Vits is a roastery in the heart of Munich, and its café on the edge of the Altstadt pours the coffee it roasts. The bar makes espresso drinks, flat whites and pour-over, with an espresso of the week on the grinder, iced drinks such as Japanese iced coffee and espresso tonic when the weather allows, and a short lunch menu that changes every day. Beans are sold at the café as well.

The coffee is roasted to five profiles. The light filter roast, nine to ten and a half minutes long, and a light espresso roast of nine to twelve minutes are kept for the specialty lots and bring out their fruit. The omni roast, ten to twelve minutes, was developed for fruity single origins and suits espresso as well as filter. The medium roast, the house standard, runs 14 to 16 minutes to just past first crack, and the dark roast runs 17 to 19 minutes, close to second crack, for body and low acidity. Alongside the single origins Vits roasts a set of numbered house blends.

Its importers include Trabocca and Omwani for Ethiopian and East African lots and Raw Material for coffees from Burundi, and it has bought micro-lots from Germán Carranza’s farm in El Palto, in the Amazonas region of Peru, for several years. For its Kenyan coffee from the Kedovo project in Nyeri, part of the price of every kilo of green coffee goes to Kedovo e.V.

The roastery also teaches. Four course modules cover espresso, latte art, brewing and sensory skills, booked singly or together, in small groups.

Coffee on the shelf

BrazilBrasil Lagoa, product image from the roaster
  • Angenehm süß mit einem vollem Körper und harmonischer Säure
  • Leicht nussig mit schokoladigen Noten
Vits Coffee

Brasil Lagoa

Natural
Munich
Costa RicaCosta Rica Tarrazu, product image from the roaster
  • Feine Säure und weicher, samtiger Körper, sehr saubere Tasse
  • Haselnussig mit Noten von Kakao und Karamell
Vits Coffee

Costa Rica Tarrazu

Out of stock
Washed
Munich

Photograph: Vits Coffee