Adelaide Coffee Roasters Guide
The Independent Adelaide Roasters Worth Knowing About
Adelaide has a specialty coffee scene that most of Australia hasn't caught up with yet. Twenty-two independent South Australian roasters, grouped by where they are.
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Where South Australia roasts
Fifteen roasters in our rotation, grouped by where they are, plus seven more we rate but don't stock. Tap an area to jump to it.
Ask most Australians where the country's best specialty coffee comes from and they'll say Melbourne. Some will say Sydney. A few might mention Brisbane. Almost nobody says Adelaide.
That's mostly geography. Adelaide's specialty scene has been building quietly for years, away from the food media spotlight, supported by roasters who genuinely care about sourcing, consistency, and the kind of cup that holds up to scrutiny.
We started Allways Coffee because we thought more people deserved access to that scene, wherever they were in Australia. The whole point is discovery: you shouldn't need to live near a particular suburb or know the right people to taste what independent SA roasters are doing.
The fifteen roasters grouped by area below are all in our rotation. At the end you'll find seven more South Australian roasters we rate but don't stock, because a guide that only lists our own suppliers isn't much of a guide.
CBD & East End
2 roastersBoth inside the square mile, and both with cafes you can sit in.
IN THE ROTATION
Elementary Coffee
Young Street, city + Torrensville
"We're Brad and Carly, and for over 20 years, we've been part of Australia's dynamic coffee scene, now calling Adelaide home." Elementary is a roaster, a wholesaler and the operator of a couple of the better cafes in town, at 9-17 Young Street in the city and 2 Jervois Street in Torrensville.
"At Elementary coffee, we roast small-batch specialty coffee with a focus on sustainability and quality. We partner with farmers who share our commitment to ethical sourcing." Weekly quality cuppings and strict roast profiles keep it consistent. The Young Street Blend is named after the roastery cafe address, which is the sort of detail that tells you where their head is at.
Read the full Elementary Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
My Kingdom For A Horse
Adelaide CBD
Founded by Emily Raven and Rachel Mead, and "part of the fabric of the Adelaide community for over 10 years". Raven brings more than 35 years in professional cookery and hospitality; Mead holds a Master of Management from Macquarie. You'll find their coffee at 11 Waymouth Street, 185 Pirie Street and 60 King William Street, plus their sister restaurant A Prayer for the Wild at Heart on Hurtle Square.
"Our multi award winning coffee is roasted by us in Adelaide." The beans are seasonal and specialty grade, bought according to availability, some directly from farms and some through specialist buyers. Small detail worth having: the milk is farm-direct from Tweedvale in the Adelaide Hills.
Read the full My Kingdom For A Horse profile →
Inner west
2 roastersFindon and Hindmarsh, where a lot of the actual roasting happens.
IN THE ROTATION
Altura Coffee
Findon (Grange Road)
"Adelaide born, raised and roasted. We started in Beverley, Adelaide, in 1999." Twenty-seven years later they're at 253 Grange Road in Findon, two generations in, still family owned. They roast daily, which is why the coffee arrives fresh rather than having sat in a warehouse.
The roastery has a cafe attached with glass doors at the back, so you can watch the roasting happen while you drink. Ask them how the place runs and you get this: "We keep it in house, all under one roastery roof. From our delivery drivers and phone reps to our coffee roasters and machine techs, we do everything ourselves." Also this, which tells you plenty: "We're not here to reinvent coffee or save the world one cup at a time."
Read the full Altura Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Coffee in Common
Hindmarsh
A small-batch roastery and cafe in a warehouse space on Bacon Street in Hindmarsh. They describe themselves in about as few words as possible: "we're an adelaide, south australian based roastery." Three house blends anchor the range, named Heaps Good, More Juice and Nightcap, with singles rotating alongside them.
"Our smallbatch roastery allows us to rotate fresh new and exciting coffees all year round." They've carried Ninety Plus coffees and a Peru Geisha, which is a stronger signal of intent than most roasteries this size would attempt.
Read the full Coffee in Common profile →
North & north-east
6 roastersThe biggest cluster on the page: Glynde, Windsor Gardens and Athelstone, plus a few who ship rather than open a door.
IN THE ROTATION
1645 Coffee Roasters
Glynde
"We are a family run specialty coffee roasting business based in Adelaide, South Australia." That's how they introduce themselves, and the rest follows from it. Quality, ethics and honest service sit at the core of it, and they buy green from importers they trust rather than chasing novelty.
Three blends carry the range: Heirloom, Harvest and Hummingbird, alongside rotating single origins. The name is a date rather than a number. 1645 is when the first coffee house in Europe opened, in Venice.
Read the full 1645 Coffee Roasters profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Charlie Black Coffee Co.
Pooraka
"Established in 2020 Charlie Black Coffee Co. is a family-owned business that prides itself on roasting great coffee in Pooraka South Australia." There's over thirty years of combined experience behind it, and it shows in the setup: three roasters, including a one kilo machine kept for micro lots and sample roasting.
They also run a proper in-house barista training facility stocked with Victoria Arduino, Slayer and Mahlkonig gear. That's a serious amount of equipment for a business five years old, and it tells you which side of the business they care most about.
Read the full Charlie Black Coffee Co. profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Monastery Coffee
Windsor Gardens
"Roasted by the mindful, for the inquisitive." Monastery has been going since 2013, out of Windsor Gardens, built around traceability in a way not many Adelaide roasters were attempting at the time. "To us 'traceable' designates two key things, quality and provenance."
"We value the artisanal over the industrial and people over profits," they say, and "we only roast coffee beans that are sourced in an ethical, transparent and responsible manner". In January 2018 the Australian Specialty Coffee Association named co-founder Adam Marley Australia's top-ranked roaster, which is about as good as it gets in this country.
Read the full Monastery Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Kindred Coffee
Adelaide
Co-founders Alex and David started Kindred in 2019 with a clear mission, "Brew Good. Do Good.", between them having worked in and around specialty coffee for a combined 35 years and more. They began as nomad roasters, renting shared spaces and putting every spare hour into sourcing green.
They now run their own facility with "two Probat roasters, a P5 and P12, as well as a Kaffelogic for sample and competition coffees". The freshness is the part worth knowing: they store green, roast, pack and dispatch all within the day of roasting.
Read the full Kindred Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Peninsula Coffee
South Australia
A micro roastery with an origin story unlike anyone else on this list. "Our team is rooted in Korea, built by roasters and baristas with years of experience. Though Korean by nationality, we bring together more than a decade of work across the United States, Australia, and Korea to offer new perspectives and experiences in coffee."
That's a genuinely different set of reference points to bring to Adelaide coffee, and it shows in what they choose to roast. They share green beans with the local community as well as selling roasted, which is rare. Their line is "Bound by the Between", which suits a roaster working across three coffee cultures.
Read the full Peninsula Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Elusive Coffee
Athelstone (roastery: Somerton Park)
The newest roaster in our lineup by some distance, founded in September 2024, run out of Athelstone and roasting from a shared space at Somerton Park. Small operation, clear values: "We work directly with sustainable farms, so our beans are traceable from crop to cup." Clean, sustainable, fair is how they put it on the tin.
The part most people miss is why they do it. They're in it to "offer love and hope to those in need through the proceeds of a great cup of coffee". You'll also find them at markets around Adelaide, including the Adelaide Hills Farmers Market at Mount Barker, Stirling Laneways and Gilles at the Grounds.
Read the full Elusive Coffee profile →
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Pick your coffee →South & the coast
2 roastersBlackwood down to Glenelg, the suburban end of the scene and none the worse for it.
IN THE ROTATION
b3 Coffee
Blackwood (roastery: Somerton Park)
"With humble beginnings, b3 Coffee opened as a roast house in 2016. Ben Laakmann set up a store on the main street in Blackwood." It worked well enough that the roast house became a cafe, and the roasting has since moved to a dedicated site in Somerton Park. In 2018 the business welcomed Shana Knowles as co-owner, and both still actively work in it.
"Our three core values are coffee, quality and community." Not a surprising set of values for a specialty roaster, but the Blackwood cafe still trades seven days and they run a training arm, b3 Coffee Academy. They mean the community part.
Read the full b3 Coffee profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Bobby's Coffee
Warradale + Glenelg North
"In 2021 we set out to open a small coffee shop in the easy going suburban streets we grew up in. 2022 began and we stumbled upon a simple row of shops which we now call home." That home is a fifty square metre shop beside the train line in Warradale. In 2024 they added a second site in Glenelg North, just off Anzac Highway.
The vision, in their words, was "to bring no fuss specialty coffee to the locals through an unassuming row of shops in the backstreets of the burbs". Everyday coffee for everyday people, roasted out of an Adelaide roastery, each coffee roasted to suit its profile and aiming for balance, clarity and consistency in the cup.
Read the full Bobby's Coffee profile →
Adelaide Hills
2 roastersTwenty minutes up the freeway, and worth the drive on a weekend.
IN THE ROTATION
Vice Coffee Roasters
Adelaide Hills
"Sustainably grown. Ethically sourced. Roasted in the Adelaide Hills. By women, for everyone." Vice is a female-owned boutique roastery, and the sourcing follows the same thinking: their coffees are ethically and sustainably sourced, "prioritizing female producers wherever possible". The aim, as they put it, is to highlight the hard work of producers at origin.
Since they started, 10% of the profits from online sales have gone to charity. The coffee names are worth the visit on their own, Basic Babe and Naughty Nonna among them, and the house line is hard to argue with: coffee should be the one vice you never have to apologise for.
Read the full Vice Coffee Roasters profile →
IN THE ROTATION
Two Fish Coffee
Adelaide Hills
"Based in Adelaide, we have been involved in roasting, brewing and enjoying coffee for nearly 8 years." Coffee is roasted to order every single week rather than sitting in stock, and they're specific about when to drink it: "We recommend that the best brewing window is between 7 and 21 days after the roast date."
On sourcing they put it plainly: "We believe that the best and most outstanding coffees are obtained by working directly, sustainably and ethically with the producers themselves." The result is that the vast majority of their coffees can be traced back to a single farmer or washing station.
Read the full Two Fish Coffee profile →
Fleurieu Peninsula
1 roasterMcLaren Vale, in the middle of wine country. Worth the drive south.
IN THE ROTATION
Dawn Patrol Coffee
McLaren Vale
"Dawn Patrol was established in 2014, in Kangarilla South Australia." They now roast on site at their headquarters in McLaren Vale, in the middle of wine country, which shapes how they do things.
The cellar door approach to coffee is a real thing here rather than a metaphor. You can visit, taste through the current offerings the way you'd taste wine, and work out what you actually like. On sourcing they're unusually direct: "We aim for 100% traceability at Dawn Patrol, which means that we know exactly where our beans come from, who grows them and how they were processed." The cafe at the roastery is run by Neighbours Crumpets, which is a good excuse to make the drive south.
Read the full Dawn Patrol Coffee profile →
More we rate
7 roastersNot in the subscription, and we'd still tell you to go and drink their coffee. These are the ones we buy ourselves when we're not drinking our own, from the city out to the Fleurieu.
ADELAIDE CBD + KENT TOWN
Pogo Coffee Roasters
Our take: a unique air roasting system, where the beans sit on a bed of hot air rather than tumbling against a drum, turning out full-bodied coffees and darker roasts that will put hairs on your chest.
EBENEZER PLACE, EAST END
Ember Specialty Coffee Lab
Our take: high end micro roaster with unique coffees, for anyone who likes to explore the edges of what specialty coffee can create. Small-batch single origin, with a cafe tucked off Rundle Street.
ADELAIDE
Auro Speciality Coffee
Our take: an award-winning family micro roastery with a large range of blends and funky single origin lots with real character. Medals at the 2025 Royal Adelaide Coffee Show and six at the Golden Bean back it up.
RICHMOND
Patio Coffee Roasters
Our take: well established Adelaide veterans with a large wholesale program, training rooms and a roastery door on Richmond Road. They can give you the full experience.
ADELAIDE HILLS
Coffee Bebop
Our take: an Adelaide Hills roaster who wants to keep coffee delicious and approachable for the everyday coffee drinker. Space-themed blends, roasted every Tuesday, shipped Australia-wide.
PORT ELLIOT
De Groot Coffee Co
Our take: a family roastery from the Fleurieu Peninsula, and a community-focused one at that. Trevor and Bernadette have been roasting for close to thirty years, and the cellar door cafe on Hill Street is open seven days.
GOOLWA
Slow Mover Coffee
Our take: a micro roaster, espresso bar and roastery behind a blue door in Goolwa, showcasing traceable coffees and approachable flavour profiles. Pair it with De Groot up the road for a morning on the south coast.
Where to buy Adelaide coffee online
Short version: every roaster on this page sells direct from their own website and ships Australia-wide, and nearly all of them roast to order rather than pulling a bag off a shelf. You do not need to live in Adelaide and you do not need to go through anyone to get their coffee.
So the real question is not where. It is how many. There are two sensible ways to go about it.
Buy direct from one roaster
Pick the one whose coffee you like and buy from them. More of the money stays with the roaster, you learn their house style properly, and most of them run their own subscription if you want it arriving without having to think about it. Dawn Patrol ship free anywhere in Australia and dispatch within 48 hours. Bobby's run their own subscription with no lock-in. Elementary start theirs at $20. Peninsula ship free over $50.
The catch is the obvious one. You will drink one roaster's coffee, roasted to one house style, and you will not find out what the others are doing.
The easiest way to sample several
If the point is discovery rather than loyalty, there are two Adelaide options and they work quite differently.
Loop House is a marketplace. You browse and pick the bags yourself from the roasters they list, currently four. Bags start at $17. Two things worth knowing before you compare prices: shipping is $12 with no free threshold, and because each roaster dispatches separately, an order spanning three roasters arrives as three parcels on three different days.
Allways is the curated version. One subscription, fifteen roasters, a different one in each delivery, ground to suit how you actually brew before it goes out. From $28 for 250g with shipping included, one parcel, pause or cancel whenever you like. You are not choosing the bags yourself, which is either the whole appeal or the drawback, depending on what you are after.
If you already know exactly which roaster and which coffee you want, buy direct or use the marketplace. If you would rather someone who knows the scene kept handing you something new, that is the job we do.
The point of all this
Every roaster on this list is doing something worth paying attention to. Altura has been at it for twenty-seven years. Elusive started in late 2024. What they share is that they're independent, they're based in South Australia, and they care about what ends up in the cup.
The Allways subscription rotates through the fifteen marked as in the rotation. Which one arrives in your next delivery depends on timing, availability, and what's tasting particularly good that fortnight. That rotation is the whole point: discovering roasters you might never have found otherwise, without having to research each one yourself.
Each of the fifteen also has a full profile on our site, linked from its card, if you want to sit with one of them properly. If you want to explore further, every roaster here has their own online store and most do wholesale. Their websites are worth bookmarking. If you'd rather skip the digging entirely, our coffee beans Adelaide page has the fresh, roast-dated version sorted. But if you'd rather let us do the rotating for you, that's what the subscription is for.
Common questions
Adelaide coffee roasters: FAQ
Which coffee roaster in Adelaide is the best?
There's no single answer, because roasters aim at different things. Monastery's co-founder was named Australia's top-ranked roaster by the Australian Specialty Coffee Association in 2018, and they're the safest pick for traceable single origins. Altura has been roasting since 1999 and suits anyone who wants a consistent blend for milk. Auro has the medals from the 2025 Golden Bean and Royal Adelaide shows. Dawn Patrol, Patio and De Groot are the ones to visit if you want to taste through a range before choosing. If you'd rather not choose at all, a rotating subscription hands you a different one each fortnight.
What's the difference between a cafe and a roastery?
A cafe brews and serves coffee. A roastery buys green (unroasted) beans and roasts them, usually selling bags to the public and wholesale to cafes. Plenty of the roasters on this page do both: Altura, Elementary, b3, Bobby's, Coffee in Common, Pogo, Ember and Slow Mover all roast and run their own cafes or bars, so you can drink a coffee and take beans home from the same building.
Where can I buy fresh coffee beans in Adelaide?
Straight from the roasters listed above, either at their roastery or cellar door, or online from their own sites. Most roast to order rather than stocking a shelf, so beans usually ship within a day or two of roasting. Our coffee beans Adelaide page collects the roast-dated options in one place.
Which Adelaide roasteries can I actually visit?
Altura in Findon has a cafe attached to the roastery with glass doors onto the roasting floor. Dawn Patrol in McLaren Vale runs a cellar door with a cafe by Neighbours Crumpets. Patio in Richmond has a cellar door and training lab. b3 trades seven days in Blackwood, Coffee in Common has a roastery cafe in Hindmarsh, Pogo has cafes in the CBD and Kent Town, and Ember is on Ebenezer Place in the East End. Further south, De Groot's cellar door in Port Elliot opens 7:30am to 2pm on weekdays and 8am to 2pm on weekends, and Slow Mover is open mornings in Goolwa. Check current hours with each roaster before you drive.
How fresh should coffee beans be?
Look for a roast date rather than a best-before date. Two Fish recommend brewing between 7 and 21 days after roasting, which is a reasonable rule for espresso generally; filter can be good a little earlier. Beans that only carry a best-before date, usually twelve months out, have almost certainly been sitting somewhere.
Does Adelaide coffee ship interstate?
Yes. Every roaster on this page ships Australia-wide from their own site, and several ship free over a threshold. A subscription is the simpler route if you want a different SA roaster arriving regularly without placing an order each time.
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