Aug/Sept 2017

BeanScene

A World Class Coffee Magazine

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Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica And México Coe Break Record Auction Prices
Honduran Cup of Excellence (COE) winning lots were auctioned on 22 June with an average price of US$16.24 per pound (about $21.43), breaking the 2016 auction record. All 24 winning coffees sold above US$7.99 per pound (about $10.55) with the opening
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Killer Instincts
Most bands have touring down to a fine art: travel from one city to the next. Live out of a suitcase. Unpack instruments and sets. Perform. Pack it away. Move to the next gig. Coffee Galleria isn’t a band, and it hasn’t produced any record albums to
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Soy Solutions
Like most diners, café customers eat with their eyes, and expect the coffee placed in front of them to be just as Instagram-worthy as the smashed avocado to follow. The same applies for soy milk coffees. While some industry professionals have struggl
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Attendance All-time High At Thaifex-world Of Food Asia
The 14th edition of Thaifex–World of Food Asia attracted 55,111 visitors from 130 countries from 31 May to 4 June in in Bangkok, Thailand. The annual international trade show is a leading exhibition for food and beverages, technology, retail and fran
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Twenty Years Young
Greg and Anna Eydlish’s plans for a global manufacturing business started with humble beginnings – a 300 square-metre factory in St Kilda, Victoria with one phone, one desk, one forklift, and six employees. Greg and Anna’s arrival in Australia in 198
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Crunch Time
“DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF SELECTING THE RIGHT GRINDER AND MAINTAINING ITS CARE FOR OPTIMUM EXTRACTIONS AND FLAVOUR IN THE CUP.” When it comes time to setting up the right coffee equipment, the varied selection of shiny toys to consider c
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Bookings For Hostmilano 2017 Pass 1800 Mark
The countdown to the 40th edition of HostMilano has begun, with the trade show taking place at Fieramilano from 20 to 24 October. HostMilano has established itself as the leader in the Ho.Re.Ca (Hospitality, Restaurant and catering), food service, re
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Take The Plunge
A few months ago, my boss asked me if I would like to take part in a Q Grading course. The first thing that crossed my mind was: “There is no way I have the time or the skills for that right now.” But instead of telling him that, I just said I’d thin
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Into The Wild
Five years ago, Michael Savage arrived at Rwanda’s Kigali International Airport with an open mind and a bucket list to tick off. He always wanted to see the rare mountain gorillas of Rwanda and made his way to the landlocked East African country to f
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Coffee Masters NYC 2017 Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for the 2017 New York City Coffee Masters competition. If you think you have what it takes to become a Coffee Master, and keen on winning a $5000 cheque, then apply before 20 August. The competition will return to The New Yo
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Sustainable Solutions
BioPak Managing Director Gary Smith is passionate about getting the right message across to the industry: that BioPak’s cups are both compostable and recycled through many council paper waste collections. “COMPOSTABLE PACKAGING IS THE SOLUTION. IT SI
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The World Cuppa
Just as a barista balances pressure with speed and heat to pull a great espresso, an expert teamaker uses brewing technique to draw aroma, flavour, length and texture from tea. It’s an area that keeps evolving, and the proliferation of tea making con
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CBB: Is Australia At Risk?
Just over 2 kilometres from Australian shores in Papua New Guinea lurks the most harmful plague known to coffee producers – Coffee Berry Borer (CBB). The beetle, known for its speedy reproduction, burrows into and destroys coffee beans. The pest has
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United Stance On Sustainability At World Coffee Producers Forum
Coffee producing countries gathered in Medellín, Colombia for the inaugural World Coffee Producers Forum from 10 to 12 July. The event urged the coffee community to work collectively towards the sustainability of producers. Colombian President Juan M
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BeanScene Covershoot
The O’Kelly Group 6/24 Monash Dr, Dandenong South, Victoria, 3175 www.okellygroup.com.au This year we’ve celebrated cold brew, green beans and coffee cupping on the cover. Some images are artistic, but the August cover of BeanScene is a statement. “O
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Recycle Me
Detpak has partnered with Smart Planet Technologies, a materials engineering company in the United States, to develop a new cup lining that has potential to be easily recycled through existing cardboard and paper recycling channels. The new cup, call
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Time For A Fair Go
After more than 10 years in the Australian market, Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand CEO Molly Harriss Olson says there’s a dominant roadblock she’s keen to put to bed. “Roasters and importers think that we stand between them and the farmer – howev
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Stuff On The Scene
Grinders Coffee X-Tract is the perfect mixer for making Espresso Martinis quickly and consistently every time. The X-Tract is 100 per cent pure extract of whole coffee beans, using filtered water for up to eight hours – the perfect amount of time to
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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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Best Of The Best
WORLD BREWERS CUP CHAMPION – CHAD WANG Chad Wang of Jascaffe China in Taiwan, but there could only be one winner. “[It was a feeling of] blankness. When I’m put in a situation where there is very high tension (good or bad) I go numb and just act on i
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Salute The Reuser
Since Abigail Forsyth established KeepCup in 2008, the product has become Australia’s leading reusable coffee cup. KeepCup users help divert more than 1 billion disposable cups from landfill each year. After the ABC program War on Waste went to air i
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Think And Act
How did you consume your coffee today? Was it in a ceramic cup? Or was it on the go in a reusable cup, or perhaps a disposable coffee cup? If it was a disposable cup, did you think about what happens to it once you’ve sipped the last memorable flavou
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Colin’s Next Chapter
As a kid, Colin Harmon wanted to be a star football player, a chef, and a journalist. Colin is none of those things, but oddly enough through his 10-year coffee career, he’s managed to achieve those ambitions in a coincidental way. “I got to represen
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Quiet Achiever
The screeching sound of a barista incorrectly texturing milk is enough to send any die-heart coffee consumer out the door they entered, and it’s the same with a blender. “Traditional blenders ignite a high volume, intense and almost alarming tone whe
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New Wave
The O’Kelly Group, a leading family-owned packaging producer, is passionate about working with café customers to deliver products that cater to its practical needs. But more than ever, The O’Kelly Group Director of Sales Nathan O’Kelly says those nee
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The Gourmet Farmer
Matthew Evans blames Melbourne for his coffee habits. For three years he worked as a café reviewer for The Age, critiquing, drinking and writing about the city’s must-visit and must-avoid coffee haunts. At each venue he went through the same routine:
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Bright Aussie stars
One of Europe’s leading coffee events, World of Coffee, has come to an end with the crowning of four champions in Budapest, Hungary. Chad Wang of Jascaffe China in Taiwan won the 2017 World Brewers Cup (WBrC) on 15 June. Arnon Thitiprasert of Rostr8t
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Café Scene
11 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba, Queensland, 4102 Open Monday to Friday 7am – 4pm Word is out, Grinders Coffee has reinvented its coffee image in Brisbane, and people are taking notice. The newly designed café and training centre has found itself in The C
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Cup Of Truth
For a small structure standing nine centimeters tall and typically holding eight ounces of liquid, the average paper coffee cup has done a great job of hitting news headlines for all the wrong reasons. On 30 May, more than 750,000 viewers tuned in to
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The Makings Of A Champion
Coffee transcends our differences and connects as human beings, and this was never more apparent than when I attended the World Latte Art Championship (WLAC) in Budapest, Hungary. The June event was chock-full with people from every corner of the glo
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All Hail The Cappuccino
THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF CAPPUCCINO DRINKERS HAS SLIPPED UNDER THE RADAR FOR SOME TIME, BUT THEY ARE THE “SPECIALTY GENERATION”. Author Sir Francis Bacon once said that knowledge is power, and within Australia’s coffee market, that sentiment rings t
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E-scene
For more information, visit www.beanscenemag.com.au Hi, I work as a barista at the Gilson South Yarra restaurant in V ictoria (171 Domain Rd) with my wife Linnie, who is also a barista. We used to own our own café called Magic in South Melbourne. I g
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Flavour Creation
It’s around a one-hour drive from Mount Hagen airport to the Sigri Coffee Estate, located in the Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, the road is newly laid or well maintained, however, there is a section of r
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Chipmunk With Flower
It’s been a busy few months: hours of training, practising, and pouring in preparation for the World Latte Art Championship (WLAC) in Budapest, and just 10 minutes on the world stage to show the judges what I could do. It was incredible to represent

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