OUR STORY

"What the hell is a RIPSNORTER"

We hear that all the time. The first time the word hit our ears, we were living and working in Melbourne, the coffee capital of the world. Down there, when something blows your mind, when it’s truly epic, people say: “that’s a bloody ripper”… or simply: a Ripsnorter.

It began with curiosity!

When we came back from Australia, we wanted to bring a little piece of Melbourne home with us. So we opened a café in Rotterdam and started brewing coffee. Lots of coffee. Hundreds of cups later, curiosity got the better of us. What actually happens when you roast coffee? Why does one tiny change make something taste completely different? What happens if you push it a little further? So we started roasting.And that is when we realised something. Every answer gives you ten new questions. Every discovery opens another door. The more we learned, the more we wanted to know.

That curiosity is still what drives Ripsnorter today.

We keep asking questions. We keep experimenting. We keep imagining what coffee could be, rather than just accepting what it already is.

That means working with producers, importers and people who are just as obsessed with quality as we are. From finding coffees that excite us, to roasting them, brewing them and figuring out how best to tell their story, every step is another opportunity to explore.

Great coffee is not about reaching the end. It is about seeing how much further we can go.

The roastery became our playground. A place to experiment with flavour, push ideas around and see what coffee could become. Then we started thinking beyond the cup.How do you package that feeling? How do you turn a great coffee into an experience people actually remember? That question became the beginning of the Ripsnorter brand as we know it today. The characters, the stories, the packaging, the way we talk about coffee. It all became another part of the playground.And just like the coffee, it is never really finished.We are still exploring, still experimenting and still finding new ways to make every Ripsnorter experience something worth remembering.

Then we opened our espresso bar.

This became the place where we could really push the boundaries of how you experience the coffees we roast.

With our Origins collection, we keep things simple and familiar. Great coffee, served the way you would expect it, creating a comfortable everyday experience. Then there is the Bloody Ripper menu. This is where we get to play. Competition style coffees, unusual techniques and ideas that take the experience somewhere completely different. Two sides of Ripsnorter. One you can come back to every day, and one that shows you just how far coffee can go.