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Coffee without the gatekeeping. From the people who roast it.
We supply over 100 cafes across Perth. We roast thousands of kilos a month. And we reckon everything we've learned should be yours too.
No tasting notes you need a degree to decode. No equipment snobbery. Just straight-up coffee knowledge from the production floor to your kitchen bench.
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Pour Over at Home: The V60 Recipe We Use at the Roastery
The Cleanest Cup You Can Make at Home Pour over coffee has a reputation problem. The slow pouring, the fancy kettle, the barista taking four minutes to make one cup. It looks like coffee showing off. Here's the truth. It's...
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The AeroPress Is the Best $50 You'll Spend
Fifty Bucks. Better Than Your Machine. There's a plastic tube that costs about $50 and makes better coffee than machines ten times its price. It fits in a backpack. It cleans up in ten seconds. It's basically indestructible. It's called...
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How to Make Cold Brew at Home
Cold Brew Is Not Iced Coffee Let's kill this one right now because it comes up every single summer. Cold brew and iced coffee are not the same thing. Not even close. Iced coffee is hot-brewed coffee poured over ice....
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Why Your Kettle Matters More Than You Think
Your Kettle Is Sabotaging Your Coffee You could have the best beans on the planet, a $400 grinder, and a recipe dialled to perfection. If your kettle is dumping boiling water straight onto the grounds, you're burning your coffee every...
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The Plunger Is Underrated
The Workhorse Nobody Talks About Here's something most people don't know. The majority of cafes we supply keep a plunger out the back for staff coffee. Not a $3,000 espresso machine. A plunger. Baristas who pull 200 shots a day...
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The $30 Fix That Makes Every Cup Better
You're Guessing. That's Why It Tastes Different Every Morning. Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start making coffee at home. The beans matter. The grinder matters. But the reason your Monday cup tastes great and your Tuesday cup...
