Koun Coffee was founded by Dominik Bruno Pausch, who brings more than two decades in hospitality to a modern specialty coffee business. Its roasts made Koun the Austrian vice roasting champion in 2023, and Falstaff placed it among the top three roasteries in Vienna in 2025. Koun trades directly with farmers it visits, at fair prices and through personal relationships. Dominik travels to origin: he was in Colombia at harvest time, in the Popayán region, where the washed Caturra and Castillo for Koun’s Colombian espresso is grown by smallholders and processed through Cofinet.

The range is short and labelled by use, with espresso roasts from Brazil, Colombia and Peru, filter roasts from Ethiopia and Colombia, and a sugar cane decaf from Huila. The Brazilian espresso, a pulped natural from the Andrade family’s Fazenda São Silvestre, is the café’s daily grind. Among the filter coffees are a black honey from Lalesa in Ethiopia, a washed Pink Bourbon from Diofanor Ruiz in Quindío and a watermelon co-ferment from Jairo Arcila.

The Koun Coffee Shop in Wieden, near Karlsplatz, is a place for tastings, advice on espresso and filter, unusual drinks and freshly baked cornetti, and it sells the roasts in the shop, limited editions included. Koun also roasts for hotels, cafés, restaurants and offices, including white-label coffee.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Koun Coffee