Our story
Everything Has Its Time!
After 7 wonderful years, it’s time for a new chapter. We’ve decided it’s the right moment to move on and find a new destination for Brander.
We are both deeply passionate about our work and we know when it’s time to seek new directions and embrace new challenges. And that’s where Tanguy from Gust Coffee Roasters comes in. When we met, we instantly connected. We share the same vision, love for coffee, and dedication to quality.
From now on, the same incredible beans you know and love will be sold by Tanguy under the Gust name.
One of our biggest goals with Brander was to share our personal style with the coffee world. Today, we’re so proud that Brander is sold and served in amazing places—and Gust will carry that legacy forward.
We’re beyond grateful for your support throughout this journey, and we know you’ll love what Gust has to offer. Here’s to new beginnings—and may your next cup, with Gust, bring you just as much joy as it did with us.
We had a dream, we made it come true, and you responded in the most incredible way! Thank you for being part of our story.
Here’s to new beginnings! ☕️
Lowie & Veerle ❤️
Whether you lean towards a sweet coffee blend, a bright, lightly roasted single origin coffee, or a funky, experimental cup, we have your favourite, no matter your coffee mood!
brander is a minimalist specialty coffee roastery founded by Lowie and Veerle in 2017. It started off as a café-cum-roastery but has become a purely roasting business as of 2023. The whole team focusses solely on sourcing and roasting outstanding coffees.
We source the finest coffees
We source handpicked coffee beans of specialty grading, preferably from micro-farms that care as much as we do about great coffee. We choose our beans for quality, cleanliness, sustainability and traceability. We only buy fresh, seasonal crops.
We work with selected partners who are engaged with the coffee community and stay close to producers, guiding them towards improving their farm and processing practices to produce higher quality coffee.
We roast to highlight the coffee’s finest qualities.
Our well-sourced coffees often surprise and delight with the sheer variety of their unique flavour profiles. We lightly roast the beans with the aim to highlight all the flavours that make the coffee distinct. Our profiles are constantly calibrated, considering the organically changing nature of green coffee. To ensure quality and freshness, we roast to order in small batches and ship directly from our roastery. We choose to open and unravel the roasting process for everyone by opening the roastery a few days a month. Feel free to pop in, say hello and taste some coffee!
Our team
We are very passionate about coffee, and we aspire to share this passion. It is the very joy of learning and gathering knowledge that drives us every day. We often gather around the cupping table, to optimize our approach. That is where we make buying and roasting decisions and where we calibrate our profiles, always with utmost quality in mind. We know our beans by heart. We value clean and bright cups, never cutting corners. Our coffee speaks for itself.
Obvious, no?
Making an effort for the planet is important to us. In recent years, sustainability has become a tremendously popular word, leading to its misusage. For us, it is a core value, and we try to uphold it in every business decision we make.
We sure are not perfect but we try and care, taking many tiny steps to reduce our footprint.