Michael Wilson
Co-Founder & RoasterGeneral: Michael has a great interest in eating and drinking and flavours in general.
Favourite coffee: Heavily textured, slightly more acid than sweet and bitter, heaps of fruity flavours and floral notes.
Favourite preparation method: Syphon when I have the time.
Interests outside coffee: Mountains, languages, theatre, food and travel.
Something a bit different: When I was 23 I was accused of being a Jewish spy in Syria and had to escape over the border to Lebanon with my mate Aaron, the Jewish spy.
Gustavo Pardo
Co-Founder & BusinessmanGus worked for many years as a consultant for Deloitte and still does some work consulting. He is the business brain behind the coffee operation.
Megan Barker
Manager & Coffee Roaster & Scottish Barista of the year 2011General: Megan is a coffee geek. as well as a food geek.
She roasts all the single origin coffee in our Glasgow store
Favourite preparation method: Chemex and V60
Interests outside coffee: is there things to do outside of coffee?..
Something a bit different: once upon a time I hated coffee. and loved nannying.
Hans-Erik Kleive
Trade Sales & Coffee RoasterHansi is our espresso roaster. He lives in a caravan and drives a Ducati. Hansi takes a lot of pride in his work and takes care of all our trade customers. He trains the people of Scotland how to make espresso and how to dance salsa.
Niall Graham
Logistics & BaristaGeneral: Coffee geek ....into fractions of grams and coffee ratios, Vorsprung Durch Technik!
Favourite Coffee: Chemex or V60 Pourover, juicy, fruity, medium bodied, smooth acidities.... African coffees
Favourite preparation method: Probably Chemex
Interests outside coffee: guitar, books, spirituality, music, movies, travelling
Something a bit different: I am yoga teacher turned coffee geek
Todd Johnson
Manager & BaristaFavourite Coffee: blackburn estate
Favourite preparation method: v60
Interests outside coffee: good health and sex
Something a bit different: i can ride an ostrich better than you can
Lukasz Gasiorowski
Manager & BaristaLukasz is the manager at Broughton Street. There's more to him than just a great moustache. He collects cameras takes photos of beautiful women and ugly men.
Jamie Simpson
Coffee RoasterGeneral: Uses coffee to make better music and music to make better coffee.
Favourite Coffee: Kicks like an All Black, tastes like a blackberry.
Favourite preparation method: Filter, but I'm quite fickle.
Interests outside coffee: Drums
Something a bit different: Studied philosophy, thinks too much.
Dave Fraser
BaristaDave's from the North Island. He digs Waits, Gainsbourg, Bowie and thick espresso with thicker milk. Dave does owner impersonations at Gibson Street in Glasgow.
Alex Evenden
BaristaGeneral: Alex enjoys the experience you can get from one cup of coffee and wants to share that experience with everyone.
Favourite Coffee: Mellow notes..full bodied..with complimenting flavours eg..cocoa and orange..dark and fruity
Favourite preparation method: the cafetiere
Interests outside coffee: meeting new faces, seeing new places, nona's cooking, photography and the ukulele
Something a bit different: on a camping trip i once slept walked 100m from my tent and woke up in the middle of nowhere.
Philip Daly
BaristaGeneral: Philip Loves doing things which involve music or being outside in the sun.
Favourite Coffee: Low to Medium bodied noting too fruity. Something with floral and herby notes coming through it.
Favourite Preparation Method: Paper Filter cone.
Interests outside Coffee: MUSIC, surfing, Cycling, playing bass, Sounds and any kind of Outdoors stuff.
Something a bit Different: I represented Ireland in Athletics on many occasions around Europe.
Ben Cowie
BaristaBen's got a fancy video camera and is often gallavanting about the planet filming rock bands. He's also done some video docos, which can be seen on Vimeo.
Ben TD
BaristaBen's yet another muso at Gibson Street. He sings the vocal on the track accompanying the video in the header in this website. The band's called Open Swimmer and you can buy some of their music on iTunes.
