Dec/Jan 2017/18

BeanScene

A World Class Coffee Magazine

BeanScene6 min readBeverages
Summer Scene
Urban is the new Wega espresso machine created especially for the Australian market. The technology in the Urban comes from the progression of Wega’s multi-boiler technology range. It includes a new easy-to-use 1/4 steam tap for faster milk foaming,
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Setting The Bar
Grinders Coffee is committed to maintaining a high level of coffee quality and knowledge across the board, so much so that everyone in the company is assessed on their ability to dial in to a supplied recipe and produce a number of beverages to a hig
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LUCY In The Sky
Buying the best lot of coffee could be likened to outlasting competitors on Survivor to claim the prize pool. Sometimes it’s like playing poker with high rollers and keeping your cards close to your chest, and sometimes it just comes down to how clos
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Using All Senses
Since 2006, Five Senses Coffee has hosted a range of practical and theoretical courses to help improve the skillset of Australian baristas. “The specialty coffee industry and knowledge around education has developed so much that we have to keep growi
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A Leading Legacy
By Sarah Baker Lyndey Milan has a million food and travel experiences she would love to relive: eating white truffle risotto in Alba during truffle season in Italy, mud crabbing outside Broome, and devouring a delicious souvlaki at a quaint little
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Hot Off The Press
If you’ve ever questioned serving Nitro Coffee at your café, what’s stopped you before? Was it the fuss with nitrogen bottles, the under-counter set-up, or lack of space? It’s time to leave those doubts behind and deliver what the market is demanding
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MICE2018: The People’s Show
It’s that time of year again when shoppers stress at the thought of what to buy their loved ones – and for that annoying person who has everything and you know a box of Cadbury Favourites isn’t going to cut it. It’s also that time of year when we ref
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Training For All Levels
Whether you’re an aspiring barista starting your career, an experienced professional seeking to take your skills to the next level or compete internationally, or a domestic devotee wanting to make quality coffee at home, Veneziano’s team of dedicated
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Virtual Buying Power
When making big purchasing decisions, customers can be convinced of technological benefits, quality and design aesthetics, and even the price tag, but what about colour? Too often, La Marzocco Australian Marketing Manager Jets Anita Langlands says, c
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Flying Peacock
My flying peacock is one of those patterns that started off as one thing, and ended up completely different. I was trying to make a rooster with a big fancy tail, but I didn’t think it was technically challenging enough, so I kept pushing and trying
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Training The Techs
Service Sphere’s efforts to refresh technician training in the coffee industry was recognised at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) 2017, where it won second place in the Judge’s Choice Product Innovation Award. Service Sphere Business De
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Growers Needed
Practically organic, Australian coffee thrives in our cooler subtropical conditions, free of the pests and diseases that require nasty sprays in most coffee growing nations. Our growers use biological and sustainable farming practices, such as compos
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The Missing Link
For years, Australia’s housing market has been identified as a “seller’s market” and that trend is set to continue in our roasting industry according to Licensed Business Broker Dan Levitus. “Any coffee roaster is winning at the moment,” says Dan of
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Milan HOSTS the world
Host Milan challenges the definition of big, and then surpasses it. Gigantic or even overwhelming may be more adequate to describe the biannual trade gathering of the hospitality, restaurant, and catering event. Someone once told me that each trade h
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Bean Scene Cover Shoot
Bombora Coffee + Water Supplies 6/132 Garden Grove Parade, Adamstown, NSW 2289 www.bomborasupplies.com.au Over the year BeanScene has featured an array of different covershoot options – we’ve celebrated green beans, cáscara, Q grading, paper cups, a
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Mobile Baristas
In a traditional café setting, baristas are confined to the bench while loyal consumers make a special trip for their morning caffeine fix. Coffee Machine Solutions (CMS) Co-Owner Greg Sparkes says times are changing with baristas taking coffee to th
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Visions And Values
Like any good organisation, café or business, success is reliant on a clear vision and goal. For the Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA), that goal has always been to give a voice to the Australian coffee industry. To do that, over the yea
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A Career In Coffee
My career in coffee started in a chain café when I was about 15 years old. Looking back now on the quality of the coffee I was making back then, I am pretty surprised that I actually took a liking to drinking it. At this point in time, I certainly di
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Save The Trees
Disposable paper coffee cups made some of the biggest headlines in 2017, and for all the wrong reasons: their incorrect disposal, inability to break down at landfill, and impact on the environment. There has been less conversation, however, about the
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Contributors
Jared Chapman is the National Team Leader for Mocopan Coffee. He has an extensive background in coffee, training and consulting, working with cafés of all shapes and sizes from independent cafés to corporate coffee chains. Jared’s passion is sharing
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A New Coffee King
Dale Harris of Has Bean Coffee in the United Kingdom is the 2017 World Barista Champion. The first-time national champion beat 58 country representatives to claim the prestigious title at Café Show Seoul from 9 to 12 November. Miki Suzuki of Japan wa
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Water Treatment Around Australia
One spring morning I went for a leisurely 20-kilometre walk around the Maroondah Reservoir, a pristine lake near the Yarra Valley, north-east of Melbourne. The clear water looked inviting for a swim, but a number of stern warning signs quickly discou
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Café Scene
By Cam Ballard 481 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, Victoria, 3144 Open Tuesday to Friday 7am to 3.30pm, weekends 7.30am to 3pm (03) 9822 1003 Kooyong’s reputation for its January tennis tournament may be sidelined with the rise of the area’s latest attrac
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Chills And Summer Thrills
Summer in New Zealand is traditionally hit and miss. Add in the conundrum of wanting the stimulating caffeine effect of delicious coffee on a hot summer’s day without imbibing a hot beverage, and cold brew becomes the perfect answer. Following visits
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My 2018 Horoscope
Attending Host Milan was like looking into a crystal ball at the coffee industry’s trendsetters for the next two years. This visit to the Italian clairvoyant was exciting and thought-provoking, and more than 197,600 people came for the same insight.
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Fifth In The World
Hugh Kelly was the top-ranked barista leading into the semi finals of the World Barista Championship (WBC) after day one of heats, impressing the judges with his new take on milk texturing and use of dry ice to cool his espressos. He was selected as
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Tea School For Cafés
By Adeline Teoh Compared to what a barista does to make a latte, brewing tea is extremely simple: it’s water and tealeaves. There’s no need to worry about pressure, or steaming milk, or latte art, and there’s no certified training or expensive equi
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Another Coffee Year
Coffee years are odd things. Midway through the year we start seeing crop 2017/18 in bags, a sign that another season is on its way. Then before you know it, December is breathing down our necks. For roasters and cafés, it gets frenetic with Christma
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News
Adam Metelmann of Pullman Espresso Accessories has won the Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) Western Region Barista Championship for a second year in a row. Hyemi Lee of Lucky Cat Enterprises was runner up and Shari Almond of Pixel Coffe
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Gold Standards
Ona Coffee’s training warehouse is a buzz of activity on a week night. Just like musicians producing their best hits in a late-night jamm session, Ona Coffee’s “whiteboard sessions” are gatherings of staff members and brainstorms of ideas for new ble
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E-scene
I grew up in Medellin, Colombia, playing in my best friend’s backyard where his family had a small coffee tree. Our friendship grew out the back of his house alongside the coffee tree. Years later, at the end of 2008, I moved to Australia and redisco
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Pouring With Purpose
Christopher Areskog’s first time in front of a coffee machine was a foreign experience. The closest thing he’d come to hospitality was “a Maccas shift”. If he’s really honest, he didn’t love café work to begin with. But the longer he works with Wheel
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In Place We Taste
For the past few weeks I have been drinking a delicious coffee from La Maseta farm in Colombia. Each sip of this filter coffee reminds me of the unrelenting efforts involved in achieving this cup. It has an unmistakable full body and crisp acidity, a
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Global Appeal
Simon James leads the Coffee Diploma training at Genovese Coffee. With his 18 years of experience and involvement in helping develop the written curriculum for the internationally certified Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) courses, it’s no wonder c
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Is It Genuine?
There’s always a distinction between buying something genuine and something that’s not. When you visit Europe and are approached to buy that “real” designer label handbag lying on a cloth on the side of the road under the Eiffel Tower, chances are it

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