Populus Coffee

02/10/2026

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POPULUS× Material
Brew Bar Pop-up

We’re teaming up with our friends at Material for two weekends of coffee and sourdough bakery, and we’d love for you to stop by.

What we’ll be serving
-Hand-drip coffee
-Sourdough bakery from Material
-Cinnamon rolls and caramel sauce, made by Material especially for Populus
-Retail bags of coffee to take home

Date:
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00-16:00
Sunday, October 18 | 10:00-16:00
Both days until sold out

Location:
Schönhauser Allee 156, 10435 Berlin (right next to Material)

Come share a quiet cup with us, treat yourself with freshly baked, and spend a little time in good company. We’d love to see you there.

01/10/2026

Happy International Coffee Day.

From seedling through crafting, nursing, planting, pruning, attending, picking, sorting, depulping, washing, processing, drying, milling, packing, shipping, sampling, roasting, cupping, packaging, grinding, brewing, and serving to your cup, coffee goes through multiple highly meticulous steps that require dozens of pairs of hands along the way. On its way, coffee connects hundreds of millions of livelihoods around the world.

When you drink a cup of coffee today, think of all the people behind the cup and the journey the beans have made to make it to you.

Thank you to all our partners for the great coffees we get to represent.

Pictures and videos from our trips during the last 10 years.

28/09/2026

Imperio Rojo – Catugeisha - Costa Rica

An uncommon hybrid or mutation related to Catuai and Geisha genetics, creating a structured and elegant cup with notes of lemon iced tea, cashews, gooseberries, and lingering brown sugar sweetness.
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We visited the owners of Imperio Rojo, Karla and José Alvarado, last year on their farm, Las Brisas, where you can really see the passion and dedication to quality and exploration.

What began as a dream to add value to their harvest has grown into a micro-beneficio model that allows them to oversee each step of their process personally. Coming from a background of construction and heavy machinery work to specialty coffee production, they are driven by a desire to understand and improve what they had to offer.

They cultivate a diverse selection of varieties renowned for their exceptional cup quality, including Ethiopian 47, Kenya, Geisha, SL28, Villalobos, and Catugeisha. This botanical diversity is matched by an equally ambitious processing program that includes natural, honey, washed, rested-washed, double-washed, and anaerobic methods. These techniques are designed to highlight the unique characteristics of each variety and micro-lot.​

The family wants to be recognized for the quality of their products and to secure a place in international markets not just as exporters, but as artisans of specialty coffee cultivated with purpose.

24/09/2026

Meet the Populus team – Chiaki. 👋

Chiaki is our Wholesale and Community Manager and is here to take care of all our wholesale customers and to make sure everyone gets the support they need to brew delicious cups every day. 💚☕️

In her Community Manager role, she is in charge of planning our events. She is a huge fan and a regular participant in all sorts of coffee-related happenings, and is the best person to bring exciting and fun events to the specialty coffee community in Berlin and beyond.

As the reigning Cup Tasters Champion of Germany, Chiaki is an excellent addition to our quality control team with Ellie and Henrik.

You can reach Chiaki through our Instagram, website, or by emailing her if you have any questions regarding our wholesale options or events you would love to host with Populus. 🙌

22/07/2026

22/06/2026

Hugo Pareja - Incahuasi, Peru - Caturra & Bourbon

Juicy, creamy and delightfully bright mix of Caturra and Bourbon from Hugo Pareja from Incahuasi district, Cusco, Peru. This coffee brews a delicious cup with notes of gooseberries, white grapes and mixed stone fruits.

Hugo Pareja's farm sits at one of the highest altitudes in the Incahuasi district, perhaps even in Peru between 2300-2500 meters in altitude. He has been redeveloping shade for the coffee trees in these otherwise treeless areas and developing infrastructure for extended fermentation, washing tanks and drying beds.

The farm's name, Inka Rumi “Coffee on the Rocks”, derives from the massive boulders throughout the farm. despite the boulders, the dark volcanic soil in Inka Rumi is very rich in nutrients. All it took was a few light shade trees at this 2400+ meter high farm to make the perfect conditions for growing coffee.

Hugo, like many other farmers in Incahuasi valley, utilizes the Peruvian Ayni system of working, where many hands make light work and people can rotate the picking regularly. Hugo works mainly with the Arabica varieties of Caturra and Bourbon, with some Typica, which are performing very well at this altitude, much better than the hybrid varieties like Catimor which Hugo is currently pulling out of is farm. All varieties are separated at harvest to make micro-lots of each variety and this year we chose his Caturra and Bourbon to create this unique farmer micro-lot.

The members of each committee in the Incahuasi Coop share the same Inca ancestry and culture. Traditionally the Incas share the working processes amongst the community and today the members of the Inchuasi Coop still employ the methods of Minka -to share work on infrastructure in the community- and Ayni -to share work and collaborate between farmers on a day to day basis-. Through this collaboration of work the practices become refined amongst each farmer and perfected in the Inca tradition.
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19/06/2026

Happy Midsummer/Midsommar/Juhannus/Summer solstice!

To us Finns, Juhannus is probably the most magical and anticipated holiday of the year. It’s a celebration of the summer, the nightless night and respect for nature and community. It’s often spent by the lakeside or the coast with friends and family, eating, drinking and of course bathing in the sauna, as well as doing traditional spells and magic. ✨️🌸🪷🏵🌹🌺🌷🪻🔥

Great coffee is of naturally an essential part of any celebration and also helps to get the most out of the longest day of the year. ☀️👀☀️
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08/06/2026

Start your 'World of Coffee' morning fresh with a celebration of clarity, sweetness, and brightness; as well as shared passion, community, and friendship.

Crisp and Clean is a curated cupping featuring exclusively washed coffees from four outstanding, award-winning European roasteries:

✨️MOK Coffee, Brussels /

✨️Populus Coffee, Berlin / .coffee

✨️Good Life Coffee, Helsinki /

✨️Kaffa Roastery, Oslo /

Expect vibrant acidity, transparent flavor profiles, coffees that showcase the elegance of the washed process, good people, and interesting chats.

We'd appreciate if you could register to the event on Eventbrite to give us an idea of how many people to Expect, but feel free to come by spontaneously as well.
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See you all in Brussels! 💚👋
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02/06/2026

Populus x Zacharias Summer Cupping ☀️☕️

We are joining our friends at Zacharias for a summer cupping.

This event is a part of our 10 year anniversary tour around Europe as well as our celebration of our head roaster Ellie's ( ) win of the German roasters championship.

On the table you will find coffees from people we have been working with even before we started roasting. We are also bringing some special release lots in preparations to follow Ellie on their way to compete at the World Championships in Brussels later this month.

We are cupping coffees from:
Santa Bàrbara, Honduras
Incahuasi, Peru
Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Come slurp, chat and have a good time with us!