About Nomi Coffee
Although Austrian cafes still tend to stick to their Viennese coffee traditions, there are some who are jumping on the Third Coffee Wave. These include Nomi coffee, a Viennese roastery with its own café- Kaffeemodul.
The Kaffeemodul café opened in 2012. Their baristas rely on precision in their daily work and they are also actively involved in all sorts of competitions. In 2016, they managed to win the Austrian Brewer's Cup (national competition in the preparation of filtered coffee) and Cup Tasting (national competition in learning the tastes of coffee). As the winners of the national competitions always advance to the global ones, Nomi continued to the World Cup Tasting competition that same year, where they managed to place in a beautiful 4th place. The following year, three baristas from the Kaffeemodule took 2nd, 3rd and 4th place at the Austrian Aeropress Championship. Then came the next step, the opening of the roastery in 2018.
The modest but modern roastery is located in the Simmering district of Vienna. Here, the new green coffee is roasted ... roasted ... and roasted again, until the roasters are absolutely satisfied with the results and find the right recipe. Nomi also uses the latest tools, such as roasters connected to a software system to record the entire roasting process, grain development and the final result. Thanks to this, after finding the ideal recipe, their coffee can always be roasted to that same perfection. Their roaster was specifically made for them in Athens.
Nomi only buys green coffee beans that inspires a sense of worth. Probably the most important thing for them is to pay a fair price. To do this, it is necessary to maintain transparency between the farmer and the roastery and to select a suitable supplier who can maintain this transparency. As a result, the farmer learns what happens to his coffee and how his coffee is received on the other side of the world, and we can learn something about the world and culture in which the coffee grew. On their journey to complete transparency, Nomi has published the so-called FOB price (Free On Board, i.e. the purchase price at the place of origin) of their green beans. Nomi set this purchase price at $ 2.10 per pound of coffee but usually pays much more (the current worldwide minimum price per pound of coffee is $ 1, for Fair Trade coffees $ 1.40). But it doesn't just end here, Nomi intends to gradually increase this minimum price.
