Bluebird Coffee Roastery

Bluebird Coffee Roastery Specialty coffee roastery based in Howick, KZN. Roastery, cafe and webstore. International shipping!

01/09/2026

Roasting process in 10 videos 📈

Batching green coffee 🌈

Green coffee loaded into the roaster 📈

Where the magic happens 🪄

Into the cooling tray 🤝

Round and round she goes, until the coffee reaches room temperature

Into the hopper of the SOVDA Pearl Mini

Turning on the colour sorter 🌈

Defect beans removed from the batch ❌

Sorted coffee, ready to be packed and shipped to you legends 🫵

Awaiting going into the SOVDA Precision Fill for bagging 📦

31/08/2026

HOME

Formerly State of Mind, this blend is our staple medium roast espresso blend. With flavour notes of milk chocolate, caramel and honeycomb, this coffee has been a best seller since we launched it years ago. We felt it needed an updated name that encompassed everything we want this coffee to feel like: home.
Happiness, comfort and familiarity 🏡❤️☕
Expect the same beautiful coffees as the State of Mind, now with a new perspective.
This blend is made up of all specialty-grade coffees from Brazil and Burundi - read more about the specific producers on our website.

28/08/2026

Louis and Veronique founded Dak Coffee Roasters in Amsterdam in 2019. Since then, they have become one of the leading specialty coffee roasteries in the world. Now, 7 years on, Louis is able to lean in to his financial engineering skillset and Veronique is able to focus on her expertise in branding and marketing. Dak is a fascinating company, from their meteoric rise to their uncompromising approach to quality. Dario breaks all of it down with Louis in this episode of Coffee Made Me Do It.

Now available on all podcast streaming platforms.

What are the subscription coffees next month?Curated: Los Pirineos Bourbon EliteTaste coffee from trees that are over 10...
27/08/2026

What are the subscription coffees next month?

Curated: Los Pirineos Bourbon Elite
Taste coffee from trees that are over 100 years old 💯. Diego Baraona is the current custodian of his family farm, Los Pirineos. Since 1889, the Baraona family have been producing coffee in El Salvador, with 17 Cup of Excellence Awards under their belt. This coffee is from some of the oldest trees on their farm, taste cherry, red grape and blood orange 🍊

Best of Bluebird: Gesha Village Lot 133
Make the specialty coffee pilgrimage of tasting coffee from Gesha Village, Ethiopia. Gesha Village is one of the most historied producers of gesha in the world. This beautiful naturally processed gesha is tasting of red apple, rhubarb and honey.

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26/08/2026

Alo Coffee

We ship coffee, merch and equipment internationally 🤝🌍For webstore orders, simple input your address at checkout and get...
25/08/2026

We ship coffee, merch and equipment internationally 🤝🌍

For webstore orders, simple input your address at checkout and get a live quote.

For wholesale, fill in the form on our Wholesale page of our website and allow our team to guide you!

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Experimentation 🧪In the never-ending pursuit of flavour excellence, we’re always experimenting and adjusting our mindset...
24/08/2026

Experimentation 🧪

In the never-ending pursuit of flavour excellence, we’re always experimenting and adjusting our mindset.
Luhle sourced these beautiful Better Vessels for competition a few months back (thanks for the hook up Scott Rao !), and we have been truly astounded by the results. Cleaner, brighter espressos that absolutely sing.

Luhle spoke to this in his Nationals set:
“Crema contains bitter compounds, CO2, coffee fines and oils. These elements combined hinder our ability to taste desirable sweet fruit flavours with clarity. In this way, drinking espresso with crema can be compared to looking through a dirty window. I can see the other side, but not clearly. Removing the crema allows us to clean that hazy window and experience our flavours clearly.”

It’s fun to play with coffee, we salute the innovators pushing specialty coffee onwards and upwards ❤️

VUNGA WASHED 🇷🇼🍑🍊🇷🇼🌸
22/08/2026

VUNGA WASHED 🇷🇼🍑🍊🇷🇼🌸

21/08/2026

Barista Comps, we are out. After 5 years of showing up on the competition stage, we’ve decided it’s not for us.

Dario opens the new season of Coffee Made Me Do It with Luhle, Bluebird’s Wholesale Manager. Luhle just finished 5th at the South African National Barista Champs. In this episode, he breaks down his preparation, his approach to competition and they discuss Bluebird’s role in competition in the future.

20/08/2026

New Rwandan coffee: VUNGA WASHED 🇷🇼❤️

A woman-led washing station in Nyamasheke, Rwanda ✨ This classic washed coffee is a celebration of its roots, singing in your cup as if you’re actually visiting the Vunga washing station. The smallholder farmers in this area have twice produced coffees that placed in the Cup of Excellence competition, and this Red Bourbon makes it clear why the genetics of this coffee is so aclaimed. A Classic Rwandan profile, with stonefruit sweetness dancing around your palete on the first sip, reminding us of apricot not only in flavour, but texture too

Address

36 Main Street
Howick
3290

Opening Hours

Monday 07:30 - 16:00
Tuesday 07:30 - 16:00
Wednesday 07:30 - 16:00
Thursday 07:30 - 16:00
Friday 07:30 - 16:00
Saturday 07:30 - 16:00
Sunday 07:30 - 15:00

Telephone

0823061935

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