City Roastery Geisha, Santa Clara, Renacimiento, Panama

Lightly roasted, it unfolds its complex, fruity and floral aroma. Balanced, sweet, clean. A Geisha from the Finca Hartmann. The Hartmann family is one of the pioneers of speciality coffees and began cultivating coffee in Panama as early as 1940. Even today, the cultivation of coffee in harmony with nature and the preservation of biodiversity are still practised.

The Stadtrösterei Solothurn is the speciality roastery of Oetterli Kaffee. The idea is to move away from the "mainstream" of (too) dark-roasted coffees based on cheap green coffee and towards genuine speciality coffee. In the middle of the city, it is a meeting place where everyone can philosophise about coffee and discover the natural product coffee, a fruit, from a completely different perspective. No show, but real roasting art from the Swiss coffee roasting champion 2018.

The roasting master is Panagiotis "Panos" Megalessis, guru, freak, enthusiast, coffee sommelier or coffee artist. Panos has coffee and Greek-Swiss blood flowing through his veins. It all started in his own four walls, where Panos experimented with coffee for years, ordered green coffee from the best growing regions in the world, developed his own roasts and exchanged ideas with specialists around the globe on the "net". Add to this his many years of practical experience as a barista. His skills culminated in winning two silver medals (Latte Art and Brewers Cup) at Swiss championships. Since April 2016, Panos has been working as a roasting master at the "Stadtrösterei". By winning the gold medal in 2018 (Swiss Champion) and a 5th place at the World Coffee Roasting Championships, Panos has shown in an impressive way that he not only lives his craft, but also understands it.