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The SECRET to making Consistently High Quality Coffee

The SECRET to making Consistently High Quality Coffee

FOLLOW THE RECIPE EVERY TIME If you don't have a recipe for making coffee in your cafe, espresso bar or at home you need one. When you do have a recipe, it's important that you follow it every single time, for quality and consistency!!! What's a coffee making recipe? It's the amount of coffee and water that you use, the water temperature, and the time that you let it extract through espresso machines or brew in other coffee making equipment. The recipe that we provide our wholesale clients to use with our Hero Blend Coffee for their commercial espresso machines...

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Solid Ground
The Next Generation of Cold Coffee

The Next Generation of Cold Coffee

The next generation of cold coffee has arrived and it is the best quality coffee product that we have ever tasted.  It’s so good that it is changing our coffee drinking habits and taking over from hot espresso-based coffee as our daily coffee fix. Cold coffee in the morning, yes absolutely!!! What’s so good about our cold coffee? Quality: the brewing process has gone next level. Years of research and development have resulted in the introduction of grinding, brewing and filtering methods that cannot be matched by cafes and espresso bars. The result is full flavoured cold coffee that is...

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John Ratcliffe
Here comes HULK!

Here comes HULK!

Introducing our new HULK Blend We have been working closely with our coffee roasters and the amazing team at Kenilworth Bakery to create a new blend of coffee that compliments their incredible range of donuts. Their Espresso and Death before Decaf donuts in particular showcase espresso as a key ingredient. To say we have had some success is an understatement. HULK Coffee Blend is a chocolate explosion, that is full of flavour with a wonderfully smooth finish. Perfect to wash down a Tim Tam Donut or any of the incredible Kenilworth Bakery Donuts. In creating HULK Coffee Blend our roasters...

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Thinking of Buying a Coffee Shop?

Thinking of Buying a Coffee Shop?

We have just helped some close friends buy and set up a coffee shop on the Sunshine Coast and it's a story worth sharing. Finding the right opportunity: Searched Coffee Shops for sale on the Sunshine Coast and worked through the businesses in the agreed price range. The plan was to find something cheap, in a good location, that wasn't being run very well and transform it as cost effectively as possible. Location We found a cafe in a busy shopping centre with an asking price slightly higher than our budget but given the location and future potential we decided it...

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