OVRIDE Coffee

OVRIDE Coffee is an independent specialty roaster in Timișoara, Romania, working from a roasting site in Săcălaz. It roasts balanced coffees that suit daily brewing as well as complex, expressive microlots and experimental lots. Colombia and Ethiopia make up most of the range, with smaller selections from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Indonesia and Panama.

Coffees are chosen for how they taste in the cup and roasted every Wednesday in small batches. The roastery uses a 5 kg Typhoon machine, an electric convection roaster with fluid-bed technology. OVRIDE says this gives repeatable profiles, whether the aim is bright acidity and clear sweetness or depth and balance. Each coffee is checked at cupping and then served at the OVRIDE cafe in central Timișoara, where feedback goes back to the roastery. The catalog is grouped by cup profile: Core for balance, Discovery for fruit, Experimental for expressive lots and Reserve for rare ones.

The lineup is strongest in Colombia, followed by Ethiopia, and includes single-origin coffees plus a decaf. Examples include Popayan Reserve, a washed Colombian coffee with Castillo, Caturra, Catimor and Typica; Don Pepe Java, an anaerobic natural from Panama; Gesha Farm, a natural Ethiopian Gesha; and SAKURA Legends, a Colombian Sidra Bourbon given Culturing and Nitro treatment. Elsewhere the range covers natural coffee from El Salvador, black honey Catuai from Costa Rica, and a sugarcane decaf from Colombia.