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Specialty coffee in Kassel: 1 checked café
Every café here is checked before it goes on the map: the roasters they pour, how they brew and what guests say after a visit.
About coffee in Kassel
To drink coffee legally in Hesse-Kassel you had to buy six pounds of raw beans at a time: merchants were not allowed to sell it roasted and ground, and green only in sacks that size. So roasting moved into people's homes, and a house where somebody is roasting coffee can be smelled all down the street. Enforcement fell to customs men, whom the people nicknamed Kaffeeriecher, coffee sniffers; they walked into parlours and looked into people's cups and pots, so more than one quiet gathering round a table ended in fear. It did not help: the ban had to be proclaimed over and over again, and years later the landgrave's successor concluded that people here were drinking even more coffee than before.
Questions about coffee in Kassel
How many specialty cafés are there in Kassel?
Specialty Atlas lists 1 checked specialty café in Kassel. Every café is checked before it goes on the map.
Is there a Coffee Passport stamp for Kassel?
Yes. Kassel has its own stamp in the Specialty Atlas Coffee Passport. You collect it by visiting a café in the city and confirming the visit in the app.