JB Kaffee is the Kaffee-Rösterei Johannes Bayer in Sulzemoos, founded in 2010. It focuses on long-term, fair relationships with its producers and importers and pays fair prices for good quality.

Johannes Bayer roasts by hand in a drum roaster, in small batches, and develops and logs every profile individually. Coffee is packed and sent within 48 hours of roasting, with the roast date on every bag.

Most coffees come in more than one roast: one for filter, one for espresso and, for the Samambaia from Brazil’s Cerrado Mineiro, one for fully automatic machines. The range leans on East Africa, with naturals from Sidama such as Chilaka and Shantawene, washed Buncho from Bensa, and Kenyan lots from Nyeri and Kiambu, alongside coffees from Guatemala and Colombia, a Mountain Water decaf from Uganda and FUNKYLICIOUS, an espresso blend of Ethiopian and Kenyan coffees.

In Munich, Johannes Bayer roasts for Standl 20, the Elisabethmarkt stand he runs with Paul von Tettenborn, for the house espresso at sweet spot kaffee and for Coffee Twins.

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Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: JB Kaffee