360 Accounting Services Founder Parikshit Kikla will host a Bean Profitable webinar on 6 December at 3:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
In the webinar, Parikshit will discuss how café owners can maximise their profits and manage their payroll during the holiday season.
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La Marzocco Local to visit Sydney
La Marzocco will host its Local event in Sydney from 6pm on 6 December.
The event will include coffee, music, drinks, and snacks with other members of the Australian coffee industry.
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Vicky Chuaybamrung of Mary Street Bakery wins Breezey Masters Grand Final
Vicky Chuaybamrung of Mary Street Bakery in Perth was crowned the first ever female Breezey Masters Champion at the Grounds of Alexandria in Sydney on 13 November.
Ben Lewis of Coffee Lab in the United Kingdom placed second and Matt Sharp of Highroad/Ona Coffee in Canberra placed third in the latte art competition.
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Nespresso to use world’s first responsibly sourced aluminium in coffee capsules
Mining corporation Rio Tinto has announced that Nespresso will become the first company in the world to use responsibly-sourced aluminium to produce its coffee capsules.
The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together with Nespresso’s capsule manufacturers to fulfil a commitment of sourcing 100 per cent sustainable aluminium by 2020, allowing customers to enjoy their coffee knowing it is packaged in responsibly produced material.
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MilkLab Barista Battle Series winner Victor Vu visits origin
Victor Vu has a talent for latte art. He’s used to thrilling large audiences with his original designs and creative abstract patterns.
He proved his skill when he won the MilkLab Barista Battle Series final at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo in March. He crafted three designs using MilkLab’s range of alternative milks: soy milk, macadamia milk, and lactose-free milk.
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Proteins with purpose: why milk curdles and how to avoid it
If you regularly make soy coffees for your customers, you have probably noticed that soy milk is often harder to work with than dairy milk – it tends to curdle more in coffee, especially when steaming hot. With some coffees it behaves well, with some it doesn’t.
The delicate protein structures in milk are to blame for the curdling effect.
Proteins are long, folded chains of amino acids. Humans only use about 20 different amino acids, and they can be linked after one another in any order. Most proteins contain hundreds of them.
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Third Time Lucky
Despite winning the Australian Brewers Cup Championship, Third Time Lucky Co-owner Heath Dalziel has kept himself grounded.
“Adelaide has a way of humbling you I guess,” he says. “But it’s great to have people come from interstate or overseas who have made a point to check out the café.”
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Bentwood Café wins Best Café Design at Eat Drink Design Awards
Bentwood Café in Fitzroy, Melbourne has claimed this year’s award for Best Cafe Design at the 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards, held at Melbourne’s Luminare on 13 November.
The Eat Drink Design Awards says the Ritz & Ghougassian-designed Bentwood Café embraces its heritage roots, balancing the tension between its warm red brick interior with modern clean lines and consistent colour palette.
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McCafé wins Monin Coffee Chain Challenge 2018
McCafé has won the 2018 Monin Coffee Chain Challenge, held at Luna Park Sydney on 9 November.
Jamaica Blue placed second and Velocity Espresso and Bar placed third out of the five competing teams.
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NSW Government funds coffee cup recycling program
Coffee cup recycler Closed Loop Environmental Solutions has received $115,000 in funding from the New South Wales State Government to expand its Simply Cups recycling program.
Simply Cups aims to divert 11 million cups, approximately 110 tonnes, from landfill within a year and turn them into bench seats, kerbing, and car parking stoppers.
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