In honour of V Day, a few of our café partners Stay Grounded, Espressory, The Boathouse, Left of Field, Lords of Pour & Elk Espresso have written a lil somethin' to their dream origins. We hear them. Been infatuated by special singles for years. Read on for a dose of caffeinated romance.
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Where beyond the bounds of our imagination might coffee automation take us? Comic artist Humyara Mahbub dreams up the possibilities in our fourteenth instalment of Random Acts of Art, resulting in a series of quirky cartoons that practically jump off the bag.
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What happens when competitors from 60 countries gather in Sydney for an epic showdown of AeroPress mastery? You fire up the barbeque, crank the tunes, and turn it into the sausage sizzle of the year, of course!
After winning her national title in the U.S.A and battling her way through the competition Carolina’s recipe beat out stiff competition from Belarus & China in the final to take the coveted title of 2018 World AeroPress Champion.
Starmaya is a coffee that’s stopped us in our brewing and slurping tracks and had us engrossed in genetic diversity and the future of coffee farming.
One of our all-time favourite producers, La Minita of Costa Rica, have released their first Geisha coffee. We’ve managed to get our hands on the first lot & we’re firing up the roaster on Monday!
Don’t get us wrong, we’re always happy to wash your travel cups. Whether caked in milk, or etched black as night, we don’t judge, seen it all before!
Four months ago, we embarked on our Cup of Excellence tour, which welcomed award-winning Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian coffees to our cupping tables and cafes.
Known for his loud, grinning murals, Japan-based artist yoshi47 has been on our radar for Random Acts of Art for many moons.
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Last May, we set ourselves a goal – to cut our single use cup waste in half by the end of May 2018, and one year on, the results are in. We hit 47% - a ‘most- improved-award’ worthy jump from where we started at 6%, but a bloody long way to go to 100% should we come to set ourselves that doozy of a goal.
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