August 2018

St Ali

ST. ALi returns to MICE in 2019

The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) has announced that ST. ALi will make a comeback to the latest dedicated event in the Southern Hemisphere, as the event’s official Providore Sponsor.

“ST. ALi had a temporary reprieve from MICE while it focused on building strong foundations in its roastery facility, in our personel and at origin, and now we’re back to spread a message,” ST. ALi Founder Salvatore Malatesta says.

“We hope that we can improve the culinary landscape of convention centres by bringing a little bit of magic from the ST. ALi laneway to the show.”
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BizPhone

For small businesses needing to contact suppliers for bulk food and coffee orders or chase payments, Australian internet provider service iiNet believes it’s developed the best value business phone – BizPhone.
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Velvet

Grant Muir is a saviour to the local tradies of Sorell. He’s up at 4am each day to open the doors to Velvet at 5am, ready to provide the mass of early risers with their first – and much needed – caffeine fix of the day. “The traffic going into the city is so bad that lots of rural residents try to beat the rush and leave for work earlier,” Grant says.
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CQI’s Mario Fernández on myth busting

Coffee Quality Institute’s Technical Director Mario Fernández is determined to bring coffee processing into the forefront of flavour control, but warns it comes with full responsibility.

Mario Fernández has a growing list of more than 50 problems, but his determination is not one. Rather, his spreadsheet of issues consist of common coffee processing myths he says are simply rumours that have circulated like a bad case of Chinese whispers.

For the past few years, that’s included the poor quality and mistrust of natural processed coffees, false claims about yeast fermentation and honey-processing methods, and one of Mario’s particular favourites – people preferring solar drying over mechanical drying just because it’s “more environmentally friendly”.
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World Coffee Events issues Brazil travel recommendations

World Coffee Events has released travel tips and recommendations for those attending the 2018 Brazil World Coffee Championships, taking place in Belo Horizonte from 7 to 9 November.

The event, as part of Brazil International Coffee Week, will host the World Brewers Cup, World Latte Art, World Coffee in Good Spirits, and World Cup Tasters Championships.
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Mario Fernández of CQI talks flavour development at Knowledge Talks

Mario Fernández, Technical Director at the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI), has wrapped up the 12thinstalment of Toby’s Estate’s Knowledge Talks.

Mario travelled to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne from 23 to 28 August, talking to audience members about different processing methods, microbial inoculation in coffee fermentation, the development of fruity characteristics in natural coffees, and CQI’s Q Processing program.

In his first visit to Australia, Mario challenged audience perspectives on how different processing methods affect the chemical composition of coffee.
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