Alchemy – superfood elixirs for lattes
Alchemy started after Michael and Gayle Bishop made a chilli-flavoured syrup for a cocktail party ...
Amazon Power – the original Acai
Acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee), is a dark purple berry that grows abundantly in the Amazon jungle ...
Brookfarm – ecofriendly & tasty
Nestled in the pretty Byron Bay hinterland, Brookfarm is a dream come true for the ...
COFFEE PLACES
Berlin coffee experiences 2011
Having heard of our forthcoming visit to Berlin earlier in the year, I got ...
Specialty cafes of Vienna
A modern coffee culture is emerging in Vienna, due in large part, to the efforts ...
Specialty coffee in Amsterdam
The Dutch have always been among the world’s greatest coffee drinkers; filter coffee, drunk black ...
COFFEE PEOPLE
Erna Knutsen, Queen of Coffee
Erna Knutsen worked in coffee longer than anyone I know. She retired in 2015 at ...
Reg Barber, tamps & trophies
Reg Barber is the design genius who invented tampers as we know them today. Before ...
COFFEE KNOWLEDGE
Cafe Brûlot in New Orleans
For any coffee lover, a trip to New Orleans wouldn’t be complete without the experience ...
Cascara, coffee berry fruit
Cascara as we most commonly know it, is an infusion made from the dried outer ...
Coffee in different languages
The English word for ‘coffee’ made its appearance some time in the 1600s – shortly ...
COFFEE HISTORY
20 Years of WBC – an Australian perspective
It’s 2020 and the World Barista Championship is 20 years old! So it’s timely to ...
Coffee History in Boston
In Boston for the 2013 SCAA Expo, we caught up with our friend Summer Lewis, ...
Early Cafes of Paris
Seventeenth century cafes The earliest story of selling coffee in Paris dates from 1671, when ...
COFFEE EVENTS
2010 Golden Bean in Port Macquarie
When I started out in the coffee industry, I was amazed at how fiercely competitive ...
2011 Become a Barista – Brisbane
The inaugural Become a Barista competition for Australian school students kicked off with participants from ...
2011 Golden Bean in Caloundra
Imagine 1,206 delicious coffees to taste in 3 days. In its 6th year, the Golden ...