KONTCH's E&E
Roastery team in Cameroon

KONTCH's E&E | The Roastery

From our trees in Cameroon to your cup.

Take the tour: how we plant, grow, harvest, dry and roast every Kontch's coffee ourselves, without handing the bean to anyone else.

GrownHarvestedRoastedPackedShippedAll in-house, by Kontch's E&E

The tour

Six steps. One family. No middlemen.

Inspecting a young coffee plant on newly cleared land
01

Plant

Young trees are raised from our own selection and planted among bananas, maize and cocoa. A new coffee tree needs three to five years before its first real harvest.

Tree-by-tree care among coffee and banana plants
02

Grow

No chemicals, no monoculture. The team checks the trees one by one, prunes by hand and lets the shade canopy protect the soil.

Walking the young coffee rows with the farm manager
03

Harvest

Cherries are picked by hand only when fully ripe, so every bag starts with sugar, not shortcuts.

Drying coffee on raised beds
04

Dry & sort

The cherries dry slowly on raised beds in the sun, are turned daily and sorted by hand before storage.

Quality check during roasting
05

Roast

Roasting is the key to a good coffee. We roast in small batches and taste every batch, then decide which tier it earns: Gold, Platinum or Diamond.

Kontch's coffee tins in a row
06

Pack & ship

Packed in compostable or reusable packaging and shipped from Switzerland to your door, across Switzerland and Europe.

On the farm

A season in Cameroon, in pictures.

Planting season on the farm
Planting season on the farm
Young coffee tree in the sun
Young coffee tree in the sun
Healthy coffee canopy
Healthy coffee canopy
Green coffee cherries in clusters
Green coffee cherries in clusters
Drying beds with family elder
Drying beds with family elder
Checking freshly harvested coffee
Checking freshly harvested coffee
Cocoa tree with ripe pods
Cocoa tree with ripe pods

Visit us in Cameroon

Come and see the full production yourself.

If you'd like to visit our farms and roastery in Cameroon, fill in the form and we'll reply personally to plan your visit.

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Kontch's E&E crown

Not just a coffee, your coffee