Schot Coffee Roasters roasts and pours in the Diepeveen building, a Rotterdam landmark built in 1929 for the trading company Diepeveen & Co. to a cubist expressionist design by W. Kromhout Czn. It was a hardware warehouse with a staff residence, and its 30-metre tower served as an advertising column. The roastery occupies the former warehouse, which has also been a tannery and a youth disco. Atelier Thomas Dirrix redeveloped it in 2022 and kept its raw, industrial look, and the building now houses potters, designers, a bookshop, the Huidenclub gallery and a wood workshop.

Schot buys from farmers and trusted suppliers, building long-term relationships and paying a premium so that farmers can invest in their plantations. None of its coffees are certified. It roasts every week in small batches on a Giesen W15: twelve kilos for espresso, six for filter and four for its competition coffees. The roasts are light. Where a coffee has a filter and an espresso option the two profiles differ, and the others are omni roasts. The focus is on washed, honey and natural coffees, with a few anaerobic lots and no co-fermented or infused ones. Brazil Dulce and a washed Ethiopia stay on the list all year, and most other coffees are seasonal microlots from small producers that come back each year.

The bar is about the coffee, with a short list of lunch items, cakes and pastries. It serves two espressos, batch brew and hand brews, and most coffees in stock can be ordered there, up to the competition range. There is seating indoors and a large terrace. Schot has hosted cuppings and brewing workshops at the bar, and it also sells its coffee at the Rotterdamse Oogst market on the Noordplein.

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Coffee on the shelf

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