Great coffee anywhere.
After subjecting ourselves to countless cups of hotel coffee, we've had enough. We were convinced that there had to be a way to brew good coffee anywhere, when hiking, when travelling, in the car, in the boat, really anywhere. Coffee is neither heavy or bulky, and filters are completely flat. Now to that dripper... Something had to be done! This was the start of Saku Coffee, our quest to bring great coffee to anyone, anywhere.
Vilhelm von Platen & Vincent Palma
Founders of Saku Coffee
The name Saku comes from the idea that the dripper "blooms" like a flower when it is unfolded, but "Bloom Coffee" was not available for obvious reasons. But with one leg in our native Sweden and the other in Kyoto, Japan, a simple translation into Japanese gave us 「咲く」Saku, to bloom.