Buy coffee beans for the office
mycuppa has supplied premium-quality, freshly roasted coffee beans to the Australian corporate and business office environment since 2007.
We supply coffee that is perfectly suitable for automatic coffee machines.
In particular, our blends with the ideal medium roast produce a rich, smooth, creamy and sweet flavour.
For the last 16 years, we have been roasting coffee for many dedicated 3rd party office coffee providers.
Are you looking to impress clients or keep employees energized and focused?
Our expertly crafted coffee blends meet the unique needs of the corporate coffee market.
Trust us to provide the perfect cup every time.
We value feedback and prioritize building strong customer relationships to ensure their satisfaction.
There are a few things to consider when buying office coffee.
The first is to understand the brew method that you and your staff prefer.
We can supply filter coffee beans, compatible espresso coffee capsules, or even the best-tasting premium quality instant coffee.
As key suppliers to large Universities and Corporations, we have developed our coffee products to ensure they work perfectly on Automatic espresso coffee machines installed in office environments without causing oily build-up that can damage sensitive equipment.
Why is office coffee different to cafe coffee?
There is a subtle but important difference between the requirements or demands of office coffee and cafe coffee.
Cafe suppliers prepare their coffees within a very narrow range of roast depth.
Some are light, others medium light, medium, medium dark or dark.
It's a broad spectrum of what is possible in coffee.
But those significant variations between the light and dark roasting styles can mean a world of difference to the office coffee machine.
Office coffee machines are normally super-automatic; e.g., they have small built-in grinders for dosing, brewing, and frothing to produce a finished coffee beverage.
The grinders and brew systems inside these automatic machines are small and less robust compared to the bigger external standalone systems.
Light-roasted coffees need to be better suited to automatic coffee machines. Automatic coffee machines can only extract up to about 85% of the efficiency of standalone espresso machines.
Light-roasted coffees will be harder and denser, causing more wear and tear on the built-in grinder.
Lighter-roasted coffees also need more flavour, body and intensity than medium-roasted coffee.
A light-roasted coffee may leave you with a weaker-tasting coffee from the automatic machine, disappointing staff and visitors.
At the other end of the scale are darker roasts.
These dark roasts, in particular, should be avoided because of the consequences of the accumulation of oils from the dark roasted coffees gumming up the grinder and brew components inside of the automatic coffee machine.
Dark-roasted coffees are the domain of supermarkets and cheap coffee bean suppliers.
They roast the coffee darker into a homogenized product that is dark, oily, and slightly bitter taints.
Dark roasting does not increase or improve the level of flavour or taste. It's the opposite.
The only thing dark roasting does is introduce "bite".
Using dark-roasted, low-grade coffee beans on your office automatic machine will generally produce a bland coffee that needs more sweetness and complexity.
Sure, it has what might resemble coffee attributes, but that bite is a nasty taint called bitterness masked in a rancid caramel/malt extraction.
Why is dark-roasted coffee bad for office coffee machines
Oils.
In this case, we discuss the oils outside the roasted coffee beans.
Oils should remain trapped inside the bean and will gradually migrate to the surface over time.
The longer the time, the more likely oily deposits will form on the outer surface.
This oil will go rancid upon contact with oxygen and taste bitter.
It's the same outcome that occurs to any food oils or fats when exposed to oxygen - unappetizing.
If you open a pack of coffee beans and they are oily - my advice is to tip the beans into the bin.
A spot of oil here and there is OK, but an oily sheen could be better (except for Decaf, which is chemically different and presents with a sheen even when freshly roasted).
Using stale, oily beans that have been dark roasted on your office automatic espresso coffee machine only invites problems and increases the risk of an expensive breakdown.
The excessive oil from over-roasting and stale coffee will stick to the small burrs on the built-in grinder of the office automatic espresso machine and eventually ends up clogging the grinder (gumming).
It also causes taints from rancid ground coffee to stick to the oils when exposed to oxygen.
What you end up with is a bitter taint of varying intensity that spoils the quality of every cup of coffee made on the office automatic espresso machine - until the coffee machine has been professionally cleaned (which costs hundreds of dollars).
Most Office Suppliers (that is, the providers of stationary and other services) that also offer coffee tend to supply only cheap, low-grade and stale coffee beans at over-inflated prices.
What I am referring to here are the All-In-One office suppliers who think roasted coffee beans are the same as notepads, pens and staples - they have no idea about coffee being a fresh food and no processes in place to manage the age of coffee beans that will have been sitting on their warehouse shelves for some time.
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Office supply companies do not roast coffee beans and rely upon cheap-priced coffee purchased in volume at contract roasting companies.
Don't buy light or dark roasted coffees for your office machine, and also don't buy stale, low-grade coffees from an office supplier - they need to understand more about fresh roasted coffee.
