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The base of the Company Santos & Knafla, founded as a Portuguese-German Cooperation, is a former roastery of traditional Portuguese Coffee.
We had the great opportunity to take over the well maintained roasting facilities as well as some “ancient” machinery, where coffee was roasted over an open wood fire. This is a kind of museum and gives you an idea about what coffee roasting was like in former days.
So we are happy with our gas fired drum roaster and the conditions in the actual roasting facility.
In Santos & Knafla we agreed to keep up the old tradition of slow and careful roasting in drum roaster. Compared to industrial roasting with high amounts of beans roasted in a few minutes we take our time! The roasting takes about 20 minutes and our roast master is roasting coffee for 42 years. He is a real expert, checking the roasting grade every few moments prior to the end of the roasting. The smell, the “cracking” sound of the beans and his knowledge of the origins of the beans enables him to perform a perfect roast on the individual blends.
With such opportunities, we decided to get involved in the fantastic world of coffee roasting. All of us love the smell of freshly grinded coffee. To find out what possibilities are offered from unspecificly smelling raw beans of different origins and the combination of their specific properties – developing to a magnificent coffee in an individual roasting session.