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Pauls Professional

Pauls Professional announces latte art competition with prize worth $1000

Pauls Professional has opened entries to a latte art competition, to be judged at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) 2019 from 7 to 9 February, with a $1000 prize via EFTPOS gift cards. The runner-up will receive $500 worth of EFTPOS gift cards, and third place will receive $250 via EFTPOS gift cards. An Instagram Favourite will also win $250 through EFTPOS gift cards. Entries are open online via Instagram and in person at MICE. 
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coffee extinction

Sixty per cent of coffee species in danger of extinction

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the United Kingdom have revealed that 60 per cent of all wild coffee species are under threat of extinction in two papers published in Science Advances and Global Change Biology. This includes the wild relative of Coffea arabica, the world’s most widely traded coffee, which has entered The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as an Endangered species, largely due to climate change projections.
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plastic straws

Coca-Cola to stop distributing plastic straws

Coca-Cola Amatil has announced that from February, it will no longer distribute plastic straws or stirrers in Australia. Instead, the company will stock fully recyclable and biodegradable Forest Stewardship Council-accredited paper straws, sourced from suppliers BioPak and Austraw.
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coffee cups

South Australian Government considers banning takeaway coffee cups

The South Australian Government has revealed it’s considering banning takeaway coffee cups and other single-use plastic products with the release of a new discussion paper. The Turning the Tide on Single-Use Plastic Products discussion paper seeks feedback on whether the government should introduce measures to tackle a range of single-use items, including coffee cups. The paper asks whether government intervention is required for these items and in what form it could take.
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Grinders Coffee

Grinders Coffee joins Tour Down Under

Grinders Coffee Roasters has extended its relationship with the Tour Down Under, announcing a new three-year major partnership with the South Australian cycling event. “As every bike enthusiast will testify, coffee and cycling are the perfect marriage.  There’s no surer sign of a great café than a lycra-clad flock enjoying a caffeine break and a brief respite from the saddle,” said Grinders Coffee’s State Manager George Haralabakis as pre-event festivities kicked off at the City of Adelaide Tour Village.
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Bureaux Collective

Bureaux Collective to host Taste of Jakarta

The Bureaux Collective will highlight the best of the Indonesian coffee scene when it hosts Taste of: Jakarta at its Abbotsford workspace on 24 January. The event will see Indonesian representatives from Say Something Coffee, 9 Cups Coffee, Pigeonhole Coffee, Juno Coffee Company, and Morph Coffee Roasters roasting “the finest [coffee] Jakarta has to offer”.
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Ona Coffee

Ona Coffee adds carbonic maceration coffee to Raspberry Candy

Ona Coffee has announced the addition of carbonic maceration (CM) processed coffee to its signature Raspberry Candy blend. “We have been working on [CM] techniques and processing for several years with our partners at coffee farms around the world,” Ona Coffee Founder Sasa Sestic says. “Last year we saw some incredible results from several of these experimental lots from Ethiopia and we are now looking for every opportunity to share them with our customers.”
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Minas Hill Sydney

Minas Hill Coffee to hold Our Farmers, Our Heroes panel discussion

On 4 February, Minas Hill Coffee will bring together prominent people from within the coffee industry for a one-night-only panel to discuss current projects and initiatives in Brazil.  Our farmers, Our heroes: A panel discussion about sustainability, transparency and women in coffee will touch on topics ranging from the international coffee price, processing and economics to social projects, the environment, and the role of women in coffee.
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coffee prices

ICO reports sharp decline in coffee prices in December

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) has revealed that coffee prices declined 8.2 per cent in December 2018. In its 2018 market report, the ICO composite price indicator fell from 109.59 US cents (about $1.53) per pound in November to 100.61 US cents per pound in December. The daily price fell as low as 97.59 US cents per pound on 18 December.
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