There are many world-famous coffee brands. Some mainly operate as chain stores with unified raw materials and standards, so the quality of the coffee they produce is relatively consistent; others operate as independent coffee shops, offering different coffee products for customers to choose from. As the coffee culture grows stronger, both chain enterprises and independent shops have launched their own roasted coffee beans. Below is a list of the most representative coffee brands.

Front Street Coffee Frontsteet Coffee

Origin: China

Founded:2013year

As a local coffee brand in Guangzhou, Front Street Coffee was founded in 2013 and can definitely be called a time-honored name. It specializes in its own roasted coffee beans and offers more than 50 types of fresh coffee, which can be purchased online through its Tmall flagship store and Taobao store. For many years, the Front Street Coffee official account has insisted on posting daily, sharing coffee knowledge covering everything from coffee beans, coffee equipment, and brewing to flavor. Many detailed questions encountered in making and drinking coffee have been thoroughly explained and discussed by Front Street Coffee.

Since opening, Front Street Coffee has still maintained its original intention—focusing on making good coffee. Therefore, the shop only provides coffee, paired with a small cookie, and no other desserts, cakes, or other foods. At the same time, because there are many varieties of coffee beans, from light roast to dark roast, from floral to caramel, from fruity fermented flavors to rich and mellow taste, from espresso blends to pour-over single origins, there is everything, and customers can easily choose the beans they like here.   

The Barn

Origin: Berlin, Germany

Founded: 2010year

The Barn's philosophy is quite simple: sourcing, roasting, and brewing good coffee. Its firm commitment to building stable relationships at every stage of coffee is what makes it appealing. Ralf Ruller's four coffee shops and roastery all put this philosophy into practice. The first step is to obtain good beans, which means the beans must be high quality (The Barn usually sources directly from farms and farmers that have won Cup of Excellence) and grown using sustainable methods.

The Barn does not hesitate to pay high prices for quality coffee beans. This may sound like a matter of course, but it is actually quite rare in the coffee world (the competition between specialty coffee and the ordinary coffee market illustrates this). It also "slow roasts" the coffee beans it supplies, that is, using light roasting to allow the beans to express more of their origin flavors.

Coffee Superme

Origin:Wellington, New Zealand

Founded:1993year

As the inheritor of New Zealand's specialty coffee flame, Coffee Supreme may be one of the most charming coffee companies. It has repeatedly won awards in packaging design, store design, and other areas, and it is very good at showcasing its coffee. If you do not believe it, you can try their coffee.

Coffee Supreme has been decades ahead of most coffee roasters in the world. It began roasting in the 1990s and supplies coffee from almost all specialty and sub-specialty regions, and it has always remained at the forefront of coffee sustainability, for example by purchasing and selling hybrid varieties such as F1, which have rare commercial value but high agricultural and energy-saving benefits.

Switch Coffee

Origin:Tokyo, Japan

Founded:2013year

Switch Coffee did not originally belong on this list. It is not a large roaster; it consists of only a single café and one Probat roaster, and it is led by one person alone, but Masahiro Onishi's shop size conceals its strengths.

Onishi learned roasting under Toshiyuki Ishiwata of Market Lane Coffee (another excellent Australian roastery), and learned sourcing under Katsuhide Izaki of another Japanese specialty roasting company, Honey Coffee (who is also a certified Cup of Excellence judge). René Redzepi signed his approval of its quality in the shop. The technique of brewing Switch Coffee accounts for only half of what makes it successful, because it is also a small, high-end roasting workshop.

Although Japan has many excellent roasters and coffee shops—we can name more than a hundred—only very few cafés can provide such a high level of service.

180 Coffee

Origin:Seoul, South Korea

Founded:2013year

In just a few years, South Korea went from a country mainly drinking instant coffee to one eager for specialty coffee. In other words, in the past five years alone, the number of cafés in South Korea has nearly tripled, making it one of the fastest-growing emerging markets for both specialty coffee and ordinary coffee.

In a country without much coffee history, 180 Coffee is one of the highly regarded coffee roasters, and its coffee can rival the best in the world. It is the only Korean roaster with two Korean coffee roasting titles (its founder Lee Seung-jin was the first winner), and its standing on the world stage is also very high.

Right Side Coffee

Hometown: Castelldefels, Spain

Founded: 2012

Spain has a long coffee history, it is just that the coffee has never been very good. Joaquin Parra's Spanish coffee roastery is named after "creativity and passion," and Right Side Coffee exudes that passion. Parra's father is a green coffee importer, and he is a champion of the Spanish roasting championship and a regular at the World Coffee Roasting Championship.

Although receiving honors and winning trophies is a good thing, what truly elevates Right Side Coffee is highly transparent sourcing. Every bag of coffee beans they sell has an "information" label, and when you open it you will find a short essay about the specific farm, origin characteristics, and history. Strangely, Right Side Coffee does not have its own café, but it has many sales points across Spain. If you visit here, you can check its sales points here or order online.

Gardelli Specialty Coffees

Origin:ItalyForli

Founded:2010year

If there is a Michael Jordan in the coffee world, it must be Rubens Gardelli. He is praised as one of the most successful roasters ever, with a record of winning the World Roasting Championship as many as four or five times. Most recently, he won the Italian Roasting Championship for four consecutive years, and inexplicably also won multiple coffee brewing and World Brewing Championship trophies in Italy. No roaster's achievements can compare with his.

Gardelli specialty coffees are all light roasts, fully respecting the beans themselves rather than letting the roast decide. You can buy its constantly updated products online, including a rare coffee from the Gesha Village in Ethiopia, and Gardelli is the only roaster in Europe supplying that coffee.

Solberg & Hansen

Origin:Oslo, Norway

Founded:1879year

In the world of young people, Solberg & Hansen is definitely an elder. The company was founded 139 years ago and was Norway's first coffee roasting company, and very likely its best.

The company's roasting team is now led by Simo Christidi, a top-five winner at the 2012 World Coffee Roasting Championship and a multiple champion of the Norwegian and Nordic coffee roasting competitions. Its concept store in Oslo's Mathallen specialty food hall is a display of its philosophy. It is a pure coffee shop dedicated to showing the essential power of coffee, so you will not find milk or sweeteners here.

Drop Coffee

Origin:Stockholm, Sweden

Founded:2009year

Joanna Alm and Stephen Leighton's coffee company originally started as a small coffee shop that did not roast its own coffee. A few years later, it became a true leader of Europe's third-wave coffee movement, and today it is considered one of the best coffee roasteries in the world (in the World Coffee Roasting Championship, only Gardelli Specialty Coffees has more often entered the top five).

Over the past five years, the team's roaster Alm has been named Sweden's best coffee roaster four times, and its baristas have won the Swedish Barista Championship multiple times. Although it has only a small café, the whole operation feels very welcoming. Browsing Drop's online store feels more like flipping through a family photo album than buying coffee. Co-founder Joanna Alm is also very friendly in interviews. Happily, Drop Coffee is almost at the top of the coffee world, yet without the slightest trace of old-school coffee influence.

Square Mile Coffee Roasters

Hometown:London, United Kingdom

Founded:2008year

Square Mile was founded by specialty coffee experts Anette Moldvaer and James Hoffmann, with only one goal: to make London famous for coffee. With strict implementation of sustainable practices, numerous awards and titles, it is basically an all-star team for British coffee. Square Mile particularly stands out in an area where others do not excel: sourcing specialty coffee beans from promising regions.

In10during the last week of the month, this coffee shop in East London introduced specialty coffee beans from China and Myanmar, two origins whose coffee beans are very difficult to see in other coffee shops around the world (even the roasters on this list have not used them). You can buy the company's coffee online, and its products change irregularly.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.