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How often should Coffee Shops adjust the Coffee Grind?

How often should Coffee Shops adjust the Coffee Grind?

Gone are the days when the Coffee Shop owner could set the grind and put the DO NOT TOUCH sign up! Milk Texture and Latte Art have long been the most recognised skills of your local Barista but the hidden skill that you should appreciate most is the Barista's ability to make small changes to the coffee grind and dose volume, throughout the day. Ground Coffee reacts to temperature changes and moisture in the air and can go from prefect to terrible within a few minutes of weather conditions changing.    Good Barista training should give the Barista the skills...

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Building Our Feel Good Story

Building Our Feel Good Story

It all started with our beautiful blend of coffee called Hero which has grown to become one of the Sunshine Coasts most popular coffee blends. Its popularity has given us the opportunity to provide significant financial support to charities, community groups and sports teams here on the Sunshine Coast.

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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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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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