Robbie Roberts began roasting coffee in 1991. He founded the coffee company that became Joe Van Gogh, Inc., in 1994 and bought his first Loring ten years later. Joe Van Gogh roasts its coffee and runs its business from Hillsborough, NC, and it operates cafes in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. Roberts lives in Chapel […]
Michael de Renouard is a certified Loring Roast Master, SCA Authorized trainer, and roasting consultant. He has been roasting with a Loring since 2011 at Solberg & Hansen in Oslo and has gained a tremendous amount of experience as a coffee industry professional since he started roasting in 2006. Michael hosts roasting workshops in Europe […]
Kat Melheim is a roaster, barista, writer, artist, and all-around coffee person. She has been roasting for five years but has been involved in the coffee industry for eight. Kat was born and raised in Minnesota, and got her start in coffee in Colorado, and just recently moved to North Carolina. She has been working […]
This month we spoke with Gabriel Carol from PAGA Microroastery located in Bangkok, Thailand. Gabriel is from Giurgiu, Romania and has been in the coffee industry since 2012. He is 29 years old and the owner and head roaster of the beautiful PAGA Microroastery, where he works full-time. He has won the Romania Brewers Cup […]
How did you go about deciding your brand look, feel, and design? For my wife and I, our background is that we were two accountants, so that creative side really wasn’t the greatest for us. So we sat down with a local artist here just based out of Woodstock, Georgia, and told them our feelings […]