All About Mad About Beans
Meet the real humans behind Mad About Beans, and why they love this little magic bean so very much!
FOUNDER
Sven Czesla
Sven is our roaster and the creative part in the company and the one who is all mad about coffee (not just beans). Coffee is truly his passion and he could spend all day talking to you about it.
CO - FOUNDER
Sabrina Czesla
Sabrina is the one in the company that looks after the not so creative but also necessary part. Being an accountant she takes over the responsibility for all the numbers and the other things that need to be considered when having your own business.
OUR STORY
From Germany, To Melbourne, To Grovedale
Born in Germany Sven and Sabrina grow up with coffee as the normal drink to have in the morning, which you buy already grinded regularly from the supermarket. Sven’s passion for coffee started in 2012 and was proudly supported by his own rocket machine while Sabrina didn’t drink any coffee except Starbucks mixes. Moving to Melbourne in 2014 with Sabrina opened up his view and leaving his job as a project manager for renewable energy he fully immersed himself in the Melbournian coffee scene. He worked as a Barista, visited several cuppings and did trainings where possible. But that was not enough.
In 2017 he visited Lisa and Leo’s organic farm for the first time and fell in love. Lisa and Leo started an organic coffee farm from seed in Simalungun, North Sumatra, which contributes to the local development of coffee farming and wants to establish fair profit throughout the whole coffee supply chain.
A second visit was planned quickly, this time with Sabrina and a business idea was born. What if I open up my own coffee roasting business? Therefore a roaster was bought, the garage was rearranged and all sort of beans were roasted and sold by Sabrina within her teams at work.
The second visit in October 2017 sealed the deal. Sabrina was fascinated by Lisa and Leo’s organic farm and despite not drinking any coffee during her stay (as there was no soy milk) she loved what they were doing. The new business was not just roasting coffee but also helping people growing and harvesting the coffee.
Back in Melbourne numbers were crunched, things formalised and on the 15 November 2017 mad about beans was founded and the first Indonesian beans roasted.
These days we are located in Grovedale, Geelong, our roaster still the proudest asset in our garage. Our neighbours love us for the amazing smell of freshly roasted coffee beans and since COVID we partnered with likeminded coffee importers to help us making a difference to the farmers at origin. See our different coffees to understand what impact you are making by drinking those coffees.
OUR VISION
The Greater Good
We’d love to live in a world of free coffee, happy people and peace. While we know that this vision is a bit challenging,we would like to take steps into a world with a fair coffee supply chain that is accessible for everyone, in particular in our Geelong area. That means: fair margin for everyone within the chain. Everyone should be able to have a proper life with the work he/she does. And of course we’d like to bring people together. Coffee is an amazing connector, has a long history which is worth talking about and is still an element that is not fully explored yet. So let’s drink it, let’s talk about it and explore new ways of trading, dealing and consuming.
So now that you really do know the team, lets chat about why Sven is so amazing at getting the perfect flavours out of his roasts. This guy seriously knows his stuff.
OUR ROASTER
Sven's Passion Really Is Coffee
Sven really is all about being hands on for his true passion coffee. Undertaking several farm stays and working directly with the farmers in Indonesia and in Guatamela to not only see first hand how the farms work, but help them to improve their farms and learn litterally from the ground up all about tis amazing little magical bean.
Going directly to the best Sven completed THE roasting course in Germany directly at the source of one of the top notch roasting companies: Probat
LICENCED TO PROCESS (NOT KILL)
Sven Really Knows His Coffee
Undertaking Certification to Q Processing level with CQI (Coffee Quality Institute) - You really can trust that every step of the process is known and fully understaood by Sven. Including how this impacts the flavour and how the coffee should be roasted to perfection.
The Q Processing Professional is a six-day field-based course where learners deepen their theoretical knowledge of the main processing methods, learn best practices, and gain hands-on experience with a quality control system for post-harvest processing. With this content, students will begin to develop the skill sets necessary to achieve different flavor profiles through processing. The course takes place in a producing country during the harvest season, and involves lectures, team activities, applied lessons, and cuppings. It is a hands-on and collaborative learning experience fit for the practical needs of the producing side of industry. To be certified, attendees must pass both theoretical and practical tests.
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