Origin Roasting
Events Organisers in Cape Town

Origin is an obsession. We select speciality beans with an African focus and transform them through artisan roasting and expert preparation into an exquisite cup. Intensive barista training at Origin extends the quality of our espresso drinks and flat whites to our wholesale clients and their customers countrywide. Cape Town’s De Waterkant is its home.

He wanted to offer South Africans exceptional, quality roasted coffee from around the world. However, recent history and the urbanization process pose many issues for the future of coffee production in the region. Most of these issues are related to low production due to pests and diseases. Farmers are now being forced to introduce resistant varieties in the face of these challenges, but the reality is that many cannot afford to plant disease resistant varieties and face being priced out of the market as their yields diminish. The idea by Scott labs was to create a plant with high cup quality, adequate productivity and excellent drought resistance. Perceived as having lower cup quality than SL28, but still contributes greatly towards a favourable cup-profile. The main breeding goal since has been to develop cultivars that combine resistance to diseases with improved yields and cup quality. In the cup- expect custard, raspberry and passion fruit with a lovely tart, berry- like acidity. This coffee was produced at the historic Rukera Farm, owned and operated by Kenya’s Coffee Research Institute(CRI), one of the country’s primary agricultural bodies. Colombia is currently the third highest producer of coffee in the world and has been one of the top coffee producing countries for many years. On his visit to Colombia, Travis went to El Grado Coffee Farm where he learnt about the production of Colombian coffee from planting, to picking, washing and drying, all the way down to composting. Travis also had the chance to visit a small coffee farm, experience coffee farming with an old local couple and even plant his own coffee trees. In addition to the coffee farms Colombia offers some other unique coffee experiences. In 1995 the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, founded the National Coffee Park, a non-profit initiative for the preservation of the cultural and coffee heritage of Colombia. The show uses traditional Colombian music, sing and dance to take you through the entire history of this grain, cultural traditions and coffee producing regions. The best coffee roasters around the world, whether in South Africa or Japan, are obsessed with quality: from the farms around the world to green beans and finally the cup. Caturra- a dwarf bourbon, is the main varietal grown on the farm, but the perpetual climate change issue and its accompanying pest and disease onslaught are forcing the folks at Aquiares to explore new varieties that are more resilient. The washed coffees gets picked, pulped, fermented, washed, then dried. Wet processing will also highlight genetic flavour and quality traits of the variety being used. Naturals, as they are affectionately called, are picked and then dried in the sun, just like that. It must be noted that the acidity profile with this style of processing seems to be less diverse than wet-processed coffees- more monotone in general, but delicious nonetheless. Our intention here, was to explore one variety from the same farm processed in two different ways. It was originally grown for it’s high yield, but also has a moderate resistance level to coffee leaf rust. A classic fully washed coffee that’s immaculately processed using a single variety, grown and tended to with a competition focus.