Your water is not our water
Neapolitan coffee, roasted for the water you brew it with
Three blends. Three waters. The espresso of Naples, rebuilt for a kitchen in Berlin, in Paris, in Sofia.
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The range
Three sirens, three waters
Soft water · under 8 °dH
Leucosia
For water that gives nothing back
- Cocoa
- Hazelnut
- Brown sugar
Medium water · 8–14 °dH
Parthenope
For the middle of the range
- Dark chocolate
- Toasted bread
- Dried fig
Hard water · above 14 °dH
Ligeia
For water that blunts everything
- Bergamot
- Almond
- Red fruit
Pods and capsules are compostable. Aluminium is somebody else's argument.
The problem
The bag is not the variable
90%
Your water
A shot of espresso is around ninety percent water. Everyone in this trade knows it. Almost nobody sells accordingly.
Coffee is dissolved out of the ground bean by the water passing through it, and what that water already carries decides how much comes out and which parts arrive first. Change the water and you change the cup — with the same beans, the same machine, the same hands.
Naples itself runs from 16 to 77 French degrees — the hills to the eastern edge, verified across 49 published laboratory reports. There is no such thing as Neapolitan water. If one city cannot be served by one blend, neither can a continent.
The instrument
Start with your tap, not our story
Type your city. We will show you what your water actually carries, and which of the three was built for it.
Not listed? Your water utility publishes this figure, usually under “water hardness”.
The counterweight
Every order leaves one behind
In Naples there is an old habit: you pay for two coffees and drink one. The second stays at the counter, paid for, for whoever comes in and cannot pay. It is called caffè sospeso — a suspended coffee.
It is not charity. Nobody is thanked, and nobody knows who left it. That is the point of it.
Every order placed here leaves one suspended coffee in Naples. We publish the count and we name the bars. If we ever stop publishing it, stop believing us.
Talk to us
Tell us your water and we will tell you the blend
Whether you are buying one bag or stocking a bar, write to us. Say where you are and how you brew, and you will get a straight answer — not a brochure.
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