Bean banter

The Democratic Republic of the Congo – DRC – is a pretty controversial spot, to say the least. The country has a long, storied and war-torn history featuring exploitation, gold, oil, diamonds, ethnic cleansing and child soldiers. Big coffee companies have rightfully...

We’re pretty amped to be using All Good Oat Milk at all three of our Cafés, and we’re also the Christchurch distributor, providing quality oat milk to cafés restaurants and shops. Whether cow’s milk isn’t friendly to your stomach, your diet calls for a dairy...

Hamish is the founder and vision-haver that brought us all together and built Switch up to what it is today. The journey that brought him into the coffee roasting business is a pretty important part of our company story and culture.

On November 20 we’ll be hosting an exclusive screening of Coffee Heroes, a film about Polish barista Agnieszka Rojewska (Aga) and her attempt to become the first female champion at the World Barista Championships.

We’ve got an extensive barista training programme to help you get the most out of our coffees. Confident and skilled baristas are the heart of every great café and make for consistently excellent coffee. Chiara, our in-house NZSCA-accredited barista trainer says...

Taste six unique coffees from around the world, learn, and guess the origins. We’re amped to be holding a New Zealand Specialty Coffee Association Tasters Series event at Black Betty Café. You don’t need to be a coffee expert – anyone interested in consuming something different and contrasting is invited to attend.

Like fried chicken, coffee is best when it comes by the bucket. At Switch we’re pretty concerned about all the waste that happens in our industry. Between coffee bags, boxes, cups, lids and industrial waste there tends to be a lot of junk that ends up in a landfill....

Last week was International Coffee Day, and that got us thinking about our global supply chain, and why it’s so important to us to work with the good guys of international coffee.

You can’t grow coffee beans without caffeine, so to get decaf the caffeine has to be removed. Just like any coffee, there’s good decaf and bad decaf. There’s no excuse for the latter, so here’s Switch Espresso’s guide to finding a great brew.