Honest & Rare (Versender: Frederik Hulsch)

The Avontuur is not only the brand behind various spirits and coffee. Timbercoast, with its sailing ship Avontuur, actively promotes CO2-free and sustainable sea transport - pretty much the counter-concept to huge container ships powered by heavy oil.

As the first German sustainable cargo sailer, the Avonuur transports all kinds of beverages such as rum, grain, coffee and red wine, but also chocolate, salt and spices such as cardamom. Captain Cornelius Bockermann, commonly referred to simply as "Captain," and his team want to show that transporting goods can work without destroying the environment and emitting dangerous toxins. To that end, Cornelius launched Timbercoast in 2015, working with a number of volunteers to revamp the nearly 100-year-old Avontuur.

The coffee the Avontuur transports comes from the Cosatin Tierra Nueva cooperative in Nicaragua and is hand-roasted in Germany at the Lloyd Caffee roastery in Bremen. In addition to coffee, the Avontuur is known and loved for its rum and grain. Due to the swells on the water, the barrels are in constant motion. The mild, mellow taste of the Avontuur rums and grain are the best proof that the cargo sailor does these spirits more than good.