Elephant Beans

Elephant Beans runs a roastery-cafe on Basler Strasse in Freiburg and a second roasting site in March-Buchheim that doubles as a coffee school, offering barista training and latte-art workshops alongside its retail roasting. The company describes sourcing coffee 'directly from the coffee farmers with whom we've been connected in friendship for years,' though it doesn't name specific farms on its homepage. Its current single-origin list includes a CO2-decaffeinated Cosurca from Colombia, an organic-certified Rutas del Inca from Peru, an Ethiopian Wildkaffee, and a fermented specialty it calls Monsooned Malabar Pepper, described on the site as a rarity. The Basler Strasse cafe seats up to ten guests indoors, expanding to a garden with room for twelve more between March and October. A newer webshop subscription model takes a permanent 7% off recurring orders. Between the direct-trade sourcing language, named single-origin lots spanning three continents, and a dedicated coffee school running its own workshop calendar, Elephant Beans positions itself as much around education as around the coffee it sells at the counter.