Perth Coffee Blog by Ristretto

Back from AASCA in QLD, snuck in a quick NSW origin visit to...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:42:00 +0800

Back from AASCA in QLD, snuck in a quick NSW origin visit to Mountain Top Estate and slipped into Melbs. Coffee, coffee and more coffee! Full update soon. Some Ethiopian Amaro Gayo on the selves and in the grinder at Ristetto.

2010 AASCA Open Heats and National Barista Championships

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:00 +0800

Big coffee action this weekend… kicks off this Friday 28th January for 3 days at the Gold...

Let us assure you; if Ristretto had a mobile coffee service, it...

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:12:49 +0800

Let us assure you; if Ristretto had a mobile coffee service, it may very well look a little something like this!

First Coffee Cupping for 2010!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:16:00 +0800

Happy New Year. Ristretto is back trading regular hours; M-F 6:30 am through ‘til 3:15pm. This...

Early Closing Today and Holiday Trading Hours

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:36:00 +0800

Ristretto closes early today (Christmas Eve) at 11:30am. The shelves at Ristretto are stocked with...

We received a very special Christmas present at Ristretto -...

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:24:00 +0800

We received a very special Christmas present at Ristretto - finally our first shipment of a very special Grade2 Natural Process Ethiopian coffee from Amaro Gayo. Asnakech Thomas (Mill owner) is the only female producer, miller and exporter in the whole of Ethiopia. She leads with astounding commitment to quality and community paying a premium for the ripest sweetest coffee cherries, some 25% above the Fair Trade price, and then finishes the coffee to her exacting standards to create a fine, distinctive offering. Find; ripe succulent dark fruit and berries, semi sweet cocoa, molasses and syrupy sweet body. It opens up a bit more at light roasts and has a great overall tone and complexity for espresso a little darker. We’ve been looking forward to this tremendous coffee at Ristretto and cannot wait to roast and offer it in 2010. Thank you Asnakech, Kayd and Yesenia, Steve and Joseph and all the many others involved for getting this coffee out there and to us.

Ray’s cafe in Brunswick - a special place. I passed...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:07:00 +0800

Ray’s cafe in Brunswick - a special place. I passed through just a couple of weeks ago en route from the airport. Enjoyed a really neat espresso sweet and soft, balanced - perfect for an early Sunday morn pick-me-up, we’ll perfect anytime really. This room has some great history and to enjoy coffee there today is a good thing.

The picture above accomapnied a recent article by Matt Preston who looks back at a good decade of good and affordable food innovators in Melbourne. I really felt his passion here and will say I found it quite inspirational.

For awhile there things were a bit down in Melbourne in the mid-late 90’s. Amazing what can be achieved in a decade. Article link: My Delicious Decade

Herbazu Coffee Farm in Costa Rica’s West Valley region,...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0800

Herbazu Coffee Farm in Costa Rica’s West Valley region, Naranjo Zarcero area. This is an older video from early on this year which I remembered and dug up. It’s an interview with the farmers and a quick look at their micro mill with Transcend Coffee from Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. This was shot around the time the coffee we are currently drinking at Ristretto Perth was picked and processed, heck we that could be the beans we’re using being raked in the background!

Christmas and Holiday Coffee Gifts!

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:06:00 +0800

Whether it’s a treat for yourself or someone important to you if good coffee rules the day...

FREE Coffee Cup Tasting (Cupping) Session this, and pretty much...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:53:00 +0800

FREE Coffee Cup Tasting (Cupping) Session this, and pretty much EVERY Friday 1:30pm sharp at Ristretto Espresso Specialists Perth. This week: four fine East Africans roasted light/ for full flavour plus some espresso production roasts of Guatemalan, El Salvador, Brazilian and Sumatran coffees. Visit and taste, come and experience what it’s all about… GREAT COFFEE.

NOTE: No Cupping on Fridays until regular trading hours resume in early-mid Jan. See more recent post re Holiday trading hours above.

Update: Perth Food/ Foodie Blogs

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:37:00 +0800

Very recently a few of us had a look around the web for new Perth Food Blogs - we came up with a few...

NO ESPRESSO! Jennifer Murray has arranged a meet at WABA this...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:04:00 +0800

NO ESPRESSO! Jennifer Murray has arranged a meet at WABA this Sunday for Perth coffee folk keen to explore fine coffees via other than espresso brew methods. Look out for lotsa Single Origin Coffees and some purpose built filter blends. A few Ristretto peeps will be in and out and we’ll be bringing in some of our roasted coffees really special micro lot coffees well suited to pour over filter.

New Coffee First Cafe Openings in Melboure

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:00 +0800

On a recent visit to Melb I visited several top notch coffee first locations that had opened since...

NEW COFFEE JUST IN! El Injerto estate in La Libertad,...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:02:00 +0800

NEW COFFEE JUST IN! El Injerto estate in La Libertad, Huehuetenango, Guatemala (outlook pic above) is one of the farms that our new Single Origin Coffee offerings are from. Between now and Christmas new season green coffees for our roasting are arriving from Guatemala (about 5 select lots, including our direct trade - we love fine Guats), Ethiopia (this coffee is like berry jam!), Costa Rica (3 awesome estate coffees), Dominican Republic, bio-dynamic coffee from Brasil, a Nicaraguan, restock of the Kenyan Gethumbwini, a fine Sumatran, and a rock solid Colombian (sweet, toasty with some fruit flavours and acidity).

Sunbeam Cafe Series 6910 winners at Ristretto Perth

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:00 +0800

Congratulations to Steve “JBean1” who won 1st Place at Ristretto’s recent customer...

2010 WABC Weekend

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:15:00 +0800

Wow - what a big SPECIALTY COFFEE weekend! Thank you too all those that participated, volunteered,...

Coffee Cupping: Fridays 1:30pm coffee cupping sessions continue...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0800

Coffee Cupping: Fridays 1:30pm coffee cupping sessions continue at Ristretto. All things going well, this week’s will be a table of new arrival current crop, in season, coffees that we’ll be offering over the next few months. Also expecting some goodies from Mercanta the Coffee Hunters plus our first directly traded micro-lot coffees from Guatemala. All up the pedigree is rather high and we’ve worked hard to keep it that way in relation to shipping and storage - lots of quality from emerging producers plus some Cup of Excellence farms work.

A Big Weekend: WA Barista Championships

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:42:00 +0800

YES, that Weekend has just about arrived… 17 competing Baristas stepping up this Saturday and...

Independant Review - 5 top Perth Coffee Spots

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:42:00 +0800

Earlier this month A Bowl of Honey, a local Perth foodie blog, listed their 5 top places for coffee....

Be here: 2010 WA Barista Championships - 7&8 November, Mt...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:11:00 +0800

Be here: 2010 WA Barista Championships - 7&8 November, Mt Hawthorn Community hall, Scarborough Beach Rd