In the morning, after your work area is set up and you’ve got fresh coffee oils running through the group heads and group handles, the next stop on your journey to serving magic coffees to your weary-eyed, caffeine deficient customers is the grinder.
Grinders Coffee is introducing new packaging with a simple design and better colour cues to differentiate its blends. Its new-look bag also features flavour descriptors at the top, and, of course, it still has the freshness valve on the back.
In addition, Grinders is evolving its logo to a more refined, unified trademark that continues to build on the strength Grinders has as a Melbourne-based coffee roaster.
Grinders is also updating its coffee names to more modern names that reflect what’s in the bag. Its Brazil blend will be renamed Classic, Crema to Foundation, and Organic to Source.
For more information, visit www.grinderscoffee.com.au
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The competitions will take place from 10 to 14 April at the Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston, United States. Due to the rapidly approaching date of the expo, WCE says the rules and regulations will be the same as the 2018 rules, with some very minor logistical clarifications.
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