Source: De Gooi- en Eemlander - www.gooieneemlander.nl

Boot Koffie was founded 50 years ago in Baarn by Jacob Boot, pioneer in Europe in the field of specialty coffee. Son Barend has been running the business since the early 1990s with just as much passion as his father.

When the door of the coffee shop on Laanstraat opens, all the warm and spicy scents of the coffee beans meet you. The walls are filled with the recognizable golden bags: "essential for recognition. In the back, between the coffee machines, owner Barend Boot sits with general manager Darja Koster who enjoy looking back at 50 years of Boot Koffie, a name that changed almost unnoticed some ten years ago after the company was called 'The Golden Coffee Box' for many years. The coffee roaster was conceived by Jacob Boot. For a long time he was director of coffee roasting company Neuteboom. Here they mixed all kinds of coffee beans together. "Also quality plantation coffees. A shame, of course," says Barend. His father was shocked that so many good beans disappeared in a blend, which meant that the flavor of some coffee beans could not be done justice. He therefore came up with the idea of a table coffee roaster. With this, people could roast their own beans at home, from one plantation. He developed the coffee roaster with...

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