1645 Coffee, Adelaide
1645 Coffee
Named for 1645, the year the first coffee house in Europe opened in Venice. Not the longitude of Adelaide, which is a thing we have seen written down more than once, including by us.
Roaster Profile1645 retail bags on a bench
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The roastery
A number that is not a coordinate
Most roasters are named after a suburb, a surname or a bird. 1645 went with a date, and for a while we told people it was a map reference. It is not. Adelaide sits at roughly 138.6 degrees east, which is nowhere near 1645, and we would like that correction on the record.
The year is the whole point. 1645 is when the first coffee house in Europe opened, in Venice, at the end of a trade route running up through North Africa. Not just a number, as they say themselves.
Adelaide is about 138.6 degrees east. Nowhere near 1645.
We have decided that a roaster naming itself after the year Europe worked out what coffee was for is a better story than a coordinate anyway. It just took us an embarrassing amount of time to get there.
1645 beans in the hopper, roastery wide shot
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Approach
How they roast
This is the part of a roaster profile where the internet usually invents a machine, a founder and a couple of awards. We will leave that to the internet. 1645 are quiet about the roasting side of things, and it is theirs to talk about, not ours.
What we can tell you is our end of it. Whatever 1645 sends us is roasted to order, ground to how you actually brew, and shipped straight out. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for a promotion.
1645 Coffee, Adelaide
An Adelaide roaster with a date for a name and not a lot to say about itself. The name points at Venice in 1645, and the rest of the argument turns up in the bag.
Questions people actually ask
Where is 1645 Coffee roasted?
In Adelaide, South Australia. They are one of the independent South Australian roasters in the Allways rotation.
What does the name 1645 mean?
It marks 1645, the year the first coffee house in Europe opened in Venice, at the end of a trade route running up through North Africa. It is not the longitude of Adelaide, despite what you may have read, including here.
Can I get 1645 Coffee delivered?
Yes. It comes through the Allways subscription, roasted to order and shipped free Australia-wide. Tell us how you brew and we grind it to suit, or leave it whole bean.
Why order 1645 Coffee through Allways instead of going direct?
If 1645 is the only coffee you ever want to drink, go direct. Buy it from them, keep them in business, we would rather you did that than settle for something you like less. Allways is for the other case. One subscription, a different independent South Australian roaster in each delivery, ground to how you brew and roasted to order. 1645 is one of fifteen, and next month is somebody else's turn.
Fifteen Adelaide roasters, one subscription
One subscription. Fifteen independent Adelaide roasters. Roasted to order, free shipping Australia-wide, pause or cancel whenever you like.
