KTRL coffee roastery is a lively Central European roastery of specialty coffee from the heart of Budapest in Hungary. Unique and well recognizable with its stylish packaging, which is supposed to evoke VHS tapes designed by Compact Studio.
Behind the KTRL coffee brand is Péter Bajkó, manager of the Kontakt café in Budapest, and Roland Nagy, who is in charge of roasting coffee. According to Roland, they had previously experimentally sold custom roasted coffee at Kontakt Café, and then KTRL made its debut in early November 2020, as a stand-alone coffee roaster. The very name of this roastery is an abbreviation of "KonTaktRoLand" - a tribute to its origin and brand representatives.
Roland selects coffee from a supplier in Antwerp, taking into account the characteristics of the specific production areas and variants and ensuring that he selects freshly harvested coffee. It is also important for him that the coffee plantation or processing plant participates in the social movement and in some way helps the local community. "In the case of our Ethiopian coffee, for example, our green coffee supplier is donating one dollar to an Ethiopian women's employment organization so that more of them can earn a steady income," Roland explained. Once the samples arrive, a tasting arrives, ie Cupping, and then they select coffees for each KTRL category. Then they profile the coffee, as Roland says: "We find a point where the tones of coffee in the final drink can prevail in the most harmonious way."
KTRL coffee roastery roasters are not foreign or environmental conscious, so they try to think ecologically and so-called green. They solve the carbon footprint that arises in the production of their products, and thanks to this, their coffee specialties are supplied with a characteristic packaging, which is also carbon-neutral on top, and the coffee bag and label can be recycled.
