The kukki story

“Cool, finally some warm beer!”

… said no one ever. Especially not kukki Inventor Josef “Sepp” Klemm. He was simply fed up with boring drinks and invented a drink with ice directly in the bottle: the kukki Cocktail. Pretty cool.

Sepp still fondly remembers the first cocktail sale: “That was at the Benediktbeuern Gliding Club’s air show (who doesn’t know it? 😉We had the last meter in the corner of the long bar to ourselves and the response was overwhelming."

Amazon, Apple and Google started in a garage – kukki was born in a small workshop on Sepp's parents' farm. Success was practically guaranteed. Back then, ice was crushed with a hammer to make it fit into the bottles – today, it is pressed extremely tightly using a patented process. The result: When thawed, only the cocktail becomes liquid, while the ice remains ice.

In 2013, Sepp met Saif Hamed. Both were looking for something permanent and so they founded their own company in 2014: Hallo kukki GmbH! Unfortunately, they have not been able to provide an original kukki Cocktail because it only happened two years later in August 2016.

Just like the third founder, Andy "The German" Romanowski. Andy was an old flatmate of Sepp's and completed the dream team.

Another milestone: In December 2016, the first Edeka market kukki into our product range. The official start of our groundbreaking success story (hey, we never said we were particularly modest!).

With the success, the team naturally grew, and now fifteen great people work in development, production, logistics, marketing, and the back office. Most of the time, they're surprisingly sober.

JOSEF "SEPP" KLEMM