"There was no movement there. We were the movement." (English
episode) When a friend took me to Bonanza Coffee on Berlin's
buzzing Oderberger Strasse back in 2006, I felt disturbed and
suspicious about the whole thing. This had nothing to do with my
beloved old-fashioned Italian-style espresso places where I'd
usually have a cup of the dark, bitter drink. It took me years to
understand this new kind of coffee, to taste, to smell, and
appreciate the whole complex flavor and aroma profile; to accept
that an old tradition was taken in the hands of a bunch of young
people to experiment and to create something different with the
good old coffee bean that's been a part of our culinary heritage
since at least the 15th century. Young Kiduk Reus, one of the
founders of Bonanza, was one of those kids - curious, brave, and
fearless, and ready for a new chapter in his life. After studying
design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and at the
Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam, after successfully working
in the advertising industry, he felt that Berlin was calling his
name in 2004. He packed his bags, the vague idea of starting a
speciality coffee shop at the back of his mind. That was the
beginning of a time that would later become known as the worldwide
Third Wave Coffee Movement. Born in Seoul, South Korea, adopted at
the age of 4 by an American mother and a Dutch father, Kiduk grew
up in the Netherlands in a town famous for cheese, in Gouda. Food
played an important role. He remembers being a picky child knowing
exactly what he wanted to eat and what he didn't. His palate was
already refined, a skill that would come in handy later in his
life. In the following years, Kiduk learned what would become a
mantra in his life: I need this, it needs to be better, I improve
it. And then, miraculously (or not), other people pick up on it.
Understanding that he has to be the motor to bring movement to his
ideas, he always had the soul of an entrepreneur. Not waiting for
others to come up with something great or to improve something
existing, he jumped in first to create what he needed to move on
and fulfill his mission. So when he started the first Bonanza
coffee shop together with his partner he knew he wanted to roast
his own beans as soon as possible to simply reach and keep the
quality that he had in mind. Coincidentally, Kiduk noticed that
some old cast-iron equipment - stored in an old airplane hangar by
a friend of his and that he had access to - was the best possible
equipment for roasting coffee beans. So he jumped on the occasion
and spontaneously started a business that would in the end finance
Bonanza for a long time. He bought the old parts and machines,
added new parts to make them work even better, and became the
Berlin man to supply roasting machines to all the big names in the
speciality coffee roasting business worldwide. Blue Bottle, Seven
Seeds, and about another 250 coffee roasters went to Kiduk Reus'
workshop and got their vintage equipment, customized by Kiduk
himself and his growing team of mechanics. Kiduk says he listens to
his mind more than to his feeling. His intuition is definitely
absolutely reliable. Many of his decisions seem random at first but
then turn into something great. For this podcast episode, Kiduk
teaches me how to make the perfect hand-brewed coffee. You can find
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