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Prague · Czech Republic

Doubleshot

Since 2010 · Jaroslav Tuček

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Overview

Doubleshot was founded in 2010 in Prague by a team that had split its preparation work in two: half spent a year on coffee farms in Boquete, Panama under Graciano Cruz and exporter Maria Ruiz, while the other half trained at Vancouver's 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters. The company was 'designed almost in mid-air, on the flight back home,' opened its first cafe — Můj šálek kávy ('My Cup of Coffee') in the Karlín district — and was the first Czech roastery to run a direct-trade program in a market then dominated by Italian-style blends. Today Doubleshot roasts roughly 12 tonnes a month on a 60-year-old Probat UG 22 plus an IMF 60kg, runs three Prague cafes, a training school, a bakery (Sladké), and supplies hundreds of cafes across Central and Eastern Europe.

Known for

  • First Czech specialty roastery with a direct-trade program (founded 2010)
  • Founding team trained at 49th Parallel Vancouver and on Graciano Cruz's farms in Panama
  • Can be found in Můj šálek kávy, Místo, and Alza.cz espresso bars
  • Sovda Pearl Mini color sorter (rare in Central Europe)
  • Filter coffee on the menu at Michelin-starred Dégustation Bohême Bourgeoise

Why it matters

Doubleshot is the operation that taught Prague to drink lighter roasts of single-origin coffee — when they started in 2010, the local market was Italian-blend espresso and customers had to be talked into trying anything else. That work, and the wholesale supply they now run across Central and Eastern Europe, is why Prague is now treated as a peer city to Berlin or Copenhagen in European specialty coverage.

Production

color sorting
Sovda Pearl Mini
roaster machine
Probat UG 22 (60+ years old) plus IMF 60kg
roastery location
Just outside Prague city limits
annual volume tonnes
144

Café

Můj šálek kávy (Karlín, original cafe); Místo (near Hradčanská); espresso bar at Alza.cz

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