Audun Coffee

Audun Coffee is a specialty roaster founded in December 2014 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, by Audun Sørbotten, a Norwegian-born roaster who holds the 2015 World Coffee Roasting Championship title. The operation is built around sourcing small lots from individual farms or tightly defined farmer groups — the kind of micro-selections that rarely reach retail channels outside of specialty wholesale.

Sørbotten spent seven years at Solberg & Hansen in Oslo (2006–2013), one of Norway's most established specialty roasters and importers, before relocating to Poland and launching Audun Coffee at the end of 2014. The move planted a Scandinavian-trained sensibility in central Poland, where the roastery has grown through wholesale and online retail rather than a traditional café footprint. Co-roaster Mateusz Karczewski trained fully at Audun Coffee and went on to win the Polish Roasting Competition in 2019, finishing third at the World Coffee Roasting Competition that same year in Taipei.

The roastery runs a Probatone 12 drum roaster from 2014 as its primary machine, with a Stronghold S7 Pro reserved for the most exclusive lots. Sourcing leans direct: Sørbotten prioritizes paying above certification-program rates in exchange for access to small, high-scoring harvests chosen strictly on cup quality. The lineup splits between filter-oriented coffees and espresso, sold wholesale to cafés and resellers, with individual consumers directed to Coffeedesk.com.