1000 Cups is a family-run specialty roaster based in Madrid. It has been roasting for more than fifteen years and wants its coffee to reach the whole of Spain and Europe’s main cities. Its values are traceability, the love of roasting and urban culture.

The roastery is an industrial unit in Algete, in the Community of Madrid. The coffee is roasted there and checked at the cupping tables, and the roastery is also where 1000 Cups holds its main events. The café, 1000 Cups Specialty Coffee, is in Madrid and serves specialty coffee and brunch from a varied menu, with the house coffees in the grinders for espresso, milk drinks and filter.

The academy runs beginner workshops in espresso, filter brewing and latte art, a cupping session with the roaster and a professional roasting course taught by Nikolai Fürst. There is a coffee subscription. Professional clients such as cafés, restaurants, offices and hotels get trade prices on coffee, preferential terms on machinery and early access to new releases, and the shop also sells espresso machines from Fiamma and Ascaso.

Each coffee comes with its region, farm or producer, variety, process, altitude and tasting notes, several with a cupping score, and the bags are sold whole bean or ground for V60, French press and cold brew, or moka and espresso.

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Photograph: 1000 Cups