Ljubljana · Slovenia
Stow Specialty Coffee
Stow Specialty Coffee roasts in Ljubljana, Central Slovenia.
Since 2015 · Aleš Turšič, Peter Ševič
Overview
Stow was founded in 2015 by Aleš Turšič — owner and head roaster — together with Peter Ševič, an SCA-certified former pro cyclist who discovered specialty coffee at the 2006 London Coffee Festival after his cycling career ended in a crash. The roastery operates from the town of Kamnik with a flagship café set inside Ljubljana's City Museum at Gosposka 15, plus a Stow 2GO kiosk and the Stow Academy delivering SCA Coffee Diploma training. They roast roughly two tons a year for the cafés and a growing wholesale program, with explicit ambitions to be the leading specialty roaster across the wider Balkan region.
Known for
- Founded 2015 by Aleš Turšič (head roaster/owner) and Peter Ševič (SCA trainer, ex-pro cyclist)
- Roastery in Kamnik; flagship café inside Ljubljana's City Museum
- Roughly 2 tons of coffee roasted per year
- Operates the Stow Academy delivering SCA Coffee Diploma System training
- Plans to convert all coffee buying to direct-trade only
Why it matters
Slovenia's coffee culture had been almost entirely Italian-influenced espresso bars before Stow opened, and Turšič and Ševič essentially built the local specialty-coffee infrastructure — roastery, retail café, training academy, and SCA certification pipeline — from nothing. The Academy is the more important long-term investment: it's training the next generation of Slovenian baristas to international standards, which is what enables a specialty market to exist at all.
Production
- head roaster
- Aleš Turšič
- filter equipment
- V60, Chemex, Cold brew
- roastery location
- Kamnik, Slovenia
- espresso equipment
- La Marzocco
- annual volume tonnes
- 2
Café
Gosposka ulica 15, 1000 Ljubljana (inside City Museum of Ljubljana)