Veneziano Launches Nitro Coffee at First Pour Brisbane

Announcement posted by Harvest Ideas 11 Mar 2015

Media release - November 2014

Not to be missed!

Brisbane: Monday, November 24 - To celebrate the arrival of Nitro Coffee, First Pour Brisbane are holding a launch event onsite on Monday November 24 from 5.30pm. Roasters, specialty cafe representatives and industry folk are invited to come along and try Nitro Coffee. The event includes cupping of the newly arrived Ninety Plus coffees, amongst the world’s best, with Australian Barista Champion Craig Simon of Think Tank Coffee, and is bound to excite those in attendance.

Veneziano Coffee Roasters’ specialty cafe and showroom First Pour at West End, Brisbane, is set to receive the first install of the newest, sought after cold brew offer, Nitro Coffee; a nitrogenated coffee beverage on tap inspired by draught beer.

First demonstrated at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) on the Veneziano stand in May this year and at Sydney’s Coffee Experience in September, the Nitro Coffee concept attracted wide attention from hundreds of cafe owners all around Australia and overseas. The install marks the first of many to be rolled out across Australia.

Veneziano managing director Craig Dickson says, “Nitro Coffee allows cafes to offer customers a visually exciting cold brew coffee with an alternative mouthfeel to espresso based coffees, in a whole range of serving options including, with or without milk, additions such as alcohol, flat or nitrogenated”.

“Serving Nitro Coffee requires minimum effort on the part of the barista, is speedy and does not create any mess, which is another part of it’s appeal”, he explains.

The multi award-winning specialty coffee roaster, together with Australian Barista Champion Craig Simon, has chosen specific microlot coffees and seasonal blends to work with the Nitro Coffee system.

Craig Simon’s consultancy Think Tank Coffee is entrusted as the exclusive distributorship of Ninety Plus coffees in Australia and New Zealand. Ninety Plus is renowned for producing innovative flavour profiles and some of the world’s most exclusive coffees.

Features of cold brew Nitro Coffee system:

Three second pour time
Consistent coffee quality in every glass
Serve it black or with milk
Ideal base for flavoured and alcoholic beverages
Three month shelf life
100% recyclable, disposable, lightweight 20L kegs integrate easily into the retail environment
Low maintenance equipment
Low establishment costs
Available in two tap font combination

Veneziano provides the roasted and brewed coffee for the kegs, working with nitro equipment provider and maintenance company, Coffee Keg, to supply the Nitro Coffee apparatus to cafes and Xtracted Espresso Solutions for the install. The hardware consists of fonts with two taps, each allowing for nitro and flat coffee if desired and also European standard recyclable kegs for under bench placement.

About Veneziano Coffee Roasters - established 2000

Specialty roasters; award winning blends, exclusive micro-lot coffees and

contract roasting; supporter of direct trade with producers and cooperatives;

on-site quality coffee training and education by professional baristas; First Pour cafe espresso bars, brew bars and coffee showrooms; home of Australian barista, latte art, cupping and roasting champions; licensed Q Cuppers and World certified judge; professional espresso machines, grinders and equipment for cafe and home; Australia’s largest distributor of Chemex Coffeemakers and Inker Cups, recipient of countless roaster and barista awards and proud supplier to over 500 of Australia’s best cafes.

The First Pours are located at:

SA - 111 Melbourne Road, Adelaide

QLD - 369 Montague Road, West End Brisbane

VIC - 26 Bond Street, Abbotsford, VIC