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The Solstice Brings Shorter days and Longer nights, a time to celebrate life, death and rebirth, an eons-old tradition, for us though, its still all about the celebration of coffee, sharing many great cups of elegant coffee, with friends, family and of course our customers.

So  much work lately, so many late nights, Scotty the sheety from AGC has been great helping us build custom everything, from shelves to odd jobs we invent for him.

Many lattes, many espros, many filters, all hand made, and savoured to the last….

More late nights with Scotty.

The days got so crazy that i had to re-invent an old favourite, i call it, THE HAZEL, named after the barista that invented the drink at a coffee championship, the boys at WHC were mightily impressed and have asked us to start stocking the main ingredient so we can have it more often…. so what is it?

well its a glass of chinotto with a riss-ty on top, they go down great and give us a well needed kick up the arse when we need it on our busy days… try it out some time.

More late nights as Savva and George fit our cupboards, thanks heaps guys, we have so much storage now, woot!

Brian - a good barista when he joined us, and a credit to himself being able to handle all the criticism and coaching we have given him over the past two months, he started to shine recently and there were even moments of greatness, keep up the stellar work my friend!

An old Mecca tradition of Dom and Reuben competing to fit more coffee bags in the hopper has been taken over by Matty, he loves it and even if he spills half a kilo of beans a day in trying to “stack ‘em high” it wont halt the temptation.

The craziness continued and the taxi rank across from our shop felt it, there was a problem with city rail, surprise-surprise, lol brings back memories of working at mecca, at least i had my ipod to keep me company

A night to remember, Brian and myself went to a concert in the city, it was CoF at the Metro, they pwned and it was easily the best night…. maybe ever! On the way however we had to go by the roasterie as we had coffee stock issues, meaning we ran out, so Reuben kindly lent us his time and we picked some coffee up. We were then treated to a sample of La Esmerelda Geisha, the current crop that like sold for 130 buck a kilo or something insane like that, anyways Reu brewed it through the siphon and well it was obviously amazing, maybe one day we can form a co-op and buy some of this beautiful coffee. I was lucky when i was working in Japan to make the acquaintance of Daniel Petersen, the owner of the farm, maybe i should hit him up!

Our old mate Luca, the original Lucky himself visited us, was great to see him and hopefully he will join the dark side one day, when he returns from Brisbane.

The days got crazier as we approached the solstice, we played around with candy-teeth, and even ate them too :p

The famous WHC latte art comp hasn’t been on lately and by our recent three way dance, its a good thing we were all pathetic! LOLZORS

However matt has been trying to fit four love hearts into a demi’ recently, and i have to say he is now nailing it, he is possibly the best multi-art barista i have seen, albeit, i reckon i did nine ‘zettas in a large cup the other day….

And finally our staff member Josh aka J-BOMB turned 21 last night, it was a great night and i finally got to see Brian show us his fire twirling skills, he is considered to be in an elite handful of people in the art and it has been said that he is the third best in the world at twirling or poi or whatever its called

Over the past few months i have been quite happy with our new marzocco but im still asking questions as to how much i can push out of this machine….

Laterz