About Us
At Aircoffee we are passionate about specialty coffee, and we make an effort to to be local, with a presence at the street markets in Waipu, and around home, so drop by and sample a filter coffee, buy a bag of specialty coffee, or just have a chat.
We differentiate ourselves by roasting the best coffee, that is fully traceable back to the farm it came from. We buy single variety coffees that have characters that shine and carry the name of the grower and their location on the packet. If you really want to experience the coffee flavours, then the only way to do that is to taste single varieties and know the farm they came from, along with who grew, produced them and the way they were processed.
Starting with the best coffee, produced with love, we are focused on roasting quality coffees and we are proud to show exactly what these coffees we are roasting are, and where they come from, who produced them and how they are were processed.
Our roasting business and to supply organically grown coffee that is always packaged in compostable bags. All of the coffee’s we roast are from single farms and we always aim to source very high quality green beans. We rely on our coffee suppliers to help with this, and we are very pleased to have great suppliers, that visit the farms, and families growing and producing the coffee.
Our success roasting coffee is down to the success of our relationships in the community we are building with everybody – our green coffee suppliers, cafes, and those that love drink our roasted coffee.
The Roastery
Our roastery is in Waipu Gorge, on the way to the Piroa falls. Roasting is an intense process with lots of noise, air, fire and heat. So much energy is managed over a very short amount of time to roast beans to over 200 degrees celsius. Roasting is done using control systems and accurate monitoring to consistently match our roast profiles. We record everything as a reference, and are aways aiming for the perfect roast. We take roasting very seriously ….
The perfect roast for us is one that is sensitive to promote all the flavours, nuances and characteristiics intended by the producer. We aim to find the balance point in maliard development for a balance in flavour and sweetness which is a very fine line.
All our coffee is roasted by us, using our air roasters, which innovatively extend traditional roasting techniques, and consistently give us the most awesome coffee experience. We love our Sivetz air roaster, and we maintain close connections with the Sivetz Coffee Company in USA. The roast profiles we develop and use for our choice of beans are perfected by lots of quality control work… drinking coffee is a ritualistic pleasure our tasters [us] do every day.. We strive to meet consistently high standards in our roasts to provide fresh, roasted beans to satisfy, and feed the obsession. …