About Us

Global Coffee is a boutique roastery supplying only top quality arabica coffee beans that are freshly roasted to order.  We supply individuals and businesses with the option of a single origin coffee or one of our unique blends. Your coffee is custom roasted so we can personalise your coffee - which means you decide how you want it roasted, light-med or dark, whole bean or ground. We are a member of the NZ Coffee Roasting Association and we are also Fair Trade registered.  We want to make the experience more enjoyable and satisfying for everyone. 

We also sell a range of coffee machines manual and automatic and top quality grinders.

History of Coffee

Coffee was originally found in the Kaffa mountains of Abyssina(now Ethiopia), legend has it a young goatherd noticed the stimulating effect on his goats after they were eating these red berries, after telling his leaders in the village about this, they gathered the berries and made an infusion and this was originally used by the religious orders to keep them awake during prayers and was called qawha - a poetic word for wine.  It was also used in rituals and as a medicine.  The coffee plant spread to Yeman and the first coffee houses were set up in Cairo and Mecca and eventually spread to the rest of the world along with the coffee plants to Java and later to central and South America.

Coffee tastes differ all around the world.  In Northern Europe they prefer a light, mild acidic flavour.  Southern Europe like their coffee a full dark roast, strong flavoured, black and bitter and the French somewhere in between.  Served as a thick syrup or a lighter drink with milk it has become for many people a daily ritual.