You love coffee? Well, we love coffee, too. That’s no secret, I know – we write and post about it all the time. We even run our own Cee Cee Cafe. So when Philipp Reichel, founder of Vote Coffee and Kaffee Neun (and previously involved in the former Coffee Festival) approached us to ask if we’d be up for joining a new kind of coffee event, naturally we were hooked. So here we are now, one year later and made it: the Coffee Week Berlin is about to start. The idea: giving the exciting Berlin specialty coffee scene a new platform to get together, to share and exchange knowledge, create visibility and of course to simply share the love for coffee with you. So whether you’re simply enjoying your home brewing and all things from filter to latte art or you’re an expert leading the way to the perfect tastes and techniques, this event is for you. For this year’s premiere we’ve compiled an inspiring program happening across town at all those locations that make the caffeine magic happen: cafes and roasteries. Among the line-up is – first things first: the opening event! Your chance to pop by the Cee Cee Cafe if you haven’t made it yet. There’ll be drinks, music and good vibes.

After mingling with other caffeine enthusiasts, you’re invited to get serious about the essentials of every brew: join the talk on bean import at Flying Roasters. If you’re then ready to improve your skills, the “How to make the perfect espresso” lesson with the experts from La Marzocco is for you (thank you to La Marzocco and Oatly on this note – who are our partners for this very first edition!). And if you’d like to watch the real pros doing their magic: the German Aeropress Championship is happening at the Five Elephant Roastery. We hope you’re ready for some input from beans to brews and tastes to techniques. P.S. if you’re ready to upgrade to pro level: our partner of this first Coffee Week Berlin is La Marzocco who is giving away a coffee machine. Check our website to enter the competition.  

Text: Nina Trippel / Photos & Graphic: Cee Cee Creative, Sophie Döring, Rebecca Schatz

Coffee Week Berlin
04.–10.09.2023. Opening Event: 04.09.2023 17–19h at Cee Cee Cafe, Besselstr.13, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Full program here. No RSVP required.

@coffeeweek.berlin

In 2017, Berlin restaurants Nobelhart & Schmutzig and Horváth founded the initiative Die Gemeinschaft. With a seemingly simple goal: not only to rethink the relationship between food producers, restaurateurs and end consumers, but to rebuild it. Die Gemeinschaft wants to promote dialogue between ourselves and gastronomy through networking, education and exchange, in order to create a new food culture together and in dialogue. On September 11 and 12, 2023, the annual symposium will take place, bringing together all culinary stakeholders in the country for a better food system. On the first day, Gut Boltenhof near Fürstenberg in Brandenburg invites you to a personal and festive exchange. There will be discussions, round tables and workshops on relevant topics such as new ways of working or how to appreciate animal processing. The evening will conclude with “From Earth & Team” Head Chef Jan serving a three-course menu, which is limited to 80 people and can be booked as an add-on. Billy Wagner will provide the wine accompaniment with tasting bottles from his wine cellar.

The second day takes place in Berlin. Every hour there will be exciting ideas, places and people presenting their unique work: from the production of bee-friendly pressed honey, sourdough pasta, agroforestry tour in the Wilmars Gärten to cheese tasting. We find Die Gemeinschaft to be as ambitious as it is important in today’s world, where food is not universally appreciated and understanding of production processes is largely lacking. Networking, education and exchange are the tools. And at the end of the day, we all want to eat good food from quality sources in good company – and community, don’t we?

Text: Laura Iriondo  / Photos: Dinah Hoffmann, Carla Ulrich

Das Symposium
11.09.2023 at Gut Boltenhof, Lindenallee 14,16798 Fürstenberg–Havel; map12.09.2023. Various locations in Berlin.

You can find the full program and tickets here.

@diegemeinschaft