The Slow Drip

We’ve featured our friends over at ST. ALi before and we’re so excited to have them back to kick off the New Year. This time around ST. ALi has aimed to shine the spotlight on women in coffee - from their farmers and producers in Colombia to their team on the ground here in Australia!

Craig and Andrea Simon are a coffee-loving couple from Melbourne and are Founders of Criteria Coffee. We featured Criteria back in May of this year, their amazing coffees helped ease the pain during our first COVID lockdowns, so what a treat it is to end the year with our favourite duo.

Get ready to experience some seriously interesting flavours this month! Bali based Expat. Roasters have expanded their roasting operation to Australia in 2020, bringing their brilliant eye for blended roasts with them, and we’re here for it.

Rumble’s extremely transparent about how their farmers and the local community are treated. It’s apparent that their relationship with their coffee farmers, including Marlon del Valle and his family from Guatemala, is quite special.

Stella is the brainchild of coffee stalwart Tim Varney. Through responsibly sourced coffee, Varney’s mission is to bring about a little jolt of nostalgia in our lives - and to celebrate the joy that comes with a good solid cup of joe. Especially during these difficult times!

Cartel Coffee Roasters, from Victoria’s reinvented coastal city of Geelong, has a clear mission in mind: to support coffee farmers and ethical farming practices.

Wanting to jump out of your comfort zone and try out a new brewing method at home? We know it can be a bit overwhelming so we’ve put together this handy dandy cheat sheet that lays out each brewing method for you.

Chances are you’ve heard of the talented Jibbi Little, Australia’s current Latte Art champion. If not, we suggest you drop everything you’re doing right now and go watch a few videos of her in action! 

This month’s coffee feature hails from the creative team behind Stitch Coffee. Stitch roast their range blends and Single Origins out of their roastery in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Alexandria.

Collaborative, authentic community experiences are what Criteria Coffee has always been about… so what better roaster to choose for this month of isolation than the brainchild of founders and coffee-loving couple Craig and Andrea Simon.

When it comes to buying, grading and roasting coffee, Lucy Ward has carved out an international reputation as quite the coffee legend, both in the local market and with growers all over the world.

As artisan coffee flows freely throughout Australia’s local cafes and homes, there is one Melbourne roastery that always impresses us for all the right reasons - Wood and Co. We’ve described them as a “cult classic” roaster with a cult following to match, and we stand by this sentiment.