Short Street Coffee Roasters

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1993 {Brookvale} I have had a wonderful life and journey in the world of coffee.These pictures remind me of a momentous ...
10/17/2021

1993 {Brookvale} I have had a wonderful life and journey in the world of coffee.
These pictures remind me of a momentous day in my coffee journey as this was the first time that I had actually shipped coffee as a pallet order.
The coffee was on its way to Amway Australia, it was packaged as 10 x 1 individual one cup filters.
To make filter coffee was so simple you placed the disposable filter on a coffee cup, pour/fill hot water into the unit, place a lid on and wait for the water to finish filtering through the coffee, take the lid off and turn upside and then lift the filter off the cup and place on the lid that acts as a coaster.
Drink and enjoy.

We had the sole packaging machine in the southern hemisphere that packaged coffee like this.
The packaging machine that put all this together was a maze of cams with trigger points to move many multiple points of action which included many air cylinders to operate in harmony and exact precision. I had to learn how to service and repair this all on my own. As well as being the sole roast master, production manager, QA, warehouse co ordinator.
Sadly back then plastic recycling was not a big thing so while it made making a good coffee simple it was not environmentally friendly
It was an exciting time as well as a challenging time to balance this together with a very young family.
If I had my time again there is not much I would change except to train others and delegate more to a like minded team.
The two others were Vijay our delivery driver and relationship manager (he had so much talent and skill which I wish I tapped into more) and David a student from China that stayed after the Tiananmen Square event.

1992 {Spokane} Reflecting back on the family influence on my coffee journey. Dad taught me to become obsessive in my int...
09/10/2020

1992 {Spokane} Reflecting back on the family influence on my coffee journey. Dad taught me to become obsessive in my interests. His passion became coffee and he would roast his own and was very proud of his gold plated lever La Pavoni espresso machine. Dad & I would often see things from different perspectives and lived out a common father/son story. Mum now continues to roast her own coffee as she had coffee in her veins as a result of her dad’s daily pot of coffee. My first memorable coffees were at Grandpa Gill’s from that old aluminium percolator on the stove. Coffee was part of the the whole family experience and even got passed down to young Andrew. The stories we could tell drinking that coffee infused with the 13th element on the periodic table out of those Fiestaware Mugs. Bittersweet memories, and this coffee family is complex.

1991 {Walsh Bay, NSW} The coffee business is a family affair! Robyn has been by Scott’s side from the beginning of his ...
07/22/2020

1991 {Walsh Bay, NSW} The coffee business is a family affair! Robyn has been by Scott’s side from the beginning of his coffee journey. Traditional values in Australia at the time had her at home minding the kids, though she often did things like child minding to help ends meet when she wasn’t coming down to help clean the offices and factory. A key cafe customer, Pier One Cafe had a great view of the historic Harbour Bridge. Toyota Hi Ace Vans are still a desirable delivery vehicle today. At this point in the story Scott was Roasting, Packing, Doing Maintenance, Account Management, Delivering Coffee and Sweeping the floor when his lovely wife wasn’t!

1991 (Grand Rapids) Two years before Kevin celebrates graduating with his Bachelors in Theology, Ordination and birth of...
07/17/2020

1991 (Grand Rapids) Two years before Kevin celebrates graduating with his Bachelors in Theology, Ordination and birth of his first son. He was hanging out in the dormitory he spent his first couple years at Grace Christian University. It was 1am and they were trying to solve the world’s problems. The conversation would spark an idea to create community in the marketplace by opening a cafe business. None of them had any idea how long it would take (10 years), and no one had any idea what a monumental project it would become. Coffee, people and the desire to change the world, at least for a couple people.

1991 {Sydney} Scott is doing the hard yards (American Grid Iron reference) as he is missing the Rugby to promote Danbrew...
07/09/2020

1991 {Sydney} Scott is doing the hard yards (American Grid Iron reference) as he is missing the Rugby to promote Danbrew’s innovative single cup portion brewer. The game was historic between New Zealand and Australia. “One of the best try saving tackles in Rugby Union history when Gregan tackled John Kirrwen as he was going over the try line and knocked it out of his hands!” Scott recounted. The interesting detail of this, is that it was part of an Amway product tour. What makes this curious is that Kevin has had his first coffee farm experience in the midst of mission work in The Congo and is returning to Grand Rapids, Michigan; the home of Amway International. These two guys are crossing paths without even knowing it, 6 degrees of separation, Kevin Bacon style! Scott has been part of innovation since the beginning.

1988 {Zaire, Africa} Kevin randomly ends up one day on an abandoned Robusta farm in Maniema Province in what is now the ...
07/09/2020

1988 {Zaire, Africa} Kevin randomly ends up one day on an abandoned Robusta farm in Maniema Province in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. He and his mate (who has mysteriously disappeared) are wearing a popular cloth that celebrates the then president Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga. Kevin and his wife of one year, Lisa, spent 2 years teaching English in a village high school in K**a, Zaire. The infamous trip to a remote river rapids with co-workers happened in an abandoned ancient Land Rover that backpackers had left behind. Kevin jumps at any opportunity to use his second language, Swahili, whether in Tanzania, Kenya or Blacktown 30 years later.

1989 (Hornsby) Just three years after Scott started his Danbrew journey. This is the earliest photographic record that w...
07/08/2020

1989 (Hornsby) Just three years after Scott started his Danbrew journey. This is the earliest photographic record that was pulled from a cardboard moving box that smelled strongly of cedar. Chasing a new passion for coffee after leaving Cost Accounting and juggling a young family while still getting into the surf at Avalon. The whole family loved the beach from the start and it didn’t take long for them to love coffee as well. Everyone has chipped in at some point and Amanda, who is pictured, has spent a bit of time helping dad with graphic brand development as well as coffee tasting. As a recently married young woman, she no longer spits up on dad’s work shirts.


1986 {Grand Rapids} Kevin has recently left The Pacific Northwest, the home of Starbucks and the source of the spread of...
07/07/2020

1986 {Grand Rapids} Kevin has recently left The Pacific Northwest, the home of Starbucks and the source of the spread of espresso through the U.S. At university he meets a girl from The Windy City who drinks 12 gigantic mugs of coffee a day. He doesn’t realise at this point he is about to embark on a 33yr journey with this woman. The building blocks for that relationship and a passion for community and coffee will begin on dates with her, playing backgammon and drinking lattes. Javasphere was the venue, a hot spot for the hip of the area to gather, providing a cool space, great coffee and curiously run by a strangely pleasant Satanist. Kevin and Lisa observe and participate in the community that showed up there. Lisa now drinks 3-4 normal mugs of coffee a day.


2020 {Sydney} Moving into a new neighbourhood, planning a sea change or even putting your stuff into storage can be a bi...
07/07/2020

2020 {Sydney} Moving into a new neighbourhood, planning a sea change or even putting your stuff into storage can be a big process. From our first post until now we have been shifting things around, searching through packed boxes in the garage and searching through Flicker, Apple Photos, hard drives and digging through those photo albums in the boxes. After peeling photos apart, scanning old snapshots and creating timelines we think we have the story together. A musician we both like did a series of albums entitled “The World As Best As I Remember It.” We will tell this story that will include some of our neighbourhoods, countries we have lived in our visited and house numbers we have inhabited. The moving truck is pulling into the street and two old dudes are carrying boxes up the driveway.

2020 When something new begins there is often a story that that lays the groundwork. Welcome to our neighborhood! Pour a...
05/26/2020

2020 When something new begins there is often a story that that lays the groundwork. Welcome to our neighborhood! Pour a coffee, and we will begin telling you the story that led to the establishment of this little community, welcome home!

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