The state of coffee in Brisbane

Come with us on a journey, and input along the way!

Our intention on this site is to only bring you reviews of the good coffee being made or roasted around Brisbane, and keep celebrating the good, not putting down the bad. Its amazing how many people whinge about other people in the coffee industry up here. So all hail the Baristas of Queensland who take their job seriously and the Artisan Roasters, closely guarding their secrets. Soon, bad coffee in Qld will be a thing of the past!

**Let me tell you how this blog came about...

Having briefly travelled to a few parts of the world recently (on that note, shout out to the best coffee I had outside of Australia which was at Estate Coffee in Copenhagen) it has become apparent to me, despite my often long winded rants to family, friends and customers about the poor state of the hospitality industry, and more specifically coffee industry in Brisbane and Qld, that it is in fact not that bad. Let me explain why below.

It seems that no matter where you go, Italy included, there are many poor quality/not fresh coffees floating around in cafes, being extracted by even poorer baristas.

Just over a month ago whilst staying with some friends from Brisbane, who are living in Kiev, Ukraine, we got talking about the state of coffee in Brisbane. The longer we talked about it, the more we realised that yes in fact, Brisbane is on the improve atleast, and already has some world class coffee being made. Let me back that up!

For all my rants about coffee culture in Brisbane, I could list off atleast 5 places straight away where I would be happy to introduce someone to 'real' coffee, and 10 places where you could go if you were able to live with 'good not excellent,' results. Lets build on what we already have! 

So once again I say, raise your glasses (or acf cups) to the baristas, cafe owners and specialty coffee roasters of Queensland, and lets enjoy every last drop.

P.S Since this is my first post, I thought I should put in a video of me pouring a rosetta at work with my boss filming.