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New for Caffè Culture 2026
Discovery Village
Get hands-on with the products, ideas and innovations shaping the future of coffee and hospitality. Meet the people behind them, try something new and follow your curiosity.
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A new way to explore
Fresh ideas.
First-hand experiences.
Discovery Village is a new dedicated experience feature showcasing innovative businesses from across the coffee and café-bar industry. Meet leading brands and explore emerging products, fresh ideas and new solutions shaping the future of hospitality.
Across two days of live demonstrations, tastings and interactive sessions, discover what’s new and experience it for yourself.
- Meet The people behind emerging brands.
- Experience New products and solutions first-hand.
- Discover Fresh opportunities for your business.
- Take part In tastings, demonstrations and sessions.
What to expect
Come curious.
Leave inspired.
Follow a cacao tasting journey, put your coffee senses to the test and meet businesses bringing fresh perspectives to the industry. There’s plenty to get involved in.
Interactive sessions
Get involved, ask questions and explore products through hands-on activities.
Live tastings
Explore origins, compare flavours and discover what shapes every cup.
Emerging brands
Meet the businesses bringing new products and fresh thinking to hospitality.
New ideas in action
See new solutions first-hand and find inspiration to take back to your café.
Kindred Forest
Cacao Journey
From forest to cup: an interactive tasting trail through cacao’s transformation.
Across two days, explore hands-on tasting sessions from the raw cacao fruit to the finished bar or cup of hot chocolate. Discover how origin and terroir, fermentation, roasting and sweetener choice shape flavour.
Drop in for one session or follow the whole journey, and discover new recipes and ideas to use in your café.
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Drop in for one. Follow the whole journey.
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From Bean to Cup: Origins & Journey
Discover cacao from forest to cup. This immersive tasting takes you through cacao’s origins and varieties, then follows one bean’s full transformation: from roasted nib to cocoa mass to tempered chocolate, before finishing with a taste of hot chocolate from different regions of Colombia. A hands-on, multi-sensory introduction to where chocolate really comes from.
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Ceremonial Cacao
Slow down and experience cacao the way it’s been enjoyed for centuries. Sip a 100% cacao drink, personalise it with your choice of spices, and take a moment of mindful reflection with words of intention. A calm, sensory pause amidst the show.
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Guess the %
Put your palate to the test. Taste a range of chocolates from different origins and cacao percentages, then guess which is which. The closest guess wins a chocolate bar. Along the way, discover how fermentation alone can transform the flavour of chocolate made from the exact same bean.
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Coffee & Chocolate Pairing
Two of the world’s favourite flavours, together at last. Explore expertly matched pairings of coffee and chocolate, and discover how the right combination can unlock entirely new layers of taste in both.
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Beyond Cane
Sugar isn’t just sugar. Taste chocolate drinks made with cane, coconut and arenga sugar side by side, and discover how each sweetener changes the flavour completely. Then try a surprise drink made with rare, forest-grown arenga sugar for a taste of something new.
Gramos Coffee Roasters
Discover coffee through your senses
- Taste
- Smell
- Sight
- Touch
Join Gramos Coffee Roasters for a hands-on coffee experience exploring the role that taste, smell, sight and touch all play in how we experience coffee. Take part in interactive activities, from guessing coffee origins and identifying aromas to comparing textures and learning how different coffees look.
With prizes to be won and plenty of opportunities to ask questions, it’s a fun, welcoming space to discover something new or put your existing coffee knowledge to the test.
Created in collaboration with SCA Trainer and Q Instructor Julian Loayza, each session is designed to inspire curiosity, conversation and a deeper appreciation of great coffee.
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SheTrades · Rwanda
Meet five women-led businesses from Rwanda
Discovery Village will also showcase five women-led Rwandan businesses through SheTrades, giving visitors the opportunity to discover new producers, products and businesses from Rwanda.
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Rwanda
Nyamurinda Coffee Growers Ltd
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Rwanda
Generalities Ltd
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Rwanda
Convinient Gneral Business Ltd (Rixu Coffee)
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Rwanda
Kinunu Agroprocessing Ltd
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Rwanda
Kalisimbi Kiwieds Coffee / Dallas Investments LTD
Visitor registration
Experience Discovery Village at Caffè Culture 2026
Access to Discovery Village and its live demonstrations, tastings and interactive sessions is included with your free trade visitor pass.