Our Story
From day one, we’ve been trailblazers
In the 90s we carved our own path, exploring new horizons that paved the way for Specialty Coffee before the term ‘Specialty Coffee’ existed in Australia. Fast forward to today, and we’ve been awarded the 2018 and 2019 Champion Australian Roaster by the Australian International Coffee Awards (AICA). In 2020, we were the most awarded coffee roaster with a further 20 medals across all brewing categories at AICA, and after a break in competition in 2021, 2022 brought further gold medal success.
In recent years it totals a record haul of 85 gold, silver and bronze medals in recent years, winning Gold in all categories including Milk blends, Filter, Espresso Blends, Single Origin and Cold Brew.
In 2024, we celebrate 30 years of roasting and retailing Specialty Coffee and more than 25 years of teaching baristas and coffee lovers world-wide about flavour-filled coffee.
While our hospitality landscape continues to be challenged, our accomplished and experienced team offer a fresh adaptive approach to your cafe, always unearthing exciting new flavours for you to experience at home, in your office or at a Danes cafe.
Flavour is our focus
Passion for flavour is what drives and challenges us. It guides every element of our roastery, retail, training and café supply. Our consistency in roasting, flavour profiles and sourcing only Specialty Coffee beans allows us to create our award winning coffees.
We want to help to show you how coffee flavour can vary through the expression of sweetness, aroma, body and finish – to help you define and experience your favourite flavour.
You can use the flavour pentagon on each bag of our coffee to quickly get an idea of how each roast will taste. And our Chocolates and Caramels – Nuts and Spices – Fruits and Berries percentage pentagons can quickly identify each coffees flavour tribe.
You’ll also find our brew guide with ratios, temperature and key info so you can nail an amazing coffee at home or at the office quickly and easily.
Join us
Join us at our Sydney CBD store, Infusion on Clarence, or the Danes Drive-In at our Brookvale Roastery to explore our full range of coffees brewed how you like it. With champion single origins, milk blends, batch and cold brew we have an amazing array of coffees and roast profiles for every taste and palette.
And while you are at Brookvale pop upstairs to our showroom and coffee bean gallery and chat with our team to find the coffee just right for you, or for the full coffee experience where we open our roastery and show you how we roast our award-winning coffees. You can book online for all our upcoming events and courses.
We hope to see you soon at our roastery or one of our café partners for a chat over a cup of some of Australia’s best coffees.
