BrewCraft began with two roasters and a borrowed Giesen W6A in a 38m² shop on Iktinou street. Eight years later we still roast every bag in front of customers, still buy from three farms, and still answer the phone ourselves.
Stelios and Anneke met on a Q-grader cupping course in Trieste and married a year later. He had spent six years on bar in Melbourne; she had trained as a roaster at De Beren Coffee in Utrecht.
They leased a narrow shopfront in Ladadika and put a 5kg Giesen behind a glass wall so that every customer could watch green turn to amber turn to mahogany. The first crowd-funded sack came from Suke Quto, Ethiopia, and was roasted on opening day in front of forty friends.
Four things we will not trade away, written plainly so you can hold us to them.
| Year | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2017 | BrewCraft opens on Iktinou 24 with one Giesen W6A and a borrowed Slayer espresso machine. |
| 2018 | First direct-trade contract with the Worka Sakaro cooperative in Yirgacheffe. |
| 2019 | Subscriptions launch with twelve members. |
| 2021 | The wholesale roastery moves to 220m² on Pavlou Mela. The brew bar stays exactly where it is. |
| 2023 | Best Newcomer Roastery, Athens Coffee Festival. |
| 2024 | Eleni places third at the Greek Brewers Cup with a BrewCraft Konga. |
| 2026 | 380 weekly subscribers, 46 wholesale accounts, and no plans to scale past what we can roast in a fortnight. |
Ninety minutes behind the glass, every Saturday at 14:00 and Sunday at 11:00, ten people at a time.