Helsingborg · Sweden

Koppi

Koppi roasts in Helsingborg, Skåne County.

Since 2007 · Anne Lunell, Charles Nystrand

Overview

Koppi was founded in fall 2007 in Helsingborg by Anne Lunell and Charles Nystrand — childhood friends turned husband-and-wife, and back-to-back Swedish Barista Champions (Charles 2005, Anne 2006). Both apprenticed in Oslo at Java alongside Robert W. Thoresen, the 2000 World Barista Champion behind Kaffa, before opening their original Helsingborg cafe-and-roastery on Norra Storgatan; in 2017 they closed the cafe to focus solely on roasting from a 2,000-square-foot industrial space, and today export roughly 90% of their coffee.

Known for

Pioneer of Swedish specialty coffee and Nordic light roasting
Swedish Barista Champions as both founders + 2016 Swedish Brewer's Cup
Long-term producer relationships in Costa Rica and Colombia
90% export ratio
Light, sweet, fruity profile with minimised bitterness

Why it matters

Despite operating from a small Swedish coastal city of 125,000, Koppi is one of the most internationally cited Nordic-light roasters of the past two decades — a destination roastery with no cafe whose coffees regularly anchor specialty subscription boxes around the world.

Production

head roaster: Charles Nystrand
roaster machine: Diedrich IR-12
roastery location: Helsingborg, Sweden (dedicated 2,000 sq ft former industrial space, since 2016)

Recognitions

Swedish Barista Champion (Charles Nystrand 2005)
Swedish Barista Champion (Anne Lunell 2006)
Swedish Brewer's Cup champion (Anne Lunell 2016)

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