Boncafe International, 46-year old pioneer European-style Gourmet Coffee Roaster, announces the opening of a new coffee gallery and academy in Singapore. The new learning and training facility will showcase and teach all things coffee. It officially opened its doors on February 11.

Located in the main Boncaf?roasting house at Pandan Loop, Coffee Gallery & Academy took seed as a place for one to learn about the end-to-end Coffee Journey or crop-to-cup story, as well as a facility where Boncaf?s institutional customers can come to be trained on their coffee making or barista skills. This new facility will also make available coffee appreciation and barista courses to the public to sign up for.

Being the pioneer in the coffee roasting business since 1962, Boncaf?s vision with the coffee gallery and academy was to promote the coffee story to all who love and partake of this brew everyday of their lives!

"We are launching this learning and training facility because we have always had the passion in the company to be good at what we do", says Christian W. Huber, managing director of Boncaf? "We would like for this new gallery and academy to hold aspirational and hopefully inspirational meaning for those who come through it, a place where they can learn and train to be good at making coffee! Just as we aim to always produce good coffee for the connoisseur, so also those who would want to learn to make a good cup!" continued Huber.

"Many coffee drinkers are clearly familiar and attached to the brew they drink every morning, or in the afternoon, but we thought it'd be interesting for coffee lovers to understand the many processes that go into the whole crop-to-cup journey before they even have that shot of espresso in the cup. After all, coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world after oil!" said Huber.

The Coffee Gallery has a green coffee section which showcases premium coffee beans that come from some of the best coffee-producing countries in the world - Latin America, Africa and Asia.

The Gallery also has a shop-floor roaster installed to demonstrate live roasting - ask any coffee aficionado and he'll tell you it's all in the freshness of the roast! - and cupping which is the process of sampling and tasting for the experts, and taste profiling.