Swerl is a micro-roastery in Falkenberg, Sweden, “inspired by the art of great coffee and connection to one another”. Beatriz, a sommelier, and Daniel, who has a background as an aircraft technician, decided in 2018 to start a business together and found specialty coffee during a year in New Zealand. Swerl began in Falkenberg in 2019 as a mobile coffee bar in a converted 1972 Mercedes bus, stationed by the beach in summer and serving coffee from the Swedish roasters Koppi, Drop and Morgon. The winter of 2019 to 2020 was spent in Lisbon, where Beatriz is from, working at Buna and collaborating with Nomad Coffee.

In 2021 Swerl bought a second-hand 15 kg Giesen roaster, and in early 2022 it launched its own roastery, with branding by Andreas Pedersen. It moved into a larger roastery in 2023, added a colour sorter and closed its coffee shops that year to focus on roasting. Its home now is a former heating room of an old factory near the harbour in Falkenberg, close to the beach where the bus first stood, with a Probat roaster. In September 2026 Swerl hosted the Swedish AeroPress Championship at the roastery. The team is Beatriz, Daniel, Gisela Subirats and Robert Taranto.

Swerl’s sourcing rests on seasonality and relationships. Coffees are released to coincide with when they first reach the market, and bought, ideally, from people it knows: the Barreto family in Brazil, a direct trade partner; the importer Semilla, which helps build producer-run collectives at origin; and single producers such as Jhon Jairo in Colombia. Separate espresso and filter roasts are sold for several coffees, and the Odd Bean collection sells small leftover batches from each week’s roasting at a lower price as part of a no-waste approach.

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Photograph: Swerl Coffee Roasters