Melbourne

MICE 2013 will bring together the World Barista Championship, the World Brewers Cup, the inaugural Global Coffee Review Symposium and Australia’s largest dedicated-coffee trade show, for a once in a lifetime event.

Hosting the World Barista Championships and World Brewers Cup, the MICE2013 will be the culmination of decades of hard work that have seen the Australasian industry develop what is now being recognised as one of the strongest specialty coffee scenes in the world.

Thanks to coaching I am incredibly lucky to have travelled half way across the globe in order to aid the Spanish Barista Champions 15 minute presentation.

Months of concepting, considering, creating and coffee tasting leads to one coffee, fifteen minutes, one trolley, seven judges, twelve espresso based drinks and countless hours of stress. This is what a Barista Championship consists of, and all in order to have a chance to convey an idea about a coffee.

Please follow us on Instagram : RobDunneIt & NomadCoffee

And wish Jordi Mestre well.

Dunne

I Love Legs

By Why The Friday

Dunne

Tasting Class

So we have got  2 date’s left for out tasting class before we take a summer break and return in September. They are:

May  11th

June 1st

The tasting class in a fun and enjoyable experience which covers a flavour deconstruction, coffee origins, processing methods and their effects on taste. As well as cupping some great coffee’s. Perfect introduction for any coffee lover to the colourful complex world of coffee. Suitable for anyone. 

So here is a short and sweet video we got made about it by Alice Wagstaffe 

We got a couple of spots left in each class and you can book all them through here. 

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The Noble Experiment

A Brooklyn Distillery.

Portrait of Bridget Firtle

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Horchata By DunneFrankowski

Horchata (/ɔrˈtʃɑːtə/; Spanish: [oɾˈtʃata]) or orxata (Valencian: [oɾˈtʃata]) is the name of several kinds of traditional beverages, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, or tigernuts (chufas).

Recipe:

6 Litres of Almond Milk

2 Cans of Rice Pudding

Honey 6 Tablespoons

White Sugar (Personal Taste)

1 Cinnamon Stick

6 Whole Cloves

3 Vanilla Pods

Ginger 3 grams Grated

NutMeg 1 Whole Nut

Dehydrated, 3 Ground Orange Zests

Procedure

Add 3 litres of Almond milk to a large pot and bring to a simmer, no need to boil as you only want to reduce it slightly and infuse all ingredients using heat to speed up the process.

Add the Honey to the Almond milk, and stir to dissolve. Take the vanilla pods and slice down the middle, splitting them open in order to scrap all the seeds and oils out, adding the pods and seeds into the milk.

Taking the Cinnamon stick and the cloves, I placed them in a herb blender and ground to a very fine powder, add to the mix. Followed by the Orange Zest, which was previously dehydrated in an oven at a low temperature of 40oC, when completely dried, add to blender and reduce to a fine powder, popping it into the mix also. Grate the Nutmeg into the milk and stir till completely saturated into mix.

Now add the Rice Pudding into the warm milk mix and blend using a hand blender, until fully homogeneous. The rice will increase the texture with a beautiful powdered mouthfeel, which will carry all the intense spices and draw out tasting experience.

Now add the remaining Almond Milk, adjusting spices if you feel necessary.

I have not mentioned a quantity for the white sugar as sweetness is purely a personal preference, so add in small increments until you find your balance.

Simply allow to cool before serving over ice and garnish with vanilla powder if you’d like, but not necessary.

Alternatively add a bottle of Tequila to your mix, again personal preference comes into play here, I was happy with 1 bottle , but most bar tenders will favour a 2 bottle measure, go figure.

Dunne

PERFUMERY TOOLS

BY

ANDREA STRATA

Strata’s focus is on the world of artistic perfumery, also known as niche perfumery. Perfumery Tools is a kit of five products for the buying process of a perfume. “Each tool provides not only support to sales, but also a different experience which can strengthen the image of a brand or a store.” says Strata.

Les Plis

“The ‘mouillettes’ on the market are usually simple strips of paper. Les plis introducesimple bends and cuts which allow a functional new shape of the product. By holding les plis, in fact, they take shape and the concavity allows to better experience the perfume. Les plis are made with 100% cotton paper.”

Le Petit Orgue

“Understanding the wishes of a customer is never easy. Le petit orgue allows the shop assistant to let the customer smell some commonly used essential oils to better understand which kind of perfumes he or she would like the best. The essential oils, diluted with perfumery alcohol, go up the glass capillary and slightly wet the cotton top. The simple lines want to show the initial stage of the creation of a perfume.”

Les Cloches

“The perfume is desaturated from alcohol and it is possible to smell its entire body. The base, the silk square and even the glass can be customized in order to better communicate the essence of the brand.”

L’Helice

“It is always curious to know what the others will smell the perfume you are wearing: l’hélice have been designed to do so. The perfume molecules in motion sollecitates the olfactory system enhancing the experience.”

+ perfumerytools.com

Dunne

Dial A Coffee

“Rotary Dial Phone merged with Arduino. Dial the # of cups you need, and the machine does the rest. Using the simplicity of a Hario V60 enables this beatiful and traditional experience.”

Nice little concept, I like how it opens up the process for your brewing pleasure. 

Dunne

FTSE - Sirvyvin

Some Tuesday morning beats to get you in a summer mood. 

Frankowski

One Year of DunneFrankowski Up Again

As part of UK Coffee Week our show is up again. This time at Timberyard

61-67 Old St, London EC1V 9HW.

So please come down to the private view & cupping from 6-8pm on Wednesday 24 April 2013 and support Project Waterfall. We’ve got a selection of coffee’s from Hasbean and a few experiments up our sleeve. 

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

DunneFrankowski

Monday Lunch Coffee Cupping

Our friend Calum aka the young barista, has been lucky enough to have been travelling lately and on his journeys has accumulated a cache of coffees.

On the table :

Coffee Collective

Kieni - Kenya

El Desarollo - Columbia

Solberg & Hansen

La Amistad - Columbia

Muchoki - Kenya

Tade - Ethiopia

Five Elephant

Buzira - Burundi

Sitio Canaa Obata - Brazil

Bonanza

Lekempti - Ethiopia

Jirmiwachu Yirgacheffe - Ethiopia

Drop

Huye Mountain - Rwanda

The Barn

Palma Real - El Salvador

Huye Mountain - Rwanda

Yukro - Ethiopia

Monday 1pm

Protein By DunneFrankowski
18 Hewett St
Ec2a 3NN

Fee For Cupping £5 

Be there if you wish to tickle your taste buds .

Dunne

Here are date’s for our upcoming coffee tastings over the next couple of months. 

April 20th 

May  11th

June 1st & 15th 

The tasting class in a fun and enjoyable experience which covers a flavour deconstruction, coffee origins, processing methods and their effects on taste. As well as cupping some great coffee’s. Perfect introduction for any coffee lover to the colourful complex world of coffee. Suitable for anyone. 

You can book all them through here. 

We also offer one to one barista classes and competition training which are catered to suite individual needs. From a notice, to a national champion we can help you get the knowledge you need.  Please send us an email if you’re interested and have any questions. A 3 hour coaching is £120. 

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Pirate Royalty Card

Here at DunneFrankowski we decided to create a card system which takes advantage of the fact that most loyalty cards are stored within the depths of your wallet, purses and handbags and never see the light of day again. 

We personally find the loyalty card system a coup out for genuine customer rapport and relationship building. If you can reach into your card holder and pull five or more cards, we see it as only a highlighter of how varied your loyalty actually is. 

We decided to create this cute little stamp which sits happily on any card converting them into a card you can use freely at Protein By DunneFrankowski. Feel free to take this card back to the original outlet and test their reaction to weather they value your loyalty or not. 

Pirate Loyalty at DunneFrankowski, any card will do. 

DunneFrankwoski 

Just Add More Green

Dunne

Urban Billy

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled:

As the the words to Waltzing Matilda go the swagman did not certainly have a billy like this. Designed by Elliat Rich this brings back Australian classic to a new contemporary aesthetic. 

Frankowski