new name, website, location!

Please check us out from now on at

www.bunkercoffee.com.au

and on twitter and facebook using "bunkercoffee"

With the opening of the shop we decided to re-brand.

RIP Xococo. I loved the name...but no-one could say it!

Black Dove Xmas Goodie Bag

This week we did some prototyping and put together 75 single serve gourmet hot chocolates sachets for the Black Dove Christmas Goodie Bags.

Hole in the Wall (The Bunker) in Milton

After 2-3 months of tiresome, boring, research and work I finally put together and lodged a development application with Brisbane City Council to try to set up a hole in the wall cafe/outlet in Milton. 7xcopies of a 58 page report, a lot of forms and one whopping cheque got handed in begrudgingly by a now poverty stricken me. I should've tied it all up in red tape, but I'd dealt with enough preparing the report...

DIY Compak K10 Doserless Conversion Guide

While I was getting busy in the garage making the bottomless portafilters I decided to also have a go a converting my Compak K10 WBC Edition connical burr grinder into a doserless.

DIY Bottomless Portafilter How To – We’ve gone Naked

A detailed DIY guide for making your own bottomless (naked) portafilter and reasons for doing so.

Striptease

Part of the "3rd wave" espresso movement sometimes see's espresso outlets using naked portafilters.

Besides the fact that the espresso looks bloody cool coming straight out of the filter basket it also removes (read: minimal) another part of equipment that the coffee has to touch before reaching your cup. i.e. it's another thing that will no longer get caked with oils requiring regular cleaning otherwise messing with the flavour profile.

Farewell Dima

Dima (formally Dmitrij Cesniuk) has been working with us down at the markets for the last 9 months. Sadly, he is heading back to Lithuania this Wednesday.