The Slow Drip

March, 2017

Rwanda Inzovu by Padre Coffee Roasters - From Brunswick with Love
Padre have a special place in our hearts. They were the Three Thousand Thieves first featured roaster, with owner Marinus giving us our chance to begin a concept that would share Melbourne’s best coffee to the world.
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February, 2017

Tade GG Single Origin for Filter and Dark Horse Blend for Espresso by Five Senses
With an ethos of coffee education, Five Senses Strategic Projects Manager, Ben Bicknell, hopes this month’s feature coffees will upskill 3tt members about specialty coffee: where it comes from, the flavour profiles, and the future of the industry.
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January, 2017

3065 espresso and Kainamui for filter, by Code Black Coffee
Roasting coffee requires a little more than applying heat to the dried seed of a flowering plant. The mysterious power of heat enables it to produce external, perceptible, even phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. I
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December, 2016

Orthodox Espresso and Costa Rica El Conquisador filter by St Ali Coffee Roasters
Being a leader in the Melbourne coffee scene is no small achievement; and holding that position for almost 12 years is an even greater one. As one of the very first specialty coffee brands, ST ALi has a place in the heart of all coffee-conscious Melbournians.
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November, 2016

Bedford St Blend for filter, and Bathysphere espresso by Wide Open Road for November 2016
Here at Three Thousand Thieves, we’ve been long-term fans of Wide Open Road. Quickly becoming a Melbourne institution, the road to their success has been paved with great coffee.
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October, 2016

El Salvador El Olvido by Dukes Coffee Roasters
It’s all in the details… If you’re a coffee lover in Melbourne, you’ve no doubt visited Dukes’ stunning café at Ross House on Flinders Lane in the CBD. Designed by Chris Connell, the interior is warm and sophisticated, featuring mid-century...
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September, 2016

The Thief, San Cristobal, and Cafe Dianmond Matagalpa from Contraband Coffee Traders
Nestled out the back of a café on Fitzroy’s infamously cool Brunswick Street, something special is brewing. And we mean that quite literally. This month we’re taking Three Thousand Thieves members on a journey to the dark side, to experience coffee so good, it should be illegal.
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August, 2016

Kenya Karatina AA and Colombia El Girasol, from Axil Roasters
It’s not often that you really focus on all of the hands that go into producing a cup of specialty coffee. From the international farmers, to the people sourcing great beans at origin, followed by the roasters, then finishing with you sipping a perfect pour over
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July, 2016

El Salvador Supersonic and Panama Don Pepe from Rumble Coffee Roasters
You might think it’s going from one extreme to another to talk about combat sports and then specialty coffee. But for the men behind Rumble Coffee Roasters, it makes perfect sense.
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June, 2016

Winter Blend, by Industry Beans, for June 2016
Founded almost seven years ago, the brand quickly established itself at the cutting edge of Melbourne’s specialty coffee scene, being one of the first to roast exceptional specialty coffee in-house and from a cafe owner’s perspective.
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May, 2016

Kenta from PNG, by Zest Coffee Roasters
This is the beginning of the Zest story; the artistic pursuit of taste and flavour is what gives Zest its individual voice as a coffee roaster.
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April, 2016

Colombia San Isidro and Brazil Adelson Vieira from ACOFFEE
Three Thousand Thieves is excited to exclusively launch a new brand of coffee into the Australian coffee scene that heads up this evolution. ACOFFEE by Melbourne coffee superstar Byoung-Woo Kang (or BW as most know him by).
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