Two Fish Coffee, Adelaide
Two Fish Coffee
Roasted to order in small batches every week, sourced direct from producers, with most coffees traceable back to a single farmer. Adelaide based, nearly eight years in.
Roaster ProfileTwo Fish retail bags on a kitchen bench, labels readable
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The roastery
Small, weekly, and very specific about where the coffee came from
Nearly eight years in Adelaide, roasting, brewing and enjoying it. Two Fish would always rather talk about the coffee than about themselves, so everything worth knowing about them sits in how it is bought and how it is roasted.
They roast to order in small batches each week, they buy direct from producers, and they make a traceability claim most roasters would not put in writing.
"The vast majority of our coffees can be traced back to a single farmer/washing station."
Single farmer, not single country. Not even single region. That is a harder promise to keep than it sounds, because it rules out the convenient blended regional lots that make a supply chain easy to run. It is also the sort of claim you only make if you can back it up, since the producers named on the bag can read it too.
Small batch roast in progress or freshly filled bags being weighed
1600 x 900
Approach
How they roast
Roasted to order, weekly, in small batches. That is the whole operating model and it drives everything else. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for demand, so the roast profile can follow the coffee rather than the stock levels, and the seasonal blend can change when the season does instead of when the pallet runs out.
They recommend drinking their coffee between 7 and 21 days after roast. That is a genuinely useful number rather than a marketing one. Before about a week, freshly roasted coffee is still degassing and espresso will taste sharp and unsettled. After three weeks it starts to flatten out. Your bag arrives inside that window, which is the entire point of buying from a roaster who only roasts what has been ordered.
23° South
Brazil, Umburana, Minas Gerais, pulped natural · Rwanda, seasonal lot, washed
23 South bag
1200 x 900
A pulped natural Red Catuai out of Minas Gerais blended with a washed Red Bourbon from Rwanda. Sweet, rich and heavy bodied, and built to hold its shape under milk rather than disappear into it. This is the everyday one. It is a seasonal blend, so the components move as the seasons do.
Colombia Lomaverde
Finca Lomaverde, Santa Barbara, Antioquia, Colombia · Chiroso · Washed · 1,950 masl
Colombia Lomaverde bag
1200 x 900
Grown by the Echavarria family at 1,950 metres in the hills of Antioquia. Chiroso is a rare variety, now understood to be an Ethiopian landrace, and at that elevation it turns into something properly complex. Floral and juicy, and a long way from a flat supermarket espresso. Worth pulling a little slower and paying attention to.
Colombia La Esperanza
Palestina, La Plata, Huila, Colombia · Caturra · Washed · 1,815 masl
Colombia La Esperanza bag
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A four hectare farm run by Guillermo Mompotes and his family for more than twenty five years, with almost nothing contracted out. That is usually a good sign for what ends up in the cup. A filter drinker's coffee, meant to be brewed slowly and sat with.
Colombia San Antonio Decaf
Inza, Cauca, Colombia · Caturra and Colombia · Washed, ethyl acetate · 1,800 to 2,100 masl
Colombia San Antonio Decaf bag
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A regional lot from twenty five smallholders around San Antonio, decaffeinated with ethyl acetate derived from sugarcane. One of the cleaner decaffeination methods going, and it shows. Proper coffee that has had the caffeine taken out, rather than the other way around.
Those four were the Two Fish coffees in Release 117. The rotation moves, so what is in your box next time may be different. That is the arrangement.
Two Fish Coffee
Adelaide roaster, nearly eight years in, roasting to order in small weekly batches. Producer direct sourcing with most coffees traceable to a single farmer or washing station. Short on self promotion, long on paperwork about where the beans came from.
Questions people actually ask
Where is Two Fish Coffee roasted?
In Adelaide, to order, in small batches, every week.
How fresh is Two Fish coffee when it arrives?
They roast to order in small batches each week and recommend drinking it between 7 and 21 days after roast. Your bag lands inside that window. Before a week or so the coffee is still degassing and espresso tastes unsettled. After three weeks it flattens out.
Where does Two Fish source its coffee?
Direct from producers, and the vast majority of their coffees trace back to a single farmer or washing station. That is a stricter standard than single origin and a much stricter one than single country.
Can I get Two Fish coffee delivered?
Yes. Two Fish comes through the Allways rotation, roasted to order and shipped free anywhere in Australia. Pick the subscription that matches how you brew and we grind it for that, or send it whole bean.
Why order Two Fish coffee through Allways instead of going direct?
If Two Fish is the only coffee you ever want to drink, go direct and buy it from them. That is the honest answer. Allways is for the opposite kind of drinker: one subscription, a different independent South Australian roaster in each delivery, ground to how you brew, so you meet roasters you would never have got around to trying. Two Fish is one of fifteen.
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