October 2018

BeanScene

A World Class Coffee Magazine

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Dairy Diary
A 3am wake-up call isn’t my ideal of fun. As I drove out to country Victoria on a frosty winter’s morning with ice on the roads and high beams on to pierce through the darkness, my only thought was: who’s up this early? As it turns out, a high propor
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Genetic Resistance To Leaf Rust Could Be Gone Within Five Years
World Coffee Research (WCR) has announced that fighting coffee leaf rust through genetic resistance won’t be enough to protect farmers from significant crop losses. Coffee leaf rust has wreaked havoc on coffee production, particularly in Latin Americ
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BeanScene Covershoot
The October edition of BeanScene is always the largest issue of the year, celebrating our 2018 Roasters Directory with more than 800 roasters listed across Australian and New Zealand. With this in mind, we felt it was only appropriate to invite one o
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Coffee Washing Station Rubagabaga Wins Burundi Cup Of Excellence
The Burundi Cup of Excellence (COE) international jury has awarded seven Presidential Awards to coffees scoring 90 points and above, the most scored in COE history. Greenco-owned Coffee Washing Station Rubagabaga won first place with a score of 91.43
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Danny Wilson Of Ona Coffee Wins Australian Cigs Championship
Danny Wilson of Ona Coffee is the 2018 Australian Coffee in Good Spirits Champion. Jay Lee and Chanho Hong, both of Normcore Coffee Roasters, placed second and third respectively. “It’s super exciting to win,” Danny, Senior Roaster at Ona Coffee says
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Contributors
Kyle Rutten is the National Training Manager for Suntory and Mocopan Coffee Australia. He has extensive experience in training and development, and people management. Kyle has a strong background in specialty coffee with a focus in bringing that expe
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Tilly Sproule Wins Asca Northern Region Barista Championship For Fourth Time
Tilly Sproule of Tim Adams Specialty Coffee has won the Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) Northern Region Barista Championship for the fourth consecutive year. Matthew Philben of Di Bella Coffee placed second and Joshua Robertson of Seve
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Stuff On The Scene
Proudly Australian made, Alternative Dairy Co dairy-free milks have been specially crafted for coffee in collaboration with baristas, café owners, and non-dairy milk drinkers to achieve the perfect formulation to complement the espresso. Alternative
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Isabella Willis Of The Blessed Bean Wins 2018 Australian Aeropress Championship
Wildcard entrant Isabella Willis of The Blessed Bean in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales is the 2018 Australian AeroPress Champion. At 11am on 19 September, Isabella decided to jump in a car with her husband Joshua and make the journey to Melbourne to co
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Salvatore’s Creative Solutions
Spending the morning with Salvatore Malatesta looks like a scene out of The West Wing. Inside the engine room, meetings are held back to back and some intertwine with each other, from a menu consultation to a discussion on solar energy. Salvatore bri
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Ashley’s Ambition
There are some magical coffee moments you never forget. For Dinner By Heston Blumenthal’s Chef Director Ashley Palmer-Watts, that moment was five years ago when he, two chefs, and a maître d’ climbed Africa’s highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Cirrus About Sustainability
If we time travel to the year 2020, what would the modern age café look like? Would there be robotic baristas, self-serving espresso machines, and Willy Wonka inspired installations? Many would argue this outlook is already underway. But what about a
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Victor’s Victory
Victor Vu has a talent for latte art. He’s used to thrilling large audiences with his original designs and creative abstract patterns. He proved his skill when he won the MilkLab Barista Battle Series final at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo
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Playing To Win
Stepping out onto Sydney’s freshly manicured Allianz Stadium dressed in the Sydney Roosters’ iconic red, white and blue jersey is a memory few are lucky to share, but one Steve Wrightson recalls well. “It’s electric. I just loved playing the game of
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Making Tracks
There are two traditional types of barista in Vietnam according to Han Tran: those that work in street vendors selling roadside coffee that’s “dark, dense, and bitter Robusta” or in male-dominated cafés that are attracted more to the female baristas
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Flavour Potential
Prior to 2015, Colombia produced coffees for quantity, not quality. All of the country’s coffees were washed processed due to a restriction imposed by the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) to promote only cultivars that focused on volume. The
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The Planets Align
A surgeon is known for their steady hands, attention to detail, and extreme precision. In the operating room that is East Coast Espresso in Brunswick, Victoria, Technical Director Jordan Elkurdi shares similar traits. His utensils are evenly aligned,
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No Optical Illusion
In the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, golden chocolate eggs are placed on an eggdicator scale to determine if they’re good or bad. Good eggs are shipped out. Bad eggs go down the garbage chute into the incinerator. Even spoilt child Ver
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Cow To Cup
Cow number 125 is always first to Stanvale Farm’s milk station each morning. Number 6389 is always one of the last. “Cows are more intelligent than people give them credit for,” says Dairy Farmer Gordon Lockett. “They’re creatures of habit. They’re i
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A Phantom triumph
It’s one thing to design a product from scratch and bring it to life, but to have every piece of material made and manufactured on Australian soil is a feat few businesses boast, due to cheaper overseas labour and manufacturing costs. For Coffee Roas
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Café Scene
16 River St, Richmond, Victoria 3121 Open seven days 7am to 4pm (03) 8326 5100 Before even stepping inside Veneziano Coffee Roasters’ new café, those familiar with the roasting headquarters would recognise significant changes: a six-metre floor-to-ce
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Say I do
Weddings are a big occasion in anyone’s life. Tradition stipulates that a bride must wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. The 2019 Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) might not be a wedding per se, but it’
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Just Exploring
In my early days as a barista, supply chain blame always came to the fore whenever there was a complaint from a customer about the coffee. An unskilled barista would blame the roaster, the roaster would blame the green beans. Having trust in the prod
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Quality Over Quantity
Every Tuesday Dirk Sickmueller, General Manager of premier export company Taylor Winch (Coffee) in Nairobi, goes to auction. Rather than a vision of excited bankers yelling out figures and gesticulating wildly like a scene from The Wolf of Wall Stree
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Top Five Benefits Of Telemetry
The internet has made it easier than ever to stay connected, and telemetry allows café owners and operators to take full advantage. Telemetry, a system which monitors an espresso machine’s functions and performance via an internet connection, makes i
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Brewing Made Easy
In the past five years, filter coffee has found a home among the specialty café market, but also in the home of coffee connoisseurs wanting to recreate delicious home brews. The best part about this method of coffee making is how easy it is. If you t
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Calibration Calculations
When it comes to training, one of the biggest questions I get asked is: when should I calibrate my grinder? Calibration is simply the process of adjusting your grinder, moving the blades of the grinder closer or further apart, to ensure you get your
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Angel With Bow And Arrow
In ancient Palaeolithic times, dating back over 10,000 years ago, bows and arrows were used in battles and hunting. The symbol is also affiliated with Apollo, the Greek god of archery (among other things), but my favourite reference is Dragon Ball, a
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Proteins With Purpose
If you regularly make soy coffees for your customers, you have probably noticed that soy milk is often harder to work with than dairy milk – it tends to curdle more in coffee, especially when steaming hot. With some coffees it behaves well, with some
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Game On
It’s competition season once again. For the Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) Board, this is one of our favourite times of the year. We love feeling the excitement of our members and experiencing the passion of the competitors. The 2019
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Returning Champions
The end of July saw two returning champions crowned at great competitions held in Auckland. L’affare Melrose hosted a record number of 34 coffee cuppers for the New Zealand Cup Tasters Championship. With standing room only, the talented cuppers eve
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Home-grown History
Y “You grow coffee in Australia?” I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve been asked this question. For the record, yes, we do. The first coffee seed arrived with the First Fleet around 1788, but it did not survive in the harsh climate of Port Jacks
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E-scene
My first job in coffee was 1 4 years ago making coffees at the Powerhouse Museum. To build up my skills, I would train at night after service to continually improve my ability . I then moved in to events management at the Hilton in Sydney. To keep up

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