We go to places so remote or overlooked that no one else wants to deal with them. We're not chasing the most famous origins or the next coffee trend. We're not bringing a farming revolution to the coffee jungles. We work with farmers who already have good products and the willpower to share their products with the world, but who have somehow got stuck in the wheels of life and need a helping hand. Their beans may not carry the prestige of Jamaica and their production might still need modernising, but that's ok. Their story, their coffee and their resilience make them Renegade.

We work to revive forgotten coffee trees and help communities on the edges of the world bring their beans to the wider world. Each cup is a quiet rebellion — keeping traditions alive, giving determined farmers another chance, and making sure their voices are finally heard.

DAGA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A TASTE OF TRUE RESILIENCE

This coffee comes from a remote mountain region in Papua New Guinea that can be reached only by a two-day hike. The coffee trees there had been largely abandoned, and whatever small harvests remained were either blended into mass-market lots or even burnt when there was no way to sell them. After decades, this coffee is finally available again under its own name.
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    RENEGADE TRAVELS

    PAPUA NEW GUINEA

    DAGA

    The story of Renegade Beans began when Hannes made a 2-day hike to reach the mountains of Daga, becoming the first European to meet the community and hear the story of their coffee.

    Read about the journey to Daga

    MADAGASCAR

    FITOVINANY

    Could Fitovinany region in Madagascar need the help of the Renegade community? We have a strong hunch that Renegade and Madagascar are a match, but will becomeit really becomes the next chapter...

    Read about our travels in Madagascar

    THIS IS NOT OUR FIRST REBELLION AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM...

    In 2017, we left our careers in management and marketing in Estonia and Lithuania to do something different—more meaningful and connected to nature. We went to Georgia on a mission to revive abandoned tea plantations and to build the most transparent tea farm out there.

    Without any prior experience or knowledge of tea, we rehabilitated 40 hectares of organic tea plantations, learned how to make award-winning teas, and built a community of more than 2000 people who now receive their yearly tea from Renegade Tea Estate.

    With our Georgian tea farm well established and increasingly taken care of by our local team members, we are ready to tell the stories of other forgotten treasures.

    Meet the team