PLCoffee: really FRESH coffee !
Hello sweet, velvety coffee with hints of spice and cocoa.
PLCoffee is lightly roasted to bring out all the flavours.
We roast on demand !
A tiny roastery on the North-East coast of Tasmania.
Delivered to your door within 3-5 days from roasting.
REALLY fresh coffee makes all the difference !
We look forward to hearing from you.
You can contact us via PM on our Facebook page at PLCoffee Company on https://www.facebook.com/PLCoffee-Company-299656391446/
THE HISTORY of PLCoffee.
and how we got the name...
G'day!
My name is Robert Booth and we, lovely wife (and Chief-taster) Lis and I, run PLCoffee.
We got into coffee-roasting quite by accident....while travelling through Australia we found that the more remote shops either did not stock coffee beans, or the beans that they did have were so stale the coffee-oils glued them together.
Really fresh roasted coffee is a commodity you can only get from truly passionate coffee roasters and coffee suppliers, who are proud of the quality of their product and are willing to go the extra mile in getting their goods to you as soon as possible.
Or, you can roast it yourself!!
And that is how it started: (motor)home-roasting our own coffee, with beans we managed to get... supply on the road is not always guaranteed, so it became a bit of "Pot Luck" which varieties of beans we managed to get hold of .... and soon we were roasting fresh "Pot Luck" coffee for friends and family .
Some time ago we decided to "put down roots", so we parked the motorhome and started building our house.
We realised there was a market for fresh roasted coffee and in 2009 we installed a small commercial coffee roaster, set up the business and rebranded "Pot Luck " into PLC. Since then PLCoffee has been supplying freshly roasted gourmet coffee beans to an ever-expanding group of family, friends, friends of friends, shops, caterers ... and you!
Our journey through the wonderful world of REALLY FRESH coffee has opened our eyes, our taste-buds and our hearts even further to this little miracle bean and its travels from origin, variety, grower, picker, wholesaler, importer, roaster, coffee-lover; across continents and oceans, right to your cup.
May all of our journeys continue, both on the road as well as in the cup!
All the best,
Robert
Our coffee beans.
Whether you like it brewed, percolator, syphon, "drip" or espresso; with or without milk; hot, as ice-coffee or over ice-cream: once you taste REALLY FRESH coffee you'll be hooked, want to know more, discover more, taste more.
PLCoffee is a fellow traveler on this Journey; we look for the nicest coffee beans, from the most interesting coffee-growing regions.
Not all of the coffee beans we buy have a formal RFA etc. classification; but before we buy, we try to make sure they have been produced under the most ethical circumstances.
Our suppliers know we do not support the cut-throat coffee industry of old; they themselves endeavour to make sure the coffee beans they order in are as responsibly grown as possible.
Sometimes we simply have to trust our suppliers... and they have not yet let us down!
Once we get the coffee beans in stock the fun starts... with Lis as chief taster we roast and taste and roast and blend until we have a flavour which is rounded, with caramel, spice, fruit-cake and cocoa, just the type of coffee which will suit gentle drip-olators and plungers, as well cut smoothly through milk in espresso based drinks.... that will be that week's "Journey-blend".
After we have roasted the coffee beans and sold (and enjoyed!!) that particular batch of fresh coffee it starts all over again.
A fresh supply of coffee beans, from different regions, roasted along different profiles with the balance of the caramel, spice etc. just a little different... making for a whole new taste-experience.
We do not keep large stocks of Journey-beans, therefore every week the balance of varieties available changes.
This means that if you order from PLCoffee, you never know what will be in your Journey-blend.
Actually, we don't know either what makes up your Journey-blend until the beans land on our doorstep and the first sample roasts have been tasted!
So, Journey-blends are truly Pot Luck!
But, what about the Cafe-blend?
Well, our friends found one particular coffee so more-ish that we decided to go against the grain of true Pot Luck blending and make it a regular stock item: the "Cafe-blend".
Made up of smooth South American and rich African coffee beans, with a hint of SE Asia to balance it out: deep flavoured, roundly balanced, complex but gentle: the ideal every-day coffee!
And "Old Amsterdam", our newest blend, is a loving salute from Lis to her European roots, a gentle coffee which works so well when served at the relaxed long breakfast, brunch or lunch as French Press, pour-over or as a luscious Cafe-Latte.
We invite you to tag along for part (or all) of PLCoffee's Coffee Journey.
Taste some of the flavours Lis and I love, experience some of the wonderful coffee beans from little-known districts, have a go at the various ways these coffees can be prepared.
After all, it is the journeys we undertake which make our life interesting!
All the best,
Robert
Being a teeny tiny roastery, we keep our blend range small.
PLC produces 4 roasted coffeess: Cafe- blend, Old Amsterdam-blend, Continental-blend and Journey - blend.
Cafe was our first creation with beans from South America, Africa and Papua New Guinea, and it has stood the test of time: 75% of our customers buy the Cafe- blend and enjoy the sweetness, dark fruit-cake notes with a hint of cocoa and caramel.
Old Amsterdam is our newest blend: a salute to the history of coffee, from its origins in Ethiopia, Yemen and the city of Mocha to the (illegally obtained! ) coffee-bushes grown in the Botanical Gardens of Amsterdam which produced the first 'modern' coffee-beans, Coffee Arabica.
This blend of the old (Ethiopia) and the new (PNG) brings together a wonderful palate of dark berry fruit, balanced out by gentle cocoa and nuts.
A long finish, excellent as a long black and superbly cutting through milk... a coffee for lingering !
The Continental-bend is a much darker roast... we take the roast through to almost a Full City roast, which means the coffee is rich, dark, strong and decidedly European.
Our Journey-blend is always a one-off... we only buy 1kg quantities of the specialty beans that we use for the Journey blend, and, when they are gone, they are gone.
Due to the cost of the more exclusive beans, the Journey -blend is more expensive than our regular blends, but, believe me: it is worth it!
Our Range
We look forward to hearing from you !
You can contact us via:
email: potluckcoffeeco@gmail.com
PM: on our Facebook page at PLCoffee @
https://www.facebook.com/PLCoffee-Company-299656391446/
Or, fill out the form inn the "Contact" tab at the top of our web page and click "Submit." We will get back to you as soon as possible !