Prepare for the daily grind with the perfect grind from local roasters
The aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans irresistible to coffee lovers! As you’re passing through Fortitude Valley or Bowen Hills on the way to work, you’ll be pleased to know that you can find the perfect grind and get your caffeine fix by many award-winning local roasters.
Fifth Battery Coffee Roasters, off Saint Pauls Terrace, offers specialty espresso that’s sourced, secured and roasted in small batches to keep your coffee fresh and flavoursome. Its bomb shelter-meets-cathedral-like headquarters is the perfect locale to reflect its name origins – named after the founders grandfather E.G. Gowty, who was drafted to the 5th Battery 2/2 Heavy Anti-aircraft Regiment. The house blend offers a heavy body with smooth flavours of cocoa and malt and a bright acidity with a lingering spicy finish.
Suits, lycra, uniforms and streetwear pour in and out of Bellissimo Coffee on Wandoo Street, Fortitude Valley every morning to secure their early morning brew. While the roasting is now over at its new headquarters in Bulimba, the cafe stocks all of its blends such as its signature Italian Dark Roast, with a smooth nutty flavour and hint of chocolate. Single origins are also popular including the El Salvador.
Up on Brunswick Street, you will find Reverends Fine Coffee, where the devotional ritual by its baristas of making the perfect cup pays homage to its name. Serving house-blends and single-origin espresso coffees, the crew also love brewing with alternative methods such as Chemex or AeroPress – all to deliver you your fix any time of day.
Bowen Hills is where the major roasters reside, with the likes of Merlo and Di Bella Coffee. From bringing the first espresso machine into Brisbane in 1958 to introducing street-side dining in the 1980s, and roasting since 1995, coffee is in the Merlo DNA. With slow roasting occurring daily to produce its fifteen varieties of blends and single origins, you will be sure to find a flavour and strength to reflect your taste. If you have a coffee machine at home, you won’t be able to resist a quirky paint pot tin full of beans or ground coffee to take home too.
Since its humble beginnings as a roaster in the suburbs of Brisbane in 2002, Di Bella Coffee has become Australia’s largest specialty coffee roaster with global ties in China, India and also New Zealand. Di Bella Coffee boasts it’s the only company in Australia to source 100% of its beans directly from the farmer as its founders believe that great coffee is only sustainable if they support those farming communities that support us. Not only can you drop in to grab a coffee on the go, if you’re driving to work, you can take advantage of their drive-through service.
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