St Ali

Throughout the rest of the year our cuppings will grow( look out for our new cupping room). We are looking at being registered Q-cuppers by the end of the year and have our own coffeelab.

I think we will be focussing on education and study as well as keeping up our focus on single origin coffees

the news.....

Our recent trip overseas was to source another roaster for St Ali. Capacity has increased and will increase with the change over. So we have purchased a 15 kilo renegade for St Ali. Computer controlled profiling with the fully manual mode and the ability  pretty much change drum speed, airflow etc etc really sold it for us. We have been getting some great results with the 5 k and hope it transforms straight onto the 15.

WBC go Dave!

All the best for the qualifying and finals Dave, we will have our fingers crossed. It would be great to see Australia bring the title home. So most of the focus is on Copenhagen at the moment, but just to keep it real, we will be having some of the coffees David is using on as Single Origins over the next few days. Some big news next week, can't really let the cat out of the bag yet. 

Coffees try the natural El Salvador, its a winner. The Pacamara as well is great. We will be having a few interesting brazils on as well.

Probat and Europe

Here I am making the pilgrimage to Probat, thanks Antje for showing us around. Looked at the new Probat shop roasters which look pretty sweet as well. So we checked out some roaster guys who are rebuilding and reworking some roasters over in Belgium and the Netherlands, all doing great stuff. 

Cupping this week is an El Salvador selection which is outstanding. 5 different El Salvadors that are really in a class of their own.

15 K roaster and on the road

Well it has been a busy couple of weeks, all the best David and Con. Habib great work and hopefully next year, ripped off.... So lots of interest in the cupping on Saturdays and hoping that it will continue. Currently on the road looking at securing a roaster. Attached is the new renegade 15k which does look pretty sweet, over engineered as usual. Caught up with Deaton in L.A., doing great work and putting in the hours and looking forward to Copenhagen. Thanks dude and all the best. Check out deatons blog for all the lead up to the big event etc. Its on our links page I think.

Also great to see Emily from Cafe Imports out here, thanks Em...

Back...... from the SCAA

A big thank you to all who helped the "kids" when they were over in the states. Bridget and Justin had a great time, perhaps too much of a good time even. Rueben and Russ were well looked after also. So thanks to Emily, David, Deaton and Skip. Look forward to returning the favour. Attached photos give a fairly good run down of events.

Ok a bit on the go at the moment, we are looking for a new roaster, and will be looking at a few changes to the layout at ST Ali. BBB is changing a little as well, we have secured the last clover on sale in Australia. Bridget caught up with Coeqco while in the USA and did a technicians course. As well as having a good look over the clover manufacturing line. And that Rwandan golden cup through the clover as well as through the espresso machine, coffee of the year so far..Congrats to Kyle as well... 

Post Barista champs....whoa the head

Ok the fog has cleared slightly and we have less people timing our shots now.... Wow what a weekend,  Congrats to all the competitors, the standard was fantastic, which makes Davids win a real highlight. Look out rest of the world. Thanks to everyone who attended Saturday night, it was a great night. On the other side of the world Bridget and Justin have been attending the SCAA conference in Minneapolis, lots of socializing, lectures and labs. Prior to the SCAA it was the Agtron course in Reno Nevada. Anyway they currently in Seattle with our friends at Coeqco, (David you are a bad influence), Synesso and checking the coffee scene. 

It's the season for baristas to be a little edgy, 5 days until we know the 2008 Australian Barista Champ. We are holding a little gathering on the Saturday night, 7.30 onwards for those in town.  Some refreshments and light snacks will be on hand as well as a little smackdown action. So come along. Also check our list over the next few days, we will let some of the CoE coffees come up on both the clover and espresso machines to try.

Look out for the Da Grama through the synesso and the La Montana clover style.

reporting in.......Anzac day

We are closed in the city today, will reopen tomorrow. We have just kissed Justin and Bridget goodbye on their trip to the USA. The Agtron course, then to Cafe imports, Scaa, Seattle and Portland. And maybe a little time with Deaton in LA. Ok we are truly stocked up, we now have a green bean store off site in a basement and we are currently rebagging all our coffee. Tomorrows cupping is going to contain a few recent arrivals so it should be interesting, 2pm if interested.

Everything is coming into new crop pretty much, so it is a fine old time.