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Product Innovation Awards

MICE2019 announces Product Innovation Awards finalists

There’s just one week to go until the coffee industry unites to celebrate all things coffee at the 2019 Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE). Australia’s largest dedicated coffee event, taking place from 7 to 9 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, will shine a light on the country’s booming coffee industry, and highlight the best of what Australia has to offer the rest of the world.
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Christmas campaign

MICE announces 2019 Christmas Campaign

The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) will hold the MICE2019 Christmas Campaign from 3 to 7 December 2018. The giveaway will involve products from exhibitors such as Rancilio, Puretec, Kuvings, Barista Technology, Chai Spice, Porter Green, Freedom Foods, Vertue Coffee, The Bag Broker, Coffee Supreme, and Moccamaster Australia. 
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Puretec’s Balance+ series

The role of water when creating coffee is to extract flavour compounds from the bean. Ideally, brewing coffee collects appetising compounds and leaves behind the unpleasant ones. Calcium, magnesium, and carbonate play an important role in enhancing and muting flavours derived from coffee grounds. 
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Puretec perfecting water

When it comes to achieving the perfect water recipe to complement coffee, it’s a careful balancing act. Mineral concentrates, chlorine, and alkaline have a large impact on the taste profile of the water and overall coffee outcome depending on which state of Australia you live.  Over the past few years, the coffee industry has seen a large uptake in filtration systems to help purify the water responsible for extracting flavour compounds from beans. This includes reverse osmosis and ion exchange systems that extract ‘the nasties’. But more often than not, Puretec National Food Service Account Manager Simon Read says it comes with compromise.  “Filtration models are typically a double-edged sword. It’s a balance between looking after your customers and producing a great-tasting coffee, or protecting your equipment – it’s one or the other, and that to us, it is not good enough,” Simon says. 
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