Sibarist expands beyond filters with immersion and co-packing services

Sibarist came out of World of Coffee San Diego with a bigger ambition than another filter launch. At the Specialty Coffee Association’s North American flagship, which ran April 10-12 in San Diego and was expected to draw more than 15,000 attendees from more than 90 countries, the Spanish maker used the moment to show it wants a larger share of the brew workflow, from café service to packaged products.

The clearest signal is Sibarist Professional, a new category aimed at commercial clients. The company’s site now lists a Professional Products collection with an IMMERSION BAG READY-TO-USE offering, and its cold-brew filter page says it can make custom filter sizes and filter technologies for commercial or industrial needs. That moves Sibarist beyond selling paper for a brewer someone else designed and into business-to-business work that can cover large brew bags for overnight cold brew, tea-bag-style single-serve immersion bags for hot or cold coffee, and co-packing support for roasters that want ready-to-use formats without building that production line themselves.

The paper itself is part of the pitch. Sibarist says its HP, or High Permeability, type B technology is designed for long immersion extractions with cold water, and its Rarities HP product page calls the new paper the company’s highest-permeability filter to date. The idea is to make near-free liquid flow possible in submerged brewing, rather than the one-direction flow that defines most pourover filters. In Sibarist’s telling, that opens the door to faster flow, finer grinds and cup profiles that are harder to get from standard paper.

Sibarist is also extending that logic into hardware. The Sibarist Brewing System is a manual pourover brewer handmade in Barcelona from borosilicate glass and priced at 309.03€. The brewer uses a floating filter inside an insulated, heat-stable chamber to prevent bypass and uneven extraction, and it ships as a HALO, brewing chamber and filters set. The HALO is designed to move the filter from grinder to brew to disposal without rinsing or extra parts, while an optional Exchanger insert adjusts serving temperature. Instead of fitting its paper into existing brewers, Sibarist has built the brewer around the paper.

That strategy fits the company’s path so far. Founded in 2017 by Joaquim Morató and Lambert Guix, Sibarist first drew wider attention with FAST filters, which Daily Coffee News reported in 2021 were designed to speed flow by 15% to 40% versus other paper filters depending on recipe and technique. Morató said then that higher permeability could reduce fines clogging and give baristas more direct control over extraction. With immersion bags, co-packing services and a brewer built around its own filters, Sibarist is now trying to own more than the paper in the basket.