Belgium’s BOO Modern Coffee Co. won the 2026 World Coffee Roasting Championship on June 27 in Brussels, with co-founder Benjamin Brassart taking the title to become Belgium’s first world coffee roasting champion.
The Coffee
BOO Modern Coffee Co. is a specialty roastery founded in 2024 in Anderlecht, Brussels by Benjamin Brassart and his co-founder Benoit. In the two years since opening, BOO has developed a lineup of specialty coffees sourced from committed producers across origins, offered as single origins and blends for espresso and filter.
The World Coffee Roasting Championship supplies all competitors with identical standardized green lots, so the coffees Brassart roasted in Brussels were not BOO’s own sourced product. His commercial range is where you find his sourcing and roasting philosophy applied to coffees he has chosen and developed himself.
Where to Buy
BOO Modern Coffee Co. ships within Belgium and Europe. Their full range is available through their online shop.
The Win
The World Coffee Roasting Championship (WCRC) is the most prestigious roasting competition in specialty coffee, organized by the World Coffee Championships (WCC) and held each June alongside the World of Coffee trade show. Competitors are the national roasting champion from each participating country. Each roaster produces a single origin coffee and a blend from three different provided green coffees, then submits both for blind evaluation by certified judges, who score the sensory quality of each roast alongside how accurately the competitor executed their own planned roast targets. Because all competitors work with the same supplied coffees, the result measures pure roasting judgment.
Brassart earned his place in Brussels after winning Belgium’s inaugural national coffee roasting championship in 2025, making him the country’s first-ever national roasting champion. The 2026 WCRC ran June 25–27 as part of World of Coffee Brussels. EspressoDrop previewed the full Brussels championships in our June 2026 WCC preview.