Here is a fun new iPhone/iPad App from the Ninja Barista. Test your coffee making skills while fending off evil ninjas. This game is pretty simple and just meant to be a bit of fun for baristas and lovers of coffee. Make sure you look at the Ninja Barista’s videos sharing some of his philosophies [...]
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The Rocks Aroma Festival is on this weekend in Sydney.
We will have a stand in George Street this year so come by and visit us!
Download a printable version of the event program
The Rocks Aroma Festival
Sunday 31 July
10am – 5pm
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Choice magazine just released their new test of coffee at chains in Australia. We formed part of the team tasting the coffee you can buy over the counter and Matt spent some time visiting individual outlets with Choice.
See the Choice Magazine article here.
See the Sydney Morning Herald interview here.
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Good news. We have just launched our first coffee app.
**Learn stunning coffee art from the leading coffee app in the world today!**
Suited to the home barista, the commercial barista or anyone simply interested in coffee, this app contains actual movies of the three main different coffee art techniques: free pouring, etching and fudge art!
As a [...]
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Matt was interviewed by 2UE weekend afternoon host Clive Robertson last weekend talking about coffee at home.
Press play below to listen.
Enjoy!
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Do you think your role as a barista is simply frothing milk, extracting espressos or pouring coffees all day long. No way! The job entails much more than that.
At the end of the day – sure – your primary role is to wrangle the espresso machine, but a good barista is also there to create [...]
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I had a feeling that it was going to be a good day as I drove towards the city at dawn on Sunday. As I cruised down the hill on the Gore Hill Expressway, I saw the Opera House just peeking over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and at that precise moment in time as if [...]
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Last time we posted a blog on this subject, the global economic crisis didn’t have a snappy acronym like GFC or GEC and people’s dinner parties were only partially being dominated by boring talk of economic stimulus packages and interest rates.Now, several months down the track, dinner parties are being completely dominated by discussions involving [...]
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There certainly seem to be an over-supply or articles in coffee magazines that are dedicated to barista competitions. These competitions seem to have captured people’s imaginations. “Can you really have a competition to make a simple cup of coffee and is it interesting to watch?” people ask. The answer to the first part of their [...]
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N.B. All prices referred to in this post are in Australian Dollars
Once upon a time in this far-flung sunburnt country of ours, people drank water, beer or tea. What coffee there was existed as horrible black fine powder and was called “Blend 43” and the word “espresso” was just a fancy word that people who had [...]
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I received an email flyer from an e-commerce store flogging home espresso machines late last week. Its rather eye-catching heading read “All I Want for Christmas is my Damn Coffee!” Now, I usually delete anything that even remotely resembles annoying spam but on this occasion I spared it from being ejected into the bottomless chamber [...]
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On July 29, 2008, Starbucks Australia shut stores nationwide to hold urgent discussions regarding the future of operations in Australia.
By July 30, the future plans for Starbucks in Australia were made public and the speculation was right. It had been no secret that Starbucks in the US had taken drastic moves to close hundreds of [...]
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Welcome to our new website, Baristabrothers.com.This is a short video introduction from us. We look forward to bring you more on coffee in the years ahead.Enjoy.
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