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Juliya Drozdova Coffee Stories

Juliya Drozdova

Juliya Drozdova is making pour-over coffee Meet Juliya Drozdova, a barista trainer from Russia. Her adoration of coffee began in childhood when she often came to visit her grandfather. He would always make Juliya a hearty cup of coffee in a small rip coffee maker. They would talk about everything,…
Anna Suffolk
March 29, 2021
Oğulcan Torlak Coffee Stories

Oğulcan Torlak

Living in Turkey, Oğulcan Torlak has built up a prosperous career as a roaster- after hearing his thoughts on coffee, it is clear that this is the perfect profession for him. His first café job was where coffee turned from a regular drink to an obsession. Since then, Oğulcan has…
Vicky & Louisa
March 26, 2021
Gianmarco Ierardi Coffee Stories

Gianmarco Ierardi

Gianmarco Ierardi In a strange turn of events, it wasn’t until Gianmarco Ierardi travelled half-way across the globe to Melbourne that he discovered his true passion for coffee. Founder at Iteist, head barista, coffee trainer to Q Arabica grader Gianmarco has become a coffee pro. Along with his partner, Veronica…
Emilie
March 22, 2021
Fabiola Solano Coffee Stories

Fabiola Solano

Fabiola Solano hails from Costa Rica, a country that takes pride in their high-quality production of coffee beans. Coffee has been with her throughout her life. She was first introduced to coffee by her grandma, who in her own words, it would “taste like heaven”. “It was not high-quality coffee,…
Anna Suffolk
March 5, 2021
Alina Firsova Coffee Stories

Alina Firsova

Alina Firsova thrives to be the best barista she can be despite what people think of her. “In the end, I would like to say - share, do what you like - and ignore anyone if it really inspires you.” Meet Alina Firsova, the accomplished barista that believes in her…
Camille Lowe
March 2, 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
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
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
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
Paul Istrate Coffee Stories

Paul Istrate

Paul Istrate’s coffee story started in 2014 when he began working in the breakfast bar of a hotel in Brasov, Romania. A colleague asked him to take on the responsibility of making the bosses’ morning coffees. After getting the hang of it, he started to experiment with different styles of…
Chloe Lovatt
January 1, 2021