News articles tagged with 'single origin'
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Training in paradise
We added a new dimension to our annual harvest trip to Bali this year by doing some barista training in our base town of Ubud. A speculative email to the good people at Casa Luna got the process started. With a posse of Australia’s best baristas in the group, I thought it would be great to do some training between our trips out to Kintamani to work with the growers. It kills me that so many origin countries don’t use their own coffee, and import stale product from far off Mediterranean countries.
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Single Origin Coffee Tasting at Sayers Tonight
One of our favourite WA cafés, Sayers, is hosting a Single Origin coffee tasting tonight. If you’ve never tried any Single Origin coffees or experienced a tasting, this is the event for you! For just $10, Sayers’ barista will guide you through four of their favourite Single Origin coffees, and you’ll enjoy some of Sayers’ delectable tapas.
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Cup of Excellence win
While most of the world is gearing up for late nights watching the World Cup, Jen Murray has been up until the wee hours for a far more worthy reason — Cup of Excellence coffee auctions. Jen pulled off an all nighter in a bidding war for our pick of the COE coffees — the Esperanza del Carmen Tercero Monca — La Esperanza. And she was successful!
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World Champ Serves Up Five Senses
Barista Toby Wilson at St. Hanore in Sydney’s suburb of Mosman took a weeklong break in July to represent Australia in the world 2010 Dragon Boat Championships. He has returned victorious with a gold medal!
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Colombian Coffee First Hand
Jen and Dean spent a couple weeks in Colombia during the coffee harvest earlier this year. The idea was to see firsthand what goes on behind the scenes with one of our most popular origin offerings. Jen brings us an account of their time in the Colombian Andes.
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Back in Time at Penny Farthing
Walking through the door of Penny Farthing is like stepping back in time: rustic salvaged furniture, a turntable playing all the best hits from yesteryear, and of course, the brothers in arms behind the Synesso Hydra, Trevor and Steve.
Taking the name Penny Farthing from a late great uncle who raced penny farthing bicycles in England, both Steve and Trevor, with their suspenders, side burns and a handle bar moustache, would look at home on the high perched seat of one of the big wheeled bicycles.
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Choosing the Best Coffee to Suit Your Brew Method
For most of our relatively short coffee history, Australia has worshipped at the altar of espresso coffee. Espresso has been the base for the majority of our caffeinated beverages and will continue to be the dominant player for many years to come. However, what we have started to see is a steady growth in cafes offering alternative brewing methods and this is a trend that is also starting to catch on in the home environment. With some really well designed devices like the Clever Coffee Dripper, as well as affordable domestic grinders like the Baratza range, there’s a whole gamut of new coffee options to explore.
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Big Developments at Bindoon Bakehaus
If you’re looking for something fun and relaxing to do in Perth this weekend, how about taking a small, scenic road trip to an award-winning café and bakery that’s been featured on the BBC and German television? Nestled in the stunning Chittering Valley wine region, Bindoon Bakehaus & Cafe serves up not only sweet and savoury baked goods, but also some rather outstanding coffee.
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Finally, an Affordable Home Grinder!
We are excited to introduce the Baratza grinders to Australia. In terms of home use options, they easily tick all the boxes. They are compact and easy to use, have conical burrs, and most of all, combine build quality with affordability.
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To Cafe 140, And Beyond
It’s hard to beat a gentle morning sea breeze accompanied by a world-class cup of coffee. Kristy and Alex Garbelini, owners of Cafe 140 in Bunbury know this all too well. Kristy, who trained as a chef in Perth, always wanted to have her own cafe. She decided to settle in Bunbury and opened Cafe 140 eight years ago with the help of just one other employee. Not long after that, she was able to recruit Alex, whose roots originally lie in dairy farming but has since transformed to an astonishingly good barista (it is said that he bleeds milk).
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Getting the Best Views at Bridge Room Cafe
One hour west of Melbourne is the bustling seaside city of Geelong, the gateway to the Great Ocean Road, Queenscliff, fantastic wineries and Torquay. As you would expect, people who live in Geelong have a lot to be happy about. Notably on that list is the Bridge Room Café.
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Making Sense at Balderdash
Look up Balderdash in the dictionary and you will find “nonsense, stupid or illogical talk; senseless rubbish.” Seek out Balderdash in Port Melbourne and what you’ll find is something rather the opposite — two young hospitality veterans on a mission to create a quality enterprise.
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Hmmm...that tastes like...?
I’ve just been away to a friend’s place in the country for the long weekend where I was forced to completely switch off from all things coffee.The weekend was, as much as anything, a great sensory experience. It was a weekend rich in fresh aromas (variations of smokey, ashy, herbaceous, earthy, woody) and flavours (yeasty, berry, burnt sugar). It was a time where my olfactory memory had a chance to recalibrate and ‘file’ new sensory experiences, ready for reference later on.
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The CCD in action
The Clever Coffee Dripper was considered a pretty innovative product when it was first released in Australia some six months ago. Since then it has fast become the brewing method of choice for both cafes and home brewers wishing to explore the world of black coffee.
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The Low-down at Lo Quay River Cafe
If you’re familiar with the corner of Bridge Street and Fern Road in Wilson, just south of the river in Perth, then you might have fond memories of a neighbourhood kiosk that used to exist there. It was a place where family and friends would meet up for coffee, ice cream or burgers, take in the picturesque scenery, and reaffirm the reasons why they preferred to live life in the suburbs. If you were one of those people, we have great news: the Lo Quay River Cafe has recently opened in the exact spot where that kiosk used to be. Their menu showcases the affordable favourites that existed before, and they’re proudly featuring coffee by 5 Senses.
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Why to Pay More for a Single Origin
Do you remember the days where “going out for a coffee” was a real treat? It was made more special if the cafe had the skill to whip the milk in such a way that they were able to make an Everest-like peak on their “Cap-oh-cheeeno”. Do you remember the days when we were willing to fork out our hard earned shekels for nearly anything that was made by the “Cap-oh-cheeeno” machine? Those days were awesome, but it’s probably more awesome now that those days are over.
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Dropping In to Third Wave Cafe
Port Melbourne is one of those strange Melbourne suburbs which café owners seem to have over looked for many years when hunting for that perfect location to produce amazing coffee. However it now seems to be growing into one of Melbourne’s hotspots for your daily caffeine hit.
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City Soul at Harry Joy’s Kitchen
Deep in Melbourne’s city laneways, nestled between high rise buildings, delicious aromas rise from Harry Joy’s Soul Kitchen. For those who are searching for the real Melbourne experience of city café life, you need look no further.
While Harry Joy’s stakes a claim in our city’s vibrant café scene, it also has a new edge in both its food and design. Owner Francis Placentino is already a successful café operator, and has poured his passion into creating this stylish, vintage-influenced café space. -
Sea Circus Charm
My first contact with the Sea Circus crew was a quick email with the message “to ring Charlie about a cafe in Bali.” The mention of Bali quickly piqued my interest, and I jumped on the phone. Expecting a male voice on the end of the line, I was a little surprised when Charlie actually turned out to be Charlotte! Originally from the UK, Charlie (think a curly-haired Kate Winslet) found her way to Bali via Australia, where she developed a passion for coffee after spending some time with our friends Nolan Hirte and the Proud Mary crew. Along with her business partner Josh Herdman (Hugh Jackman crossed with Chesty Bonds), Charlie decided that the Seminyak scene had an opening for an intimate, fun venue and the long, testing gestation of Sea Circus began!
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Why You Need a Barista Course
There tend to be two types of people in this world – those who openly admit that they could benefit from the excitement and vigour of a three and a half hour barista course, and of course, those who cannot. If you’ve identified with the first group, that’s great! Don’t waste your energy on another bad coffee; call your friendly Australian Barista Academy immediately for a list of the next available classes. However, if you’re thinking to yourself right now, “I already know how to make a damn good coffee at home,” then this article, my friend, is directed at you.
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Why to Charge More for a Single Origin
If you have been paying attention to trends within the specialty coffee industry, you would (or should) have noticed that there has been a growing interest by nearly everyone in Coffee-land especially consumers, in single origin or micro lot coffee. It’s hard to pin point which part of the industry is driving this trend, but in the end, the café is the coal face of this interest, sandwiched between roaster and customer. It is the café which is left shouldering the responsibility for making all these wonderful coffees accessible to the consumer.
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Unexpected Eats at Gypsey & Musquito
Finally, a café in the heart of the Bridge Road shopping district, that offers more than just your standard Bridge Road dishes. Owners Kirrily Stewart and Anna Ingle want to showcase an all-Australian menu using all-Australian produce at their first café venture, Gypsey & Musquito. Using Australian ingredients as much as possible in most of her cooking, Anna wants to bring the concept of using only local produce back into minds and the hearts of the Melbourne public.
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Coffee, Life, Zekka
I’ve always felt I could quite excel at being a lady of leisure – just ask my husband, he’ll tell you. Maybe that’s why I consider reviewing cafes to be one of the greatest perks of my job at 5 Senses Coffee. Therefore I suppose it should have come as no surprise that my first visit to Zekka left me with the feeling of utter joy and contentment. After all, it’s not often that one visit to a cafe can alter your current perspective on life.
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Gems of Araku
I’ve just come back from two weeks of intensive coffee travel in South India and now I’m finding myself completely re-thinking everything I thought I knew about Indian coffee. My trip had a twofold purpose. The first week was dedicated to the Gems of Araku cupping competition, where we focused on a non-traditional, but emerging coffee growing region in South India. Week two…
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How to Spruce up your Super Auto
Here at 5 Senses, we get a lot of questions from folks wanting to know how to get a decent cup of coffee from their super automatic coffee machines. And when duty calls, we’ve got your back. Just let it be known that we are in no way condoning this machine – it will never give you the best result in the cup. Nevertheless, we do realise that it is the most convenient, hence popular, choice for work places servicing many staff and having numerous operators. So let’s take a look at how you can make the most out of your super automatic machine.
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Drive Home and Smell the Coffee
A lot of people are deciding to do more Internet shopping these days. Whether their motivation is the value of the Aussie dollar, the convenience of shopping in their jocks, or simply the plethora of options that online shopping provides, purchasing goods on the net is hot right now, and coffee is no exception.
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Licence to Judge
My entry into the judging world at barista competitions initially came because I was sick of lugging all the competition equipment, place settings, cups and coffee across to the other side of the country as a competitor. I thought, ‘Stuff this!’ – I’ll save on the excess baggage fees and give judging a spin instead.
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Next Stop, 30 Mill
There are some cafes you visit that just make you want to stay there all day, reading a book, soaking up the winter sun and, of course, drinking great coffee. If this sounds like somewhere you need to be, then head over to 30 Mill Café in Malvern.
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Brazil — Cup of Excellence and Farm Time
I remember thinking that Colombia was a long way away — and I know Dean will agree. It is. Just getting all the way to Monseratte from Perth is an absolute mission! So as I flew over Bogota (according to my in-flight entertainment) with another five hours still to go, plus two more internal flights, I finally grasped just how far I was going and how BIG Brazil is.
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