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Ljubljana · Slovenia

Stow Specialty Coffee

Since 2015 · Aleš Turšič, Peter Ševič

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Overview

Stow was founded in 2015 by Aleš Turšič — owner and head roaster — together with Peter Ševič, an SCA-certified former pro cyclist who discovered specialty coffee at the 2006 London Coffee Festival after his cycling career ended in a crash. The roastery operates from the town of Kamnik with a flagship café set inside Ljubljana's City Museum at Gosposka 15, plus a Stow 2GO kiosk and the Stow Academy delivering SCA Coffee Diploma training. They roast roughly two tons a year for the cafés and a growing wholesale program, with explicit ambitions to be the leading specialty roaster across the wider Balkan region.

Known for

  • Founded 2015 by Aleš Turšič (head roaster/owner) and Peter Ševič (SCA trainer, ex-pro cyclist)
  • Roastery in Kamnik; flagship café inside Ljubljana's City Museum
  • Roughly 2 tons of coffee roasted per year
  • Operates the Stow Academy delivering SCA Coffee Diploma System training
  • Plans to convert all coffee buying to direct-trade only

Why it matters

Slovenia's coffee culture had been almost entirely Italian-influenced espresso bars before Stow opened, and Turšič and Ševič essentially built the local specialty-coffee infrastructure — roastery, retail café, training academy, and SCA certification pipeline — from nothing. The Academy is the more important long-term investment: it's training the next generation of Slovenian baristas to international standards, which is what enables a specialty market to exist at all.

Production

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head roaster
Aleš Turšič
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roaster machine
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filter equipment
V60, Chemex, Cold brew
cupping frequency
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roastery location
Kamnik, Slovenia
espresso equipment
La Marzocco
annual volume tonnes
2

Café

Gosposka ulica 15, 1000 Ljubljana (inside City Museum of Ljubljana)

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