world.” Daniel and his father “My father and I opened Oro Maya…
Anna Shuayre
February 3, 2021
Mbonisi Bamala Coffee Stories

Mbonisi Bamala

Not so long ago Mbonisi Bamala was ignorant to the joy of coffee and clueless of the monumental part it would grow to play in his life. Based in South Africa with Zimbabwean roots, coffee for Mbonisi was a distant phenomenon and a traditionally luxury commodity; the limited experience he…
Louisa Campbell
January 28, 2021
Martin Oracion Jr Coffee Stories

Martin Oracion Jr

Martin Oracion describes himself as a simple guy who loves playing console games, listens to a lot of music, and is a motorcycle enthusiast as well. Martin Oracion Jr Born in the Philippines and now living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Martin started working as a computer mobile tech and salesman,…
Anna Shuayre
January 26, 2021
Ali Hasnain Coffee Stories

Ali Hasnain

My name is Ali Hasnain, and this is my coffee story. “Since childhood, all I knew was ‘be an engineer’; ‘be a doctor’. Those were the only acceptable paths set out for us. To this day, my father doesn’t know what Coffee truly is. Everyone is still stuck on tea.” Growing up…
Talia Goury
January 20, 2021
Andrea Ley Coffee Stories

Andrea Ley

“Coffee is life, coffee is love, my happiness, everyday” Andrea Ley is a truly inspiring woman and today we’d like to share her story with you, so you can be inspired too. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Andrea moved to Texas in 2010 and used to work as a software engineer…
Vasileia Fanarioti
January 13, 2021