We've been roasting coffee beans in Australia for over 15 years, and are proud to be a pioneer of online coffee bean shopping in Australia, launching around the same time as eBay in Australia and long before Amazon! Its been an exciting journey and a very rewarding adventure. Every day I am blessed with the pleasure of fresh roasting coffee beans and sending them all over Australia.

When you order from Coffee Bean Shop, your coffee is roasted, cooled, packed and lodged with Australia Post within hours of you placing your order. Our personalised service is unmatched and from the amount of emails and messages I receive from people that are grateful of our old fashioned customer service, its exactly what Australians deserve. 

Have you ever wanted to be behind the drivers seat of a coffee machine so expertly crafted that you are constantly in awe of the engineering and design that has been invested into that machine? Something that has been loved as much as you will love it? Introducing the Keyes Van Der Westen Spirit!

​ Just watching this machine in action is enough to inspire confidence in the espresso that is bound to be in the cup. You can even configure this machine with a seperate pump per group with dedicated water supplies. The barista has the ability to set a different pressure per group and different water treatments. 

​Great news for coffee lovers in Australia! Coffee Bean Shop remains open every day this Christmas and New year, except for public holidays. It would be a good idea to add an extra day to your delivery estimate to allow Australia Post a bit of extra time during this peak period - Santa's helpers are working hard!

Grab a bag of fresh roasted coffee now and maybe an extra bag as a gift.

Its hard to find a high quality drinking chocolate that is perfect for Hot Chocolate and also great as a sprinkle on Cappuccino. Cadbury'sand a few other Australian companies supply drinking chocolate, but its expensive and when it comes to your cafe or business, its just not good enough.

We've been providing our cafe customers with this 2kg pack of dark drinking chocolate for around ten years and have recently added it to the online store, so you can grab a bag anytime. This creamy drinking chocolate, which is actually better known as Milk Chocolate, but in the world of drinking chocolate, the name Milk Chocolate is reserved for white chocolate - confused? I certainly was. To make it easier, this dark chocolate is the one you'll use when making a hot chocolate, its also the chocolate you'd use for sprinkling on cappuccino. 

If you're buying this for home, and you've got kids in the house - 2kg will last you about a week... well, it feels like that in my house! Its going to last you a while, so you wont have to worry about running out in a hurry. It comes packaed in a zip lock resealable bag too. I sometimes share my bag with a family friend, but mostly keep it all to ourselves. If you're running a cafe, this is absolutely what you need to go with your coffee. 

Sunday is the day of the week where I can sit down with a coffee and reflect on the days gone by. No distractions, no disruptions, just me and a coffee and my mind.

I think of my Sunday morning coffee as 15 minutes of me time.Without it, I think my weekend would be very different!

A2 milk just costs more - that's a fact. But, is there a benefit?

The answer is yes, well, kind of yes. Let me explain. A2 milk benefits from a more consistent feed, and usually a higher quality feed, which results in a higher quality milk that also contains more proteins. All this goes for producing a better quality steamed milk - with a bit of technique, a velvet smooth and creamy milk for your flat white or cappuccino. 

If you don't want to pay the premium for a2 milk, there is an alternative in regular milk - reach for the full fat variety instead of the low fat alternative - the sugars in regular full fat milk will allow for a fuller and more creamy result compared to low fat milk or skim milk

I found myself a little short of time come mothers day, and a young 10 year old daughter that was yearning to express her creative flair - both important priorities, and it was at that moment I realised how cost effective, simple to prepare and rewarding this idea could be. 

I popped into our local supermarket and handed my daughter a shopping basket - that was perfect, because I really didn't want to have to shove an entire shopping trolley's worth of groceries into the resulting gift basket, because we all know that a girl will definitely shop until no more shopping can be physically done!

We filled the basket with all sorts of treats, biscuits, crackers, chocolate, grapes, cheese and a couple of bottles of wine - mostly for the appearance of the bottle, rather than the quality of the wine - I'm not that good at selecting great wines, so I just look for a nice looking label (typical guy huh!)

Armed with our goodies, we headed down to the dollar store and selected a suitable size basket to pop it all in. lined the basket with gift paper, placed everything in, and job done! we had enough change from $50 to grab a chocolate milkshake, a coffee and a muffin, each ;-)

This idea is so simple that I wont be waiting for mothers day in the future, its going to be an any-time gift. Just don't think less of me when one of the baskets contains a few more of the essentials, like apples, kraft cheese slices and a couple of bottles of milk - its the thought that counts, right?

If there is one thing in my life I will always make time for, it is coffee. And when that coffee can be enjoyed in a different way, I will push every other non-essential task on my plate right out of the way! 

Coffee and Tonic Water are a match made in heaven, and by heaven, I mean that cosy place you dream of where there is not a trouble in the world, ever. You have just one job this week, and that is to try Tonic Water mixed with Coffee Espresso.

Its so easy to prepare; grab a glass, extract a shot of coffee into the glass, add a couple of cubes of ice from the freezer and top it all off with cold Tonic Water - add a wedge of lemon or lime and call it 'knock off time'. 

Grab a comfy chair, sit back and enjoy your moment of sunshine in a glass.