As the largest coffee event in a region obsessed with getting the most out of the brewed bean, the 2019 edition of the Melbourne International Coffee Expo was not getting any smaller.
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As the largest coffee event in a region obsessed with getting the most out of the brewed bean, the 2019 edition of the Melbourne International Coffee Expo was not getting any smaller.
Welcoming us into the Australian office, Mark Howard, customer relations specialistt of Caravela coffee, noted, “We're very much an origin based company.”
What do you do when you know a country produces good coffee, but the coffee from that country is exported as a high-volume, low value product? That was the question that faced Tercio Borba, when he came to Australia from Brazil.
Cafes and community are often talked about together. Whether it is providing a meeting point for locals, or a piece of infrastructure that is as vital as a library, the best cafes are those that are enmeshed in their local surroundings.
Two decades ago, Kenyan coffee farmers armed themselves with bows and arrows and marched on the offices and factories of the companies that process and export their beans. Fed up with low prices for their crop and and complex credit system that tied them into relationships of debt and dependency, the farmers had had enough.
If you do one thing, do it well, would have to be the motto of Dan Yee, co-founder of Artificer coffee in Surry Hills. Taking an only coffee approach to the competitive café market in inner Sydney, marks out Artificer as a an outfit dedicated to their craft.