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Spells with coffee beans

With its mini-bar "coffee alchemy" of the Norwegian Arild Stubberud John brings a piece of world-wide to Salzburg.

Coffee Alchemy: John Arild Subberud in his kingdom.
The small room can think of a living room rather than at a coffeehouse. Those looking for the length, but find it on the walls: Roasted beans from Nicaragua and Ethiopia, Brazil and El Salvador are on the shelves - as mixtures or as a "single origins" (from a single farm) and "Single Regions" (from a region), packed in bags. And who is watching the barista at work, also recognizes why the shop is called "Coffee Alchemy". John Arild Stubberud werkt behind the counter calmly between espresso machines and coffee grinders, glass siphons and plastic piston, which can conjure up different kinds of coffee made with commercial coffee machines.

The mini-bar, which he opened with his partner Andreas Tribsch in 2011 at Rudolfskai 38 wants to open (similar to the roasting 220 degrees in the Chiemseegasse) provide Salzburg with coffee culture, "the eyes of diversity. Coffee is more than just black "said John Stubberud. If need be, the Norwegians can even sip quite a few cups per hour: As a juror, he was last in the Barista Championships in Vienna use. And for the "Cup of Excellence" program, will be awarded at the tip of coffee, he travels the world as a referee. Knowledge of the origin and the care taken in the preparation it may be, the coffees of commodity differs. Work that his business with many specialties and a few seats would have, at first, hardly anyone believed. "I was always wondering why I did not open up in the alley crop. But the place on Mozartsteg fits." And now some guests have said that he felt in the small Salzburg "a bit like New York."


Idea Exchange: Create your own coffee roasting plant
Coffee has inspired the conference business
HERRENBERG. Transferred to their own passion for good coffee to guests - which has proven in the case of Roland Nölly a really good idea. The Director of the Ringhotel Gasthof Hasen in Herrenberg near Stuttgart, describes himself as "absolute coffee fan", the smallest coffee roaster operates Baden-Wuerttemberg. The machine is clearly visible behind glass next to the hotel entrance and is a looker in the spacious lobby, where both the reception and bar area are housed.
The idea of ​​roasting your own coffee originated in 2008 with another restaurateur. Nölly, who is a trained chef and attended hotel school in Lausanne, said: "I'm Swiss and I love good coffee. I hope, therefore quality and low acidity. "Moreover, he liked the idea of ​​being able to experiment with blends. They wanted to share the investment costs, which are held by a small roaster 15000-25000 €. But as so often, it turned out differently, and Nölly bought the commercial coffee machine alone. Nölly that the purchase discount, got him a little made up for it, that he still needed a special exhaust system for the lobby. "The smell was just too intense," recalls Nölly. Today, everything went smoothly. The machine has a pleasant smell, humming in the background and is often talked about but for those who are in the bar area. School classes were too guided tours there. And learn from satisfied guests, or on the Facebook page of the rabbit always new people from the roaster stronghold.

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600-700 pounds of coffee purchased Nölly a year. There are many different varieties, the beans come from Africa, Guatemala and Papua New Guinea. The pounds will cost 4-8 €, 2.16 € coffee tax coming on top. "The coffee roaster is not an income property," admits Nölly and still looks very happy. "I was a labor of love that must not be worth it." He can ask for prices for popular cappuccino, latte macchiato or Schümli, the director relies on a mixed calculation when shopping. He buys fair trade coffee from Matched, but also varieties without a certificate. "It depends on the taste," says Nölly.
Although the coffee roaster is not a return object, it adds life to the store and starts loudly Nölly "slowly beginning to pay off." The R & B in the area strongly established 4-star hotel can therefore set additional culinary highlights and organizes coffee tastings, which are staged with whiskey and chocolate.
Although saying Nölly can not "whether and to what extent" of the F & B revenue specifically from the "coffee hobby" benefits, he noted: ". Demand for meetings is increasing and this is the coffee" Each meeting room is equipped with its own coffee, and in the package is full of office coffee beans included.
Maintained and operated the machine from the house engineer Helmut Neumann, who has worked for three years in the hotel and for minutes on varieties, growing regions and is roasting grades can refer. "And even the skins of the beans are still usable," he says. "They can be used as fertilizer for lice."