Zeps

09/10/2023

Two days before our closure Archana Brammall stood like an Angel in the part empty cafe that was. And I cried! In that moment I felt something so good ✨ Sweetbrew Campbell Town you will be embraced and I wish you all the very very best.
A note to old friends and custom - if you don’t know it, try it and trust it. It’s the real deal 🤎

All our love, Hayley & Indy 🫶🏻

BIG NEWS INCOMING!

First things first: please meet Yorick Fitzgerald.

Almost 10 years ago now, a young barista had dropped in his resume and no sooner had he walked down the street 5 meters we chased him to say, "hey, we actually do have a job going, we would love you to join us".

There started a journey together of colleagues, a strong friendship, care and hard work, ups and downs but above all - a loyalty and respect of each other, which centered around our mutual love of coffee. We are so grateful for it all.

Today, we are so proud to not only acknowledge that journey together but also announce him as our newest business partner!

Yorick is now part-owner (along with Aaron, Tim and Archana) of our new venture, Sweetbrew Coffee House - CAMPBELL TOWN!

We're incredibly excited about this next step together so please join us in congratulating Yorick - and while you're at it, here are a couple of things to know about him!

How I have my coffee:
Strong almond latte first up, an espresso or two, then filter for the rest of the day.

When I'm not working in the cafe, I'm:
Mountain biking, hanging with my doggo, or at the gym.

A country I would love to visit:
Anywhere around the Mediterranean.

My favourite place in Tasmania:
We're so lucky, it's all so beautiful, but Mt Field is a highlight.

If I wasn’t doing my present trade I would be:
In the events industry.

Favourite quote:
"We don't remember days; we remember moments"

Yorick Archana Tim Aaron

17/02/2023

September 2000 - February 2023

26/11/2022

LAST SATURDAY NIGHT EVER!
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25/11/2022

JUST THREE NIGHTS LEFT!!
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23/11/2022

Gold 🤎 Tubes - that was pretty heartfelt! Trying to keep them alive 🙏🏻

On their trip to Latrobe, Woody and Producer Rhea called in to Zeps Cafe and picked Tubes up one of their famous snickers bars. Listen as Woody chats with Zeps Cafe Manager Chris Rigby, and Tubes gets emotional tasting the iconic chocolate.

19/11/2022

Our dear friends.
We will not be open these coming Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evenings for Pizza as first indicated.
Our final nights will be as follows:

Sunday 20th

Thursday 24th
Friday 25th
Saturday 26th
and finally,
Sunday 27th 🖤

Thank you - With all my love x

16/11/2022

Remember Kyle from Sometimes people just drop in the right place at the right time. I really like what he shares and stands for. He makes me think! Think things I’m already thinking.

Me: ‘What do you mean, you’re out of toilet paper?’
Him: ‘They won’t bring me any.’

I’m Tasmanian to my bones, but I’ve been having these thoughts lately. Is Tasmania really the paradise isle I thought it was? People joke I make Tasmania out as a dark place, but over the past 11 months Tasmania Gothic has been taking on a whole new meaning to me.

Earlier today I was on the phone to a remandee in the newly built Southern Remand Centre at Tasmania’s Risdon Prison. He’s a Tasmanian Aboriginal man who has an incredible ability to articulate his thoughts and explain things, someone I admire deeply as a story consultant and a bringer of uncomfortable truths, and who has explained a lot of how the world looks from a different perspective.

Today, in the process of explaining to him some new opportunities coming up for sharing stories, exciting ways to see things done that haven’t been done before, I hear shouting in the background of our call. He said it’s other remandees shouting. It’s because they can’t have toilet paper.

‘You’re out of toilet paper? Did I hear right?’

He had none. I find out the guards have told them there’s none left in their unit. Because Wednesday is always a lockdown day & and he’s not allowed to leave his cell, he has no options. As if to prove it to me, I listen in as he then shouts out to a guard to bring toilet paper. He comes back to the phone and tells me the response was a shrug, and that there is none. He shouts out to them, ‘You treat people like animals, why are you surprised when they act like it?’ The phone hangs up as he’s only permitted 10mins to speak to me before it cuts out. It costs him about $3 each call.

He calls me back 3 hours later. He has still not had toilet paper. He said he’d asked, and the guard yelled back at him, ‘Have a shower!’ He’s gone to have a shower, and the hot water has been turned off.

Remand is an interesting thing to write about in a character because it’s limbo, you’re not guilty or innocent, you are stuck until you’ve been processed. Something the community doesn’t know is that it costs about $122,000 per inmate, per year, to be held in Tasmania’s Risdon Prison. Today, there’s currently over 600 in Risdon. This gentleman has been on remand for 11 months. Remand = being held in custody but yet to have had your court case.

Storytelling is what I am to my bones. But after these last 11 months, I’m questioning the foundations of what Tasmania is built on.

This photo is one I took on gravel backroads to Lake St Clair, the deep & freshwater heart of Tasmania, where I wanted my next book to be based. The setting didn’t work. Sometimes the story you want to tell doesn’t fit where you wanted it.

- Kyle Samuel Perry, 16th of November, 2022

*UPDATE: He was not provided toilet paper until 10:30am the following morning, 17th of November

14/11/2022

Remember guys, 2 weeks left to get your pizza fix!

5pm-8pm- takeaway only!

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