Vittoria Coffee Organic Blend

Vittoria Coffee  Organic Blend

So I have my Jura Impressa F8 at home and we use the Breville BES860 with the Smart Grinder at work which gives me lots of opportunities to try a variety of beans at the same time.

A couple of weeks ago our local shops had the Vittoria  Organic Blend on special and i have had it at a cafe' once  before. I don't enjoy the normal blend but i didn't mind the organic. Its a darker roast but not a super dark roast. The flavours you get are a light cocoa / chocolate flavour but just. It's not bitter like the usual Vittoria beans and at a price of $25 a kg I could not complain but I would not pay $35 as for $40 you can get great locally roasted beans.

I am happy with the way it tastes and would get it it again if it's on special.
Have you tried Vittoria?
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Dale Stewart

Lavazza Latte Coffee

Lavazza Latte Coffee

Normally i am not a huge fan of Lavazza Coffee as most cafe's don't know how make it properly. Usually is burnt beans or excessively hot milk that burns your mouth on the first sip. The good thing is if you burn your mouth you can't taste it. Recently we got a coffee machine at work and our colleague brought a bag of Lavazza. I was worried that i would not like it but i gave it a go. I was so impressed with how it turned out, not super flavourful but smooth and no bitterness.

 Its great now i can start practising my latte' art :)
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Dale Stewart

Community Roasters

Community Roasters

Over the last few years i have tried a variety of different beans thanks to Tess. She is amazing addict( Coffee Addict ;) ) and  tells me where all the amazing coffee is at. She suggested Cote Terra and they generally use Reformatory Coffee for their espresso based drinks and i think the Community Roasters Beans for Milk based drinks. I ran out of coffee and grabbed a bag while in the area.

The milk blend is a great smooth blend with light fruity notes. Its great with a 3/4 Latte.
Its worth a try.
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Dale Stewart

Wise Old Goat Latte Coffee

Wise Old Goat Latte Coffee

Time has now become a valuable necessity, i don't have much spare time anymore so i have been getting my coffee from North East Precinct. They are about 15 minutes from our place and they roast onsite. I love supporting my local roasters as it usually fresher and tastier, It is more expensive but worth it. I saw a new roaster on Instagram a few months ago and wanted to give it a try. I ran out my coffee and had a chat to Andy from Wise Old Goat and i asked if he could deliver it to me. He roasts the next suburb from where i work. I ordered the coffee online and started work on Tuesday, he delivered it on Wednesday. I am so happy with the strength of the coffee and the flavours, it has a beautiful cocoa/ chocolate flavour. No bitterness which is great as well. I highly recommend giving it ago. Have a look at his Instagram account.
I get to try his filter coffee today so i hope that is just as amazing.
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Dale    

Commonfolk and Mornington Market

Commonfolk and Mornington Market

We have been to Commonfolk Coffee once before and the service was slow but i wanted to give it another go. Like the other Cafe's we like it is in an industrial area so it is a large place and they do all the roasting on site. It is light and airy and the staff are friendly.

It was a beautiful day so we all sat outside and watched the children run around and play. Its good to see a place that has space for children to run around.

They only use skim milk for all their coffees which i did not know. The coffee's are smooth and sweet but i still prefer full cream milk.

 I had the pikelets which had five of them with bacon and blueberry . The pikelets are light and fluffy, the bacon was not crispy so i was happy and they went well with the fresh blueberries.

Kim had the breakfast which had bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and a mushroom with some veggies. She really enjoyed it.

After Brunch we headed to the market and when we arrived it was still very quiet.

It had plenty of food stalls and bands playing in different corners. They do this market once a year so it was good to experience it.
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Dale Stewart

Common Ground

Common Ground

I know this makes no difference to my wonderful readers but my little Acer laptop that has traveled overseas had a malfunction so i had to format and reinstall everything and i installed Ubuntu. It has been one of those weeks as i needed to reinstall the operating system for my phone as well. The reason why i mention about my laptop as this is the first Blog it will do. I will try to do a blog daily when we are on holiday.

I love trying different Cafe's as it is always good to support other places not just your usuals. It was a cold and rainy day so we did not even leave the house until 2:30pm. It is a cute little cafe that serves a lot of gluten free food.

They do all the roasting on site so at least you know the beans are fresh.  They have a good selection of beans. Single Origin as well as your normal blends. I needed more beans so that was the reason we came.

We had some coffee that was smooth and a little bit fruity. Not as sweet as some other beans but not bad.

Some people hate latte art but i love how fun it is and not easy to do. If you follow me on Instagram you know how much i try and still don't get it right.

Kim had a chocolate walnut slice (it was gluten free). It was chocolaty and crunchy and was tasty. Sometimes gluten free products have a strange taste but it was perfect.

I had a yogurt muffin and it was light and fluffy for a gluten free desert. I know you might think why do i go on about gluten free. I know what it tasted like as i worked at a gluten free bakery for a few years as a baker.

In the last 5 years gluten free has changed so much in price and taste.
It is a good little Cafe and we we will be back  soon.
Follow them on Instagram if you like.
Thank you for reading
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Dale Stewart

Random Pics

Random Pics

Over the last few weeks I have taken random photos and should have loaded them up. I haven't so i am just putting a few of them up now.

We live about 30 minutes from the beach so every now and again we go for a drive and a bit of a walk. This is Mordiallic and it has a lovely pier to walk down, you can watch people fish and just sit around and chat. 

We went to the grain store and had an amazing meal. It had an awesome selection of food and the coffee was good. It was good to go to a different place for a change.

I have wanted to go to Chez Dre for a while and we finally went. The desserts are fantastic and really different.  The coffee was acceptable, not the worst but not amazing either. I hate being fussy when it comes to coffee.

We had pizza with Kims sisters on the weekend and we went to Gradi in the Casino. I love their pizzas,

We took our old dog Penny for the day on Saturday, we don't see her much as she lives with Kims parents. We had her for a while when we moved out but she could not handle not having company all the time and it was not fair being in a small yard.  We took her to a friends place and they have a Shiba Inu called Nana. Penny does not know how to play with other dogs and never did, she just spends her time smelling random things. She is almost impossible to take for a walk as all she wants to do is smell stuff so she will lie on the grass and not move. Beagles are really stubborn.

I hope you like the pictures and i will take more photos soon.
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Dale Stewart