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April Coffee Roasters
Having worked for some of Europe’s leading coffee roasters, Swedish Patrik Rolf Karlsson has established his own roastery, April Coffee, in Copenhagen.
A new Copenhagen-based coffee roastery with the vision to progress the way we roast coffee Having spent the last six years working for some of Europe’s most prestigious coffee roasters, Patrik Rolf is today the owner of his own roastery. “The idea with April is to source, roast and offer some of the best coffee in the world. It’s a fully transparent business that pushes the boundaries of how you roast great coffee,” explains the 27-year-old. By Signe Hansen
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Patrik Rolf’s passion for coffee was ignited in his hometown of Gothenburg, where he worked behind the bar at the da Matteo café. After half a year, he moved to the roastery, where he learnt the ropes from one of Sweden’s best roasters. Over the following years, he moved around Europe, advancing to the roaster position of a well-established specialty coffee roastery in Berlin. In the German capital, he got to live out his roasting dreams fully, roasting up to two tonnes of coffee a week. He once roasted for 25 hours straight, just because, as he says, he could. Yet April Coffee is not about speed or scale. On the contrary: Patrik Rolf focuses on finding the very best beans for his coffee, growing long-term rela22 |
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When asked to explain April Coffee Roastery with one sentence, Patrik Rolf says: “It is all about exploring how we can make coffee taste better.”
June 2017
tionships with his suppliers and working with them to improve their product and quality of life. “April is a small-scale coffee roastery that focuses only on the best. The idea is not to be everywhere, but rather to have a few selected projects around the world with an understanding for quality working with our coffee,” says Patrik Rolf. While roasted whole beans are his main focus, Patrik Rolf has also recently started working with coffee capsules. “It’s been very interesting, and I’ve been getting some great results,” he says. “It’s a capsule that is compatible with Nespresso and Dualit Capsule machines and makes it very easy to enjoy a tasty espresso-style beverage.”
To find out more, please visit: www.aprilcoffeeroasters.com Contact information: patrikrolf@aprilcoffeeroastery.com Social media: @aprilcoffeecph and @patrikrolf