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In these times of express capsule coffee, there is
a growing demand for real roasteries and
traditional piston-driven espresso machines
that can turn coffee-drinking back into an
everyday special occasion. Brother and sister
Oscar and Sophia Wetterblad are responding to
this demand, roasting selected beans and
creating their own unusual blends at Roastery
Engelberg on Dorfstrasse.
The delicious scent of freshly roasted
cof fee beans fills the air at Dor fstrasse
9 – home to the lov ingly appointed cof fee
shop Roaster y Engelberg.
Sacks of beans have
just arrived from India, Peru,
Brazil and Guatemala. But an-
yone expec ting to find a fier y
Hispanic barista to match is
in for a surprise, as behind
the counter stands a young woman with blonde
hair and blue eyes. Swedish-born Sophia Wet-
terblad runs the cof fee roaster y with her broth-
er, Oscar. The siblings have cof fee in their blood
(so to speak), as their father has worked in the
sec tor for a good 30 years and even owns a cof-
fee plantation in Guatemala. He began passing
on his knowledge about blending and roasting
to Sophia and Oscar when they were basically
still in the cradle. “We’ve been involved in cof-
fee roasting since we were small,” says Sophia.
The secret to quality cof fee involves far
more than just the beans – which the Wetter-
blads impor t direc tly from fair trade farmers
whom they know personally. “A good blend is
achieved by mi xing beans from dif ferent con-
tinents,” explains Oscar. “It also comes down
to how the beans are roasted and the machine
that is used to make the cof fee.” The Roaster y
represents a counter trend to today’s ubiqui-
tous capsule cof fee machines. “When people
come into our shop, they are excited about
the cof fee beans. Many feel disappointed that
they only have a capsule machine at home.”
Its success is proof that Roaster y Engelberg’s
philosophy has captured the zeitgeist per fec tly.
In Januar y 2015, Sophia and Oscar opened their
small roaster y as a side projec t. But before long
it had turned into a f ull-time job – one that
the pair now pour their hear ts and souls into.
Sophia began a Master’s degree in healthcare
last autumn, and is therefore mainly found at
the Roaster y during holidays and weekends.
In addition to ser v ing passers-by who pop
in for a cof fee or to buy the
shop’s special blends – such
as “Sunny Side” and “Dark
Side” – the young entrepre-
neurs also supply hotels and
of fices with their produc ts.
The cof fee blends are par-
ticularly popular among tourists as presents
to take back for friends and family at home.
The cof fee is now also available from the shop
on the Roaster y’s website, as well as online
shopping platform Globus. What ’s more, the
pair of fer a roasting workshop for groups of
up to eight people, where par ticipants get to
roast their own cof fee to take home with them
af terwards. They also receive adv ice on how
the beverage should be properly prepared.
But it ’s not just the cof fee that war-
rants a v isit to Roaster y Engelberg; v isitors
also love its atmosphere and décor, and the
cof fee shop has many regulars. Perched at
a table made from stacked pallets with an
Engelberg map table top, customers can watch
beans being roasted and listen with inter-
est to the Wetterblads’ fascinating stories
about cof fee and its produc tion. They can
also pick up inspiration and tips about out-
ings around Engelberg. So for quality cof fee
(and conversation), head to the Roaster y.
The coffee roastery represents a
countertrend to today’s ubiqui-
tous capsule coffee machines.
Auf dem Tisch in der «Roastery»
ist die Karte Engelbergs – die
Wetterblads haben stets gute
Ausflugstipps auf Lager.
A map of Engelberg covers the
table top at the Roastery – the
Wetterblads always have
great tips for local outings.
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