Get ready for yet another inspiring Barista Story! 💫
“Coffee roasters, baristas and all coffee geeks should honour each bean they get in touch with, and it doesn’t matter if it is an 80-point Caturra or a 92-point Geisha.” -
@wild.cobb
Jakub Sobota did not arrive in coffee through a dramatic revelation. It started with craft beer, a filter coffee he initially despised, and a slow curiosity that quietly took over everything else. Since 2016, that curiosity has carried him from barista to roaster, from competitor to festival organiser, and eventually to founding
@headbag.roasters , the first specialty coffee roastery born in Košice, Slovakia. The transition from working behind the bar to operating a roaster was not an overnight decision. It took years of building, a job he dreaded, and a trip to the coffee plantations of Sumatra that made the path ahead suddenly obvious.
Headbag Roasters, which he runs with his partner
@oliviaannvojar , is deliberately small and deliberately personal. Jakub still gets behind the bar regularly, still delivers coffee to local shops himself straight after roasting, and still thinks about coffee the way a barista does: in terms of what ends up in the cup and how it makes someone feel. That dual perspective, knowing both sides of the process intimately, shapes everything about how he selects, roasts, and talks about his coffees. Clean profiles, honest origins, and a firm belief that natural and washed coffees deserve far more attention than the industry currently gives them.
Outside the roastery, Jakub is one of the co-founders of
@festciernyden , a specialty coffee festival in Košice that has grown from a small pop-up into one of the most genuinely community-driven events in the region.
A self-described ordinary person making great coffee, which is exactly how he likes it.
...the full story is on our website. Link in our bio 🔗
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