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[RELEASE 115] Vice Coffee Roasters - Coffee by Women made for everyone
Female-owned, Adelaide Hills. Four coffees. Every subscription type covered — and every one of them worth knowing.
Roaster Feature
Vice Coffee Roasters is based in the Adelaide Hills. Female-owned and run by Kat, the whole business is built around one idea: put the people who grow the coffee at the front of the story, not the back.
Every coffee in their range has a name, a producer, a place and a reason it was chosen. They prioritise female producers wherever possible, and 10% of online profits go directly to charity — right now that’s the UNICEF Children of Gaza appeal.
This round, four of their coffees land in the Allways rotation. One for the blend drinkers, one for the single origin espresso drinkers, one for the filter brewers, and one for the decaf crowd. A rare release that covers the whole board.
Basic Babe
Brazil (Santa Luzia Farm, Cerrado Mineiro) + Colombia (El Naranjo Farm, Risaralda) · Natural + Washed · Medium roast
The name is a bit of a joke. The coffee is not basic. Luciana Melo’s Brazilian natural brings the chocolate and depth, Noralba Benitez’s washed Colombian adds the balance and roundness. Medium acid means it cuts through milk without getting sour or thin.
This is the one for the people who want their flat white to taste like it came from a good cafe, not a packet from the supermarket. Reliable, consistent, and honestly just good.
The Albir Sisters
Finca El Encino, Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua · Natural · Parainema · 1350 MASL · Light roast
Martha and Ana Albir are third-generation producers at Finca El Encino in Nueva Segovia. Their mill doesn’t just serve their own farm — it supports 11 other local producers too. The operation runs an ecoforestry model and invests in local employment and education.
The coffee reflects the care that goes into it. White peach and blackberry up front, hazelnut running through the finish. Light roast, natural process — this one works on espresso or filter depending on what you’ve got at home.
Finca La Esmeralda
Las Lajas Washing Station, Sabanilla de Alajuela, Central Valley, Costa Rica · Alma Negra Natural · Catuai + Caturra · 1400–1600 MASL
Francisca and Oscar Chacon have been at the Las Lajas micromill since 2005. In 2008, a mid-harvest earthquake cut their power and water — which would have ended most operations. Instead they improvised a natural drying process inspired by African production methods, and ended up with something worth talking about.
The Alma Negra process means the coffee dries skin-on with extended fermentation, cherry ripeness measured by brix at harvest. The result sits somewhere between a wine and a coffee — blackcurrant, grenache, tropical fruit. It’s a filter drinker’s coffee. Something to pay a bit of attention to.
Colombia Decaf
Apia, Risaralda, Colombia · Ethyl Acetate Washed (EA from fermented sugarcane) · 1400–2100 MASL · Medium roast
Most decaf coffee has one thing going for it: it’s warm and brown. This one actually tastes like something. The ethyl acetate process uses EA derived from fermented sugarcane — it’s one of the cleaner decaffeination methods around, and it shows in the cup.
Caramel, milk chocolate, brown sugar. Medium roast, works well as espresso. For the Decaf Coffee Subscription crowd who’ve been waiting for something that actually holds up — this is it.
How Vice Coffee Roasters works
Vice is a wholesale-first operation. Most of their coffee goes to cafes. The retail range is well-developed, but it comes from a roastery that’s primarily talking to industry buyers — which tends to mean higher standards, tighter sourcing, and less cutting corners on what gets through.
The sourcing philosophy is consistent across the range: female producers are prioritised wherever they can make it work, every product tells the producer story, and the charity contribution isn’t a footnote — it’s built into the pricing model. Ten percent of online profits goes out the door before they think about margin.
That kind of consistency is what makes a roaster worth featuring more than once. It’s not a gimmick and it’s not just good branding. It’s a set of choices that show up in the cup and in the business. Good coffee from people who’ve thought about where it comes from.
Female-owned boutique roastery in the Adelaide Hills. Built around producer storytelling, female-led sourcing, and community contribution. Wholesale at the core, retail range that holds its own.
Vice Coffee Roasters is in the Allways rotation.
Fresh from the Adelaide Hills, across all subscription types. Pick the one that matches how you brew.
