Wega Urban

Urban is the new Wega espresso machine created especially for the Australian market.

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Brunetti Flinders Lane

Melbourne’s Italian pasticceria institution, Brunetti, has opened the doors to its new city store in Flinders Lane.

Brunetti closed its City Square store due to the Melbourne Metro Rail Project and has taken the opportunity to open another that celebrates a full dining experience and brings an “Italian wow factor” to the street. 
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Joseph Rivera to host Coffee Science Certificate seminar in Melbourne

Coffee Scientist and Q-Certification program Co-Founder Joseph Rivera will host the Coffee Science Certificate (CSC) in Melbourne from 27 to 29 March.

The course, taking place just after the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE), will discuss the overall mechanics of taste chemistry, sensory analysis, and physiochemical interactions that affect coffee. 
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Industry Beans introduces bubble coffee

Melbourne is a launch pad when it comes to experimental coffee concepts: black sesame lattes, tumeric lattes and avolattes, and now Industry Beans is serving up Melbourne’s first bubble coffee.

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Why pay more for specialty coffee?

In specialty coffee shops around the country, menu boards mark top coffee prices anywhere between $6 to $16 per cup. To the uneducated coffee consumer, it’s ludicrous. To specialty coffee professionals, it’s not enough.

Campos Coffee Founder Will Young has always paid more than the average price for his specialty coffee purchases, and has reflected that quality in cup prices. But Will doesn’t want to be among the minority paying more and charging more for specialty coffee, he wants others to join in.
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Jet Technologies on being the leader of the pack

In the past year, café owners across the country have reassessed the environmental impacts of their processes and products. For many, this has involved buying organic coffee, or a change in paper cup manufacturer or the way leftover coffee grounds are collected. But what about the packaging materials used to sell wholesale bags of beans?

“For companies that want to embody a completely sustainable ethos and reduce their carbon footprint in their operations with a clear environmental conscience, we believe Goglio’s new plant-based bio-laminate is the best way. To our knowledge, it’s the only offering of its kind on the market,” says Jet Technologies’ General Manager Daniel Malki.
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Pickle & Pie

Pickle & Pie is Wellington’s version of New York’s Katz’s Delicatessen. But rather than serving American-style filter, this new addition to Lombard Lane has upped the ante on its coffee, offering only espresso coffee.
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Morten Münchow opens minds to roasting potential

Hundreds of coffee roasters and baristas gathered across Australia last week to hear CoffeeMind Founder Morten Münchow speak about the art of coffee roasting as part of Toby’s Estate’s Knowledge Talks series.

Morten captivated and challenged the audience’s perspective around science-based roasting and the importance of training to improve one’s roasting and sensory skills.
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