The Latest News and What's Roasting from Rumble Coffee

The café scene in Ballarat has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. There's a few spots that offer both great coffee, and delicious food, including some cafes that have stood the test of time, and other newcomers who are really raising the standard for good coffee and cafe food offerings. 

We are so excited to launch our latest single origin coffee, Kenya Gakuyu-ini. Our rotating single origin menu always aims to showcase the best in specialty coffee, and take you on a flavour-filled coffee experience around the coffee world.

Alternative milk! What is it good for? Which works best with coffee and why isn't it soy?

Rumble joined forces with La Marzocco and Barista Technologies last week at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo. It was a great opportunity to see coffee lovers unite with roasters and equipment manufacturers and celebrate the coffee industry, and it's growth and innovation across the world.

Brewing coffee is all about flavour. The best specialty coffee in the world can be ruined if brewed badly. But by using tools like refractometers and ideas like brew ratio and extraction percentage, we can improve the extraction process and give you a good cup of coffee.

Opening a beautiful coffee shop with delicious food, banging coffee and tremendous service is no longer enough. It never has been. New customers need to know about you so they can visit. Will it be through word of mouth, Instagram or google searches? You need to cover them all and more.

All cafe owners know that the best coffee, the most passion-filled barista, and the most stunning cafe in Melbourne can't do much, if the coffee machine stops working mid service - and that's a stressful moment. Which is why it's so important to service your machines regularly.

Right from Rumble's beginnings, we've been passionate about looking after the planet. And there's a lot of things we can be doing on an individual and organisational level to do this, and one of them is recycling where we can. So here's how to recycle our coffee bags!

As a cafe owner, keeping your coffee machine operating at its best while having no downtime is crucial to your success. Routine coffee machine servicing ensures you make fantastic coffee all the time. It also means you are doing everything to ensure your equipment doesn’t break down during service.

Customers don’t want to spend their morning break in a long wait line, and technology can help in optimising quality and efficiency. Here are some of the best tools to streamline your cafe workflow.

So, you've made the investment, and bought your business one of the best coffee grinders on the market; The Mahlkonig E80. Regular cleaning of your grinder is one of the best ways to keep it in peak condition. Here's how!

How much should a good cup of coffee cost? What are you paying for when you buy a coffee? And how does cheap coffee impact the industry we love so much?