r/AustralianCoffee

Hi everyone! I would like to know what is the best coffee bean to use for an aeropress? I prefer strong/dark roasts. Thank you so much!

Hello - I am new to expensive coffee machine, I have worked in cafes before but I never owned a decent one (moka and cheap ones a part).

I am looking to get a coffee machine, and a lot have suggested this Breville. I believe in recycling and buying less, but I wanted some expert opinions. Is it worth buying second hand when it comes to expensive coffee machine or best to buy new?

I've got a pour over setup and have been buying 5L jugs of deminieralised water from Coles and mixing in Third Wave Water.

Coles has since discontinued the 5L jugs (only 2L available now) and because I shop at Aldi, am wondering whether I should swap to their spring water. Any thoughts or alternatives?

I’m on the Sunshine Coast and I’m looking to upgrade my BBE to a high end machine, possibly a La Marzocco.

From what I can see I may not need multistage filtering to meet their water requirements. I am looking to install a BWT Bestmax Premium filter under the kitchen sink into a 3 way faucet as I don’t want to drill through an engineered stone benchtop to plumb the machine in.

Does anyone have a similar setup or went with something different and could comment if they had any regrets?

By strong I mean a bean with a bit of kick and caffeine not like a dark roast which is more flavour. Most organic beans are mild and for soccer fans. I want a full body kick in the nuts no vag man brew.

Hello Australians.

I've recently been to Passport Specialty coffee roaster's event. They had very nice coffees for me to sit down and try (for a sum of pay of course). Is this a common thing for roasters to do? I am hoping to find more events like this where I can see other people who love special coffees. The filter coffee festival at Passport was so cool! I dont have any coffee enthusiasts in my social group so it was interesting to see so many people lining up for the event.

Hey there! For context I’ve got a delonghi la specialista Arte coffee machine that I purchased a couple of years ago and it’s fine and convenient for milk based coffees when I use dark roast beans but kind of struggles with light and medium roast beans.

If I were to consider an upgrade (max budget $1500 for a machine), which one do I go with? Do I even upgrade my machine if typically I’ll be making a maximum of two to three beverages per day?

Thank you for your thoughts!

After over eight, nearly nine months of discussions, trial and error, back and forths and countless late nights, Brewly finally hit $1,000 of revenue!

The model means we needed to source both sides of the equation, cafes and customers and after going more or less door to door for months, we had enough cafes to launch and got our feet in the door.

Brewly allows consumers to purchase coffee in bundles up front, at a discounted rate.

So as you can imagine, we heard all the rejections under the sun for not wanting to be on Brewly. "Our customers won't want to pay up front", "we already do loyalty cards", "we have no reason to get any new customers", "customers don't like apps", and the rest of them.

While we had a good rebuttal for all of these, sometimes it is not meant to be with cafe owners.

We went live two weeks ago and are now up to over 250 accounts with over 100 of them being paying customers!

Hoping this is the beginning of bigger things and as they always say - the first $1,000 is the hardest!

If you’re in Sydney what are some local coffee roasters you recommend? I’ve just bought a Breville oracle dual boiler.
I know I shouldn’t buy in bulk but if I’m making 2 coffees daily - minimum.. how much beans should I keep on hand? Previously buying cafe coffee daily so new to cafe coffee at home.

This is probably a very silly question, so bear with me 😅

I recently bought a Breville Oracle Dual Boiler. Hasn’t arrived yet. It’s on order. Yes, I know, quite the splurge for someone who doesn’t really know much about coffee yet 😂

My husband and I have been buying a café coffee every morning for years. Usually it’s from Maccas — and before anyone comes for me, our local Maccas is ridiculously busy in the mornings and actually has some very good baristas! My husband will also usually have another coffee or two throughout the day from different cafés.
Now that I’ve bought a proper machine, I’m realising I actually have no idea what type of coffee I like.

How do you work out what flavour profile you prefer when choosing beans? Dark vs medium roast, chocolatey/nutty/caramel vs fruity, acidity, strength, etc.?

I know what I like when I taste it, but I wouldn’t have a clue how to describe why I like it or what I should be looking for on a bag of beans.

For reference, I generally enjoy the Maccas blend and your typical Sydney café-style coffee. I’m not necessarily trying to replicate Maccas exactly — I just want to figure out what my preferences actually are so I can start buying good beans and make the most of the machine.

How did you guys figure out what kind of coffee you actually like? Is it just a matter of buying different beans and experimenting, or is there a better way to narrow it down?

I’m looking for some new coffee cups. Using Huskee at the moment but looking to replace them with nicer handle-less cups to use at home.

Only 2 criteria are:
- no handles
- dishwasher safe

Hi everyone! About to buy a reusable cup for iced lattes and just wanted to get an idea of whether most cafes use a 12oz to-go cup for iced drinks or a 16oz? Thanks!