Hudsons Coffee has named its best barista and bean team! Yijun Yuan, from the Melbourne Central store, is the National Champion of the 2011 Hudsons Coffee Barista Competition; and husband and wife team, Adam and Allison DeVries, are the Bean Team winners. After months of gruelling heats, the top three competitors from across the country [...]

Australia’s favourite top-health yoghurt brand, Vaalia, has won the prestigious ‘Best new functional dairy product’ award for its probiotic drink Vaalia Innergy at the International Dairy Federation Dairy Innovation Awards. The 2011 awards, held at the IDF World Dairy Summit in Parma, Italy, drew more than 100 entries from 25 countries. Winners were selected by [...]

Now in its second year, the Rosé Revolution is all about driving awareness of the dry, purpose-made, delicious Rosé style to consumers. The 2010 Rosé Revolution was one of the largest social media initiatives undertaken by a collaborative group of winemakers. The hashtag #RoseRev trended as the top Twitter hashtag in Australia on Nov 30, [...]

Gloria Jean’s Coffees has taken delivery of the award winning Lot # 5 Norival Favaro – Sao Marcos bean and is giving its customers the opportunity to sample and buy the bean – which is one of the world’s most sought after coffees. Only 2,756 kilograms, or 46 sacks, of the bean was produced, making [...]

Neal Robinson, aged 62, passed away recently following a courageous fight against cancer. Neal worked for over 25 years at Bunn-O-Matic Corporation, beginning in 1986 as a District Sales Manager for the Southeastern United States. He was promoted to Regional Sales Manager, then Regional Vice President for the Southeastern United States. In 1993 he served [...]

After 20 years of providing free of cost* espresso equipment, AMANTI is now offering their revolutionary AMANTI Espresso Bar (eBar) free of cost. The eBar is a state of the art modular café designed to recreate the authentic Italian espresso experience. Beautifully crafted, the eBar is a fully functional modular café and a true masterpiece [...]

What better way to top off a successful, stressful and busy 12 months for Disavè Espresso Equipment Suppliers than moving locations! After many weeks working 16+ hour days, Dean, Paul and the team at Disavè have finally moved into their spacious new factory and showroom, conveniently located in Dandenong South. “We are very excited to [...]

How’s this for a very cool idea for summer! The guys at Bean Drinking are bottling their own brew, calling it a rich and decadent concoction of their finest specialty coffee – expertly blended by their own baristas. Each batch of iced coffee is pulled, blended and bottled by each barista for individuality. The origin [...]

Herbie’s Spice Dust is the perfect topping for cappuccinos, hot chocolate, yoghurt and smoothies, with spices from the New World and the Old. Containing cocoa, sugar, strawberry, cassia, cinnamon, rose petals, vanilla, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom and chilli, the blends and spice mixes made at Herbie’s Spices contain no fillers, starches, MSG, free-flow agents or additives [...]

Enjoy specialty coffee tastings in Campos Coffee’s  Cupping Room – a purpose built room above their store in Newtown, Sydney and Brisbane now open in Fortitude Valley! Sessions are open to the public but you must book ahead! For bookings in Sydney Phone 02 9690 0294 or email rose@camposcoffee.com For bookings in Brisbane  Phone 07 3252 3612 [...]

Australia’s Barista Champion, Matt Perger, has placed a highly commendable third at the recent 12th Annual World Barista Championship held in Bogotá, Colombia. Alejandro Mendez from Viva Espresso in El Salvador took out first place, with a performance that included a signature drink made with Salvadoran coffee accented with an infusion hand-crafted from coffee pulp, [...]

Each year, the team at Ducale Coffee pit their coffee skills against each other to gain the lauded title of Ducale Champion! The prize awarded is huge bragging rights for a whole 12 months! Where better to hold this year’s competition, than under the bright lights of the first Melbourne Café Biz? Teams of 2 [...]

Vietnam Barista Competition Returns After the success of the inaugural event at Food&Hotel Vietnam 2009, the Vietnam Barista Competition will be held for a second time at the biennial Food&Hotel Vietnam 2011. The competition is organised by Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and Kerry Ingredients and is a highly recognised platform for Vietnam’s top baristas to [...]

Mixing a stimulant and a depressant may sound like a weird contradiction, but for Ashur Hall and Shaun Blissett of Illawarra Brewing Company (formally Five Islands), it ended up making perfect sense. Working closely with roaster Mitch Thornton and Tristan Creswick of Delano Coffee, the brewers wanted a beer that was a unique representation of [...]

Clinton has been a member of the Disavè team since January 2009. A motor mechanic by trade, Clinton got into the coffee industry in 2004 to raise some money to go snowboarding! Since then he has gained an immense amount of industry knowledge, working in roles ranging from hand packing, form and fill machine operating, [...]

The Pura Milk Latte Art comps and the World Latte Art Championships have their place on the world stage, but it all starts on the streets, where the top latte artists battle head-to-head for glory, a gaffer tape trophy and, most importantly, respect! Ona Coffee has been spreading the craze of latte art around Canberra, [...]

To celebrate the launch of the Nokia E6 and Nokia E7 smartphones, Nokia Australia have launched a new online book – In Hindsight: What 7 Entrepreneurs Learned on their Journey to Success. What does this have to do with the café industry? The book tells the warts and all stories of seven successful Aussie entrepreneurs, [...]

Held in the beautiful medieval city of Maastricht in the Netherlands, this year’s SCAE World of Coffee Exhibiition hosted the World Championships for Latte Art, Cup Tasters, Coffee in Good Spirits, the Cezve/Ibrik Championship and the new World Brewers Cup. With a strong Australian coffee culture, representatives were forthcoming for each of the championships. Kirby [...]