Standout Coffee was founded on a simple idea: the world produces far fewer extraordinary coffees than most people realise. Its founders, Oskar Garberg and Alexander Ruas, are both Swedish and Nordic Barista Champions. Oskar has also competed at the World Barista Championship, and Alexander is a Swedish Brewers Cup champion. Every year the team tastes thousands of coffees in search of the few that stand apart, and it sees its role as selecting coffee as much as roasting it.

Over the past decade Standout has built relationships with producers in Panama, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Kenya and beyond, which give it access to coffees rarely found outside competitions, private collections and the countries that grow them. It serves customers in more than 90 countries, supplies cafés, restaurants, offices and hotels, and coaches competitors. Champions it has sourced, roasted and coached for include Agnieszka Rojewska of Poland, World Coffee in Good Spirits champion, and the barista champions Ian Kissick and Dan Fellows of the United Kingdom, Jarno Peräkylä of Finland, and Alexander Monsen and Erlend Wessel-Berg of Norway. In 2024 Standout was named Best Nordic Roaster at the Nordic Coffee Festival.

The showroom and coffee bar in Frihamnen is the original home of Standout, where the team serves espressos, V60s and rare competition-style coffees and guides visitors through the selection. The second bar is inside Singular Society’s flagship store in Östermalm, serving cappuccinos, espressos, hand-brewed pour-overs and rare competition lots.

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