Coffee News Archives

Fight homelessness with CafeSmart this August

The coffee community is set to reunite once again with StreetSmart Australia’s annual CafeSmart campaign to help combat homelessness on 9 August.

Participating cafés donate $1 from every coffee sold, directly supporting smaller grassroots homeless charities.

CafeSmart aims to help break the mould of prejudice surrounding homelessness and works to support those who are at risk or are homeless.

StreetSmart has raised $5 million since commencing in 2003, personally funded 1823 projects for 605 organisations. StreetSmart Australia operates at a local level to fund critical services. These smaller organisations are embedded within local communities and need help to respond to the communities needs

This year the charity is launching a new initiative, CafeSmart in the workplace, enabling workplaces to get involved during the CafeSmart week. Workplaces can hold a bake sale, coffee morning, or ask for donations for coffee that’s usually.

CafeSmart hopes 2019 will be its biggest, record breaking year yet.

For more information visit, www.streetsmartaustralia.org/cafesmart

Lelit Victoria offers endless steam from a single boiler

The Lelit Victoria is the latest single boiler espresso machine to be developed by the prosumer coffee machine specialist based in Milan, Italy.

The Victoria includes several new features, such as an auto-fill boiler, proportional–integral–derivative temperature control, electronic pre-infusion, shot timer, and self-cleaning function. Read more

Nelson Lin of Café Central wins NT Breezey Masters

Nelson Lin of Café Central has won the 2019 Northern Territory Breezey Masters, held at Kopi Stop in Darwin in June.

Laneway Specialty Coffee’s Tricia Wong, Nikki Chen, Kit Han Tsang from Kopi Stop, and Soul Origin’s Louis Vo rounded out the top five. Read more

Nexus One wins Good Design Awards for product and engineering design

Aremde’s Nexus One espresso machine has won two categories in Australia’s Good Design Awards, in a ceremony held at The Star in New South Wales on 11 July.

The Queensland-based manufacturer’s Nexus One received accolades in the Engineering Design and Product Design categories. Read more

Sign up for The Great Coffee Pub Quiz

Bureaux Collective is hosting a coffee-themed trivia night at its Abbotsford venue on 25 July to celebrate its third anniversary.

The Great Coffee Pub Quiz will see 20 teams of six meet in a battle of the minds, where every question is about coffee and Anita Smith of Cherry Tree Hotel’s Mrs. Smith’s Trivia presides as quizmaster. Read more

World Coffee Producers Forum releases final declaration

The second World Coffee Producers Forum (WCPF) has concluded on 11 July in Campinas, Brazil with more than 1500 visitors from over 30 countries in attendance.

The WCPF declared that while its first edition raised worldwide awareness to the need for economic sustainability in global coffee supply, there has not been effective engagement from the other sectors in the value chain to improve coffee producers’ remuneration. Read more

La Marzocco Italy certified as great place to work

La Marzocco in Scarperia, Florence has been recognised, awarded, and certified as a Great Place to Work in Italy.

Great Place to Work is an international certification which examines workplace culture and management support in creating an environment where employees define their workplace as empowering and remarkable. Read more

Jeffrey D Sachs proposes global coffee fund to finance sector sustainability

Professor Jeffrey D Sachs of Columbia University has proposed the creation of a global coffee fund to co-finance the sustainability of coffee growers at the Second World Coffee Producers Forum (WCPF) in Brazil on 10 July.

This fund, which would be US$10 billion (about $14.3 billion) per year, would be initially fed with US$2.5 billion (about $3.6 billion) in resources from the industry. This would be added to public and private contributions for direct investments in farm for another US$2.5 billion, as well as budget disbursements for the and contributions from donors for the same amount. Read more

London calls for non-recyclable coffee cup ban

The London Assembly has called on the Mayor to lobby the British government to introduce a tax on single-use plastics and ban single-use, non-recyclable hot drinks cups.

The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London. The Assembly Member who proposed the motion, Léonie Cooper, says “with plastic polluting our rivers and oceans, causing terrible consequences for wildlife and our environment, we need urgent action”. Read more

Felix Chapman-Petrone wins 2019 Adelaide Breezey Masters

Felix Chapman-Petrone of Patio Coffee Roasters has won the 2019 Adelaide Breezey Masters, held at Kinetto Coffe in the CBD in June.

The final four also included Natalie Scaife of Grinders Coffee Roasters, Georgina Lumb of Veneziano Coffee Roasters, and Tang Yi of Corner Store Café. Read more