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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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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In the pursuit of that perfect cup of coffee or espresso, can perfection ever really be achieved? The answer, even accounting for the consideration of individual taste, may simply be no. The reason is the result of four things that coffee are subjected to in its short life from green bean to cup: oxidation, heat, [...]
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Matt was interviewed by 2UE weekend afternoon host Clive Robertson last weekend talking about coffee at home.
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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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Matt was on Afternoons with James Valentine ABC 702 Sydney radio show “The Rip” today talking about coffee and life in Sydney.
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Enjoy!
Matt and James Valentine
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I was lucky enough to be given a personal tour around one of the most promising up-and-coming Australian coffee plantations/roasters a few days ago. The plantation was called Red Door Coffee and the owner is Brett Luker. Red Door is situated a few kilometres off the Pacific Highway just past Ballina in a little place [...]
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Melbourne Cafe/Coffee Culture
There is a great Melbourne Cafe/Coffee Culture story in this months (April) Cathay Pacific inflight magazine, Discovery.
Our own Barista Basics Coffee Academy is featured in the article.
Click here to read the article in PDF form.
Courtesy of Discovery, inflight magazine of Cathay Pacific.
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Here is a new design for you to try. Enjoy!
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Studying the chemistry of milk can get, well – nerdy and technical, but it is necessary for the perfection of things like beautifully textured milk and coffee art. So take a pencil out of your pocket protector, fellow nerds, and let’s get started.
Don’t worry, you are not going to need a chemistry degree to get [...]
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As any good barista knows, consistency between one cup and another is the mark of excellence.
If a customer has come to expect a certain taste, blend or fullness they begin to enjoy anticipating that experience every time they come into your café or espresso bar. It is one of the most important considerations for their [...]
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The stars almost perfectly aligned last Friday night in Sydney. Balmy evening, end of the working week and George Michael performing live for the first time in 22 years! I’ll get back to the “almost” a little later, but let’s get back to George Michael who at 46 years of age definitely still has it.
There [...]
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A banquet for the birth of a friend’s daughter recently took my brother Andrew and I to Hong Kong.
I had a free day during my stay there and I was keen to use it to see what was happening in the world of coffee in Hong Kong. My good friend and old high school mate [...]
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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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When we used to work behind espresso machines, we noted that a typical question that people would ask when they waited for their coffee was, “What blend do you use?” or “What’s in your blend?” That’s actually a pretty complicated question! You’d need a good 15 minutes to answer that properly.
The question of “What’s in [...]
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It’s surprising just how little people think about the coffee bean when they go about drinking their morning cup. Dave and I have found that a lot of people in our classes even think that that it is some kind of generic food substance – like a peanut (after all, it looks like one!) and [...]
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Not everyone has a choice of where they get their coffee. My local train station for example has a stretch of shops opposite but only one serves coffee (so I make mine at home before I leave for work). But if you have the luxury of choice, use it wisely. This article is designed to [...]
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We have students in our coffee art classes all the time who look at our coffee art DVD playing on the big screens as they walk in and comment, “Surely nobody has time for coffee art in a busy café!” (I wonder why they have come to such a class if they did not truly [...]
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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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