Munich, home of Oktoberfest and lederhosen, Viktualienmarkt, and weisswurst. And…coffee. Yes, a southern Bavarian city has a drinking tradition besides beer! If you’ve ever been to Munich, we competence have even come opposite a name Dallmayr, a famous coffeehouse and spit (among other things) for some-more than 300 years.
Munich’s Viktualienmarkt
Munich is also famous as a “northernmost city of Italy.” The inhabitants of Munich adore to wander around, to lay outside, to see and be seen. If a Italian coffee tradition is still somewhat out of reach, Munich is meddlesome and learning.
For your subsequent visit, coffee fan, we competence wish to take more time to try a city beyond the common sights, given Munich’s specialty coffee stage has been elaborating over a past 5 years, with dual new cafes just non-stop in tumble 2016. Since 2015 Munich has also been home of a 2016 German Coffee Championships, that took place in November, and a city’s coffee destiny is bright.
Mahlefitz
Peter Schlögl, owners of Mahlefitz, has a credentials in wine. The proceed to specialty coffee, as we know, is not distant from there: both offer extended varieties in flavors and approaches. Mahlefitz, Schlögl’s roastery and cafe, non-stop in Jan 2014. His roasting style, as good as a interior pattern of a cafe, are very most desirous by Scandinavia. The chairs, for example, are selected from 1950s and ’70s Denmark. The roasts that come by his Loring roaster—one of customarily dual of its type in Germany—are light, bright, and juicy.
The keen-eyed competence notice one detail, something many specialty shops aim for (but customarily concur to patron demand): there’s no sugarine here. If we try a espresso, though—pulled with a Synesso—you can ambience a honeyed pointing that goes into each shot. That said, we should really try one of a cakes for your honeyed tooth, or, if you’re adult for something some-more savory, a freshly done sandwich or a housemade granola.
After 3 years in business with Mahlefitz, Schlögl is prepared to launch a mobile version. “It is my proceed to offer as most as probable of a coffee supply chain, from immature coffee to a cup,” he says. “With a espresso bike, we wish to take a subsequent step.” The bike will start traversing a city later this year.
Man Versus Machine
It was my second time visiting Man Versus Machine and my second time articulate to Marco Mehrwald, one of a owners. This time, though, I was during Man Versus Machine’s new plcae in Munich’s Maxvorstadt district, right subsequent to a new university. Both of a cafes uncover a adore for Japan and a enlightenment common by Mehrwald and Cornelia Mehrwald, his mother and co-owner (exemplified by a huge, folding, indigo-blue fabric on a wall of the new cafe). The Mehrwalds’ personalities can be seen in their beverages and coffee equipment (such as several Japanese teas and Hario filter-brewing gear), as good as in their pattern choices: a instruction they gave Jon Contino, the designer of their distinguished logo—a crocodile—came out like this: Scandinavian mutation meets California movement enlightenment meets Japanese courtesy to detail.
Besides a light-roasted coffees—via a Probat roaster in Man Versus Machine’s initial location, in Munich’s Glockenbachviertel—shipped to coffee lovers and specialty cafes all over Europe, as good as a specialty tea also charity in a new cafe, a espresso during a new location is done with a custom-designed Nuova Simonelli Black Eagle. For filter coffee, we can select between a BUNN collection brewer or hand-filtered with an AeroPress, Kalita, or syphon. The Maxvorstadt mark also offers the famous Franzbrötchen, another personal hold from the Mehrwalds, given a famous pastry originally hails from Hamburg, where both used to live.
Café Blá
Blá means “blue” in Icelandic, and this cafe’s interior and pattern sum reflect the tone in a unchanging yet restrained way. As I sit down with Stephanie Bjarnason, a owners of Café Blá, we notice her shirt is a same color. Bjarnason is an operative who incited her dream of carrying her possess specialty cafeteria into a existence during a finish of October. Both her celebrity and that of her homeland, Iceland, gleam by in a cafeteria and also her conversation.
“Coffee, filter coffee, is always a concentration in Iceland,” she says. “When someone asks we to accommodate for tiu dropar—’10 drops’ in Icelandic—they wish to accommodate for coffee. Every domicile even used to fry a possess coffee, in a vessel on a stove.” As it is behind home, Bjarnason’s concentration is on filter coffee. Of course, she offers espresso—pulled from a blue La Marzocco GB5—and with a assistance of Vits der Kaffee (see below) even combined a cafe’s possess espresso blend: Àlfrún, that means “secret of a elves.” (The tip in this box is records of citrus fruit as good as chocolate.)
As for Café Blá’s single-origin coffees, dual varying filter roasts and espresso roasts are offered, with one of them—right now an Ethiopia Samii—being used for both filter and espresso. For a inconclusive customer, Bjarnason will be blissful to ready a Duo (espresso and filter) or a Trio (espresso and cappuccino and filter). What would a Nordic-style coffee knowledge like this be though cinnamon buns? When grouping coffee during a counter, they lay circuitously right during eye turn — we literally can’t (and shouldn’t) disremember them.
Vits der Kaffee
Located tighten to a famous Viktualienmarkt, Vits der Kaffee competence be a oldest coffeehouse charity both classic-style coffees for a area caller as good as a extended accumulation of specialty coffees from around a world. Business consultant Alexander Vits non-stop a roastery-plus-coffee bar over 10 years ago. Now a coffeehouse is uniformly split: half is still clinging to the classical coffeehouse knowledge for everybody looking for a German tradition of cake and coffee, including the brownish-red wooden Viennese-style coffeehouse chairs.
The other half is a complicated specialty coffee business doing approach sourcing and trade (with partners as distant divided as Peru), holding courses, and portion filter coffees brewed with a extended accumulation of rigging that is also accessible for purchase. While articulate to Wolfgang Helmreich, spit during Vits, we drank two cups of Panama Esmeralda, a cleared Geisha and a healthy Catuai. “We are aiming for clarity with all we do,” he says. “The sourcing, a roasting on a Coffee Tech Ghibli R15, as good as a indiscriminate business to cafes and restaurants in Munich and Germany-wide.”
Standl 20
Johannes Bayer, who worked as a barista during Vits while studying, is substantially famous best to coffee fans as a spit behind JB Coffee. He is also now a owners of a cafe, Standl 20, which non-stop in May 2015. Bayer says he’s been in the roasting business for many years already (his studies in preparation never came to be used) offered his coffees all over Europe, yet he’s been underrepresented in Munich itself. After regulating a brief video to introduce a cafeteria judgment behind Standl 20 to a landlords who lease a marketplace stands during Elisabethmarkt, Bayer now runs a customarily coffee mount during a market, portion coffee from within a tiny space that’s generally friendly during wintertime, when we visited.
Bayer wants to pull a artistic partial of coffee by offering a accumulation of signature drinks—served prohibited or cold, depending on a season—with either a Marco batch-brewed filter coffee or an espresso pulled from a custom Kees outpost der Westen Mirage as their base. The newest further to a menu is a mokka, that is prepared traditionally in prohibited sand.
Melanie Böhme is a freelance publisher formed in Frankfurt, Germany. Read some-more Melanie Böhme on Sprudge.
