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LTD Espresso Owners name: Luke Shilling How long have you had this business? 2 years What is your café about? LTD means limited which is the concept of the shop. Limited to showcasing 3 coffees of any given time, each one of these coffee suit milk base, espresso or filter. Having our setup as a bar enables the customer to be immersed in the coffee experience. What did you do before this? More coffee haha no serious its been going on for 13 years now. Why did you get into coffee and what do you love about it? I got into...

The Golden Pig Food and Wine School Owners name: Mark and Katrina Ryan How long have you had this business? 8 years What is your café about? Great food and coffee in a funky warehouse environment. What did you do before this? Katrina taught classes at The Spirit House in Yandina, Mark was working as a building designer on the Sunshine Coast. Before that we had restaurants in Sydney called The Pig and The Olive. Why did you get into coffee and what do you love about it? It has become a daily necessity for most Australians! I also love...

Want to make filter coffee at home? Well you’re in luck, we have 2, 3 & 5cup syphons on special. Get in before they run out. http://cleanskincoffeeco.com.au/product/hario-technica-syphon-2cup-3cup-5cup/ *Offer ends 7th June 2014.

Wow, what an interesting 4 months following the Coffee Commodity markets. If you are unsure of the back story, here is a link to my opinion piece 10 weeks ago when the market sky rocketed. Click here to read the previous article As the Harvest approaches in Brazil, we are hearing more and more reports of this… Underdeveloped, and rotten beans inside of otherwise healthy looking cherries. Coffee trees are producing healthy amounts of cherries, but many are ripening very early. We will not know how many of the cherries are carrying bad beans until the harvest, which is approaching...

Geisha is a very rare and hard to grow varietal of Arabica Coffee. It is sought after for its distinct floral bouquet and delicate flavour. The variety was announced/discovered to the world at The best of Panama Auction in 2004. Hacienda La Esmeralda presented a coffee which unique characteristics amazed the judges. One of the Judges present, Willem Boot, scored it a 96 and started a personal quest to uncover the secrets of the variety. The Variety originally came from the Western province of Ethiopia, where it journeyed through Tanzania, Kenya, Costa Rica, and finally to Panama. It is an...

Easter is just around the corner and soon you will be devouring hot cross buns and easter eggs. But what about the coffee? Well we have just the thing: Hario V60 Dripper Glass 2 Cup Hario Range Server 600ml Hario Paper Filters (100) Filter coffee of choice - Saint - Old School - Full Throttle - Passport

After hearing reports on the news about coffee rising 70c per cup, I thought I had better explain a few things. The reason for all this talk is that the commodity futures price for coffee has spiked massively from $1.35/lb to $2.02/lb in the last 2 months. What this actually means. Most coffee is bought and sold on futures prices. Coffee futures is a commodity price on the NASDAQ and fluctuates like any share market. It can go up or down based on supply and demand. In 2011 we saw prices hit a record high price of over $3/lb due...

It’s hard to believe that it has been three months since we introduced our Passport blend. The seasonal blend has been introduced and scrapped numerous times over the years, but with this new release it looks like it is here to stay. I would like to share with you the process that goes into this blend development, as Passport is a very simple blend. There are a number of ways this process can be approached. Firstly is finding amazing beans that we taste and decide we have to use. We have a large number of samples come through our roastery...