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Made with love is not just a throwaway line in our business.   Luca Venturelli (our founder) is a young, dynamic, passionate, coffee roaster. After completing university where he studied all aspects of coffee, he spent 2 years working with coffee growers in South America. On returning to Italy he put in to practice his art for carefully choosing and...

We read on July 5th, 2017 how Shark Tank Australia facilitated a deal to invest $2.5million into an Australian company that is setting itself to launch the ‘first Australian standard biodegradable coffee capsule’.   We love to see others working hard to catch up to what Lucaffe has been doing for the last 20 years! We have written several times about...

Here at Lucaffe, we are proud of the minimal environmental impact our coffee has. Our Lucaffe pods are a 7-gram compressed wafer of coffee encased in a permeable food grade paper. But what to do with them when you’ve  finished your coffee. Well, to help you out we’ve put together an infographic called 8 Simple Ways to Recycle Used Coffee...

Can you make a statement with your coffee machine?  We like to think so. But some lovers of coffee like to take it to the next level when making their next cup of coffee.   We’ve found some of the most unique and amazing machines that people use to make their daily cup. #1 Steampunk Coffee Machine by Dutch Lab...

Coffee machines are a bit like pets; the quality of their companionship is a  reflection of how their owner treats them. It’s not a difficult process, it’s just about reading the signals it sends you. The more you love and understand your machine, the more it’s going to love you back… with great tasting coffee (ok, done with the pet...

June 2014 … A mid winter holiday to Byron Bay, our little slice of heaven in the perfect environment. Midway through this beautiful break, I had a powerful Light Bulb moment which we now realise exactly 5 years later,  has completely changed how we deal with the most important element of our business … the used ESE Coffee Pod. Since...

Do you ever pause to think about where that cup of coffee in your hand comes from? It never ceases to amaze me how many hands that the coffee I drink every day passes through before it reaches my cup. Coffee farmers in their plantations lovingly plant coffee trees by hand on the steep slopes of mountains. These plants need...

After we started Lucaffe Australia, one of the things we thought would happen is that we would become immune to the delicious smell of our coffee, BUT NO, every day we come to work and open one of our ESE espresso pod packets the aroma is a real joy, still! When we started in 2009, smart phones were still a...

Lucaffe has 9 different blends and single origin coffees and it can be confusing as to which one to try. We decided that it would be interesting to ask each of the team at Lucaffe Australia which coffee they drink and how they drink it. GR You’re chief bean around here, how do you take your coffee? I love a...

It’s been a really hot summer, so hot in fact that sometimes the prospect of having to endure a hot beverage outweighs the want for the caffeine it contains. Cold brew is a really simple method of making cold coffee, as long as you can give it a little bit of patience. It takes a little bit of adjusting with...

Love the smell of coffee? the delicious flavour and smooth feeling lingering in your mouth? … not to mention that stolen moment it gives you through the day? There’s a reason you feel all of those good things. Research over the last decade is showing that habitually drinking 2-4 shots of good quality coffee each days may be good  –...

All good Italian style coffee begins with an espresso shot or two. Here, in Australia, the vast majority of coffee consumed is based on espresso. Flat whites, cafe latte, cappuccino, long black, mocha, piccolo, macchiato are all based on an espresso shot. Therefore it is important to achieve the best quality espresso as it dictates the quality of your coffee...

I moved to Australia almost ten years ago, and I still can remember the first day I tried to order a takeaway coffee, I said: “A medium coffee with milk, please” and the barista looked at me and asked: “so, would you like a flat white, a latte or a cappuccino?” – How many options for a coffee with milk?!Looking...

When we started to think about coffee we didn’t start with one coffee to suit our tastes. We thought about you, the coffee drinker. We thought about differences in all our family, friends, business acquaintances, our current and new customers. We then set about creating a range of coffees that would suit a variety of personalities and tastes. Some of you...

Aaaaaah, coffee …..  the aroma, the flavour  .. But, does coffee have any health benefits, you might ask yourself?  We have done some research on the health benefits of coffee and found that yes, yes it does! We all have our favourite ways to drink it, and our favourite time to drink it: Flat White, out with friends. Long black,...