Zentrum · Leipzig

The brew bar

Everything is brewed to order at the counter, weighed to the tenth of a gram, and handed over with the recipe if you ask for it. Prices are for one cup, brewed with the coffee named on the board that day.

Kalita Wave

1 : 15.5 · 94 °C

Brewed to order, 250 ml

Kalita Wave
Single origin of the day, 16 g in, 250 ml out
€4.20
Kalita Wave — guest roasterrotating
Whatever arrived this week from another roastery
€4.90

Hario V60

1 : 16.5 · 96 °C

Brewed to order, 250 ml

Hario V60
The brighter half of the shelf, 15 g in, 250 ml out
€4.40
Filter flightfor two
Three coffees, 80 ml each, side by side on a board
€9.50

Chemex

1 : 16.0 · 95 °C

Six minutes, 600 ml, two cups

Chemex for two
38 g in, 600 ml out, carafe stays on your table
€7.80

Aeropress

1 : 14.0 · 88 °C

Steeped and pressed, 200 ml

Aeropress
14 g in, 88 °C, two-minute steep, slow press
€3.90
Aeropress, long
Pressed concentrate opened up with 120 ml hot water
€4.20

Cold Brew

1 : 12.0 · 4 °C

Drawn from the tap, 16 h steep

Cold brew
300 ml, over clear ice
€4.40
Cold brew tonic
300 ml, with Leipzig tonic and a strip of lemon peel
€5.20
Cold brew, one litre to go
Filled into your own bottle or a deposit bottle
€11.50

Batch Brew

1 : 16.5 · 93 °C

Freshly brewed every 50 minutes

Batch brew
200 ml, poured immediately
€3.20
Batch brew to go
300 ml, 50 cents off with your own cup
€3.60

Not coffee

The short list. There is no espresso machine behind this counter.

Cascara spritz
300 ml, coffee cherry husk, cold-steeped and sparkling
€4
Cardamom bun
Baked around the corner on Zentralstraße, until they run out
€3.60
Rye bread, butter, salt
Two slices. That is the whole kitchen.
€3.20
Leipzig tap water
Filtered, chilled, always on the table
€0

Every price includes the recipe card. Ask and we will write down what we did.

The room

Fourteen seats, one long window

A single room on the ground floor with a north window, an oak counter and a steel rail of drippers. No music before ten. Cash and card both work, and the tap water is free and on the table.

Monday – Friday: 08:00 – 17:00
Saturday: 09:00 – 17:00
Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00

No espresso. No cappuccino. No flat white.

We are asked around forty times a week. The honest answer is on the FAQ, and the friendly answer is that Kaffeehaus Riquet is four minutes away.

The long oak counter with glass drippers in a steel rail and window light

An unlabelled glass bottle of cold brew beside a glass of clear ice

Brew class

Saturdays, 09:00 – 11:30, before the doors open. Eight seats, four brewers, 250 g of coffee to take home.

€45

Included

01Four brew methods, brewed by you, twice each
02A calibrated grinder and scale per seat
03Water chemistry explained without a chemistry degree
04250 g bag of your choice and a written recipe