Meet your Roaster: Kat is a coffee professional with diverse experience in the industry, having worked as a barista, roaster, and consultant. She has also published 25 issues of her magazine, Coffee People Zine, which celebrates the creative talents of individuals in the coffee world.

What stories can a coffee cocktail tell?

We embarked on an ‘origin trip’ to explore how coffee and alcohol first met, how the first coffee cocktails were born, and how we can use them to unveil untold stories. 

Thanks to platforms like Discord, Home-Barista, and Reddit, coffee lovers share ideas across time zones daily. In his essay, Lance Hedrick, under some duress, admits what he owes the enthusiast community for shaping his approach to coffee.

In order to celebrate splendorous feats of aesthetic imagination, we asked collector Henk Langkemper to choose a few choice specimens from his extensive collection of vintage espresso machines, and boy did he deliver!

Jodie Williams has lived a fuller life than most. A newly retired Olympic and championship sprinter, she’s spent much of her life on the track and travelling the world to compete at the highest levels. We speak to her about mental toughness, beating plateaus, and the next big challenge: a new career.

Many of us in coffee often gaze wistfully at our wine counterparts, envisioning ourselves pouring bottles at candlelit tables or tinkering with barrels in a subterranean cellar. Australia may be the most affected by this longing, boasting a dynamic vinicultural scene that, like coffee, allows fruit and place to shine.