Sew Espresso Roasters – Pushing the boundaries in specialty espresso – Thieves Espresso

Welcome to September! This month Thieves is teaming up with business trailblazers, Sew Espresso. Sew holds a particular place in our hearts. They’re a unprecedented group of specialty espresso consultants who’re all the time experimenting and creating thrilling new espresso merchandise for his or her keen followers.

Sew Espresso was based on the idea that espresso is sort of a tapestry — a wealthy weaving of origins and flavours to create a harmonious and scrumptious cup. The journey started nearly a decade in the past, with Nawar Adra, the proprietor and founder, who began his profession as a barista within the famend Sydney espresso scene. It was there that Nawar’s ardour for roasting emerged. Pushed by his progressive imaginative and prescient, he opened the roastery in 2015 and Sew Espresso rapidly grew to become identified within the business as a espresso roaster that’s daring, enjoyable and high quality centered.

In the present day, Sew Espresso is an invigorating espresso enterprise that spans throughout wholesale, ecommerce, retail and manufacturing with one widespread thread: pushing boundaries. Get pleasure from sipping on Sew Espresso each morning this month! They’re showcasing two further particular coffees – we are able to’t wait so that you can attempt them.

The  Interview

We caught up with Sew Espresso Founder and Head Roaster, Nawa Adra, to speak about his journey to launching his espresso enterprise, the place he thinks the business is headed and what’s in retailer for the remainder of the 12 months.

 
How did Sew Espresso get began?
Our proprietor and founder Nawar Adra found early on in his profession that merging of espresso origins created a cup with distinct complexity, construction, and stability. The idea gave delivery to Sew Espresso. We first opened the doorways to our roastery in 2015 and haven’t appeared again. Actually, we proceed to develop upwards and outwards!

We opened our flagship cafe in 2021 (Sew Espresso Broadway) and our second cafe (Sew Espresso QVB) extra just lately in 2023. These new ventures have redefined our enterprise mannequin, with Sew Espresso rising from being a wholesale roastery again in 2015 to taking over actual property within the retail, hospitality, and e-commerce espresso sectors. Diversifying on this means has bolstered our workforce and gifted us longevity in an in any other case aggressive business.

On the flip facet, COVID-19 was understandably one main problem that stands out in reminiscence, because it was for the entire business, however the silver lining was the way it knowledgeable our views for the higher. It allowed us to realize a greater understanding of what our prospects wished, and we shifted our choices to swimsuit their want for a sustainable and diversity-focused espresso firm. Our packaging is purposefully vibrant and practical (i.e. following a scale back, reuse, recycle mannequin) in order that we’re including vibrancy to every buyer’s espresso ritual and refreshing the method to specialty espresso.

How do you supply your espresso beans and what do you search for within the beans you employ?
We work with a number of trusted inexperienced bean suppliers to ethically supply espresso from throughout the globe, specializing in traceability to make sure that our shoppers have transparency round their espresso’s total journey from bean to cup. All Sew Espresso is imported inexperienced and roasted in Sydney at our Alexandria roastery.

Particularly, our Storytime mix combines pure beans from Brazil and washed beans from Papua New Guinea to create a wealthy and chocolatey cup. Our second espresso roast is Colombia, Popayán Decaf, which is processed within the Popayán area earlier than being transported to Caldas the place it undergoes decaffeination. Our first filter possibility is Papua New Guinea, Okapa Blue: washed beans from the Jap Highlands. Our second filter possibility is Bolivia, Finca La Asunta: a washed geisha from Bolivia.

By way of what we search for, we at the start choose espresso primarily based on seasonality and high quality. High quality is judged primarily based on the cup’s uniformity and bodily evaluation, and we use a particular rating system. We’ll do these cuppings 2-3 months earlier than the espresso is avail- in a position at shore. We additionally are likely to gravitate in the direction of candy and clear pure and washed coffees. However we additionally don’t maintain again in terms of attempting out new progressive espresso processing strategies!

Inform us about what’s in retailer for the remainder of the 12 months?
We’re enthusiastic about our Specialty Espresso Focus, which we’ve developed to be double the energy of a typical Sew Espresso espresso. The bottle is 100% reusable/recyclable, and we’ve additionally crafted a method to swimsuit an entire host of espresso recipes. Yow will discover them on our web site; for many espresso drinks, one capful (approx. 12ml) is all you want. With this product, we need to change individuals’s notion that the one technique to get pleasure from specialty espresso is to grind it recent. Due to new know-how and recipe growth, now you can get pleasure from specialty espresso in a concentrated kind.

One other thrilling adaptation we hope to launch quickly (ETA October 2024) is the Lollipop Field 2.0. The primary iteration of drip espresso luggage bursting with fruit maceration espresso from Colombia was a success when first launched final 12 months and we are able to’t wait to deliver it again in spiffy new packaging quickly. Hopefully simply in time for Halloween!

Within the cafes, we’re growing lots of signature drinks, the most recent one being a scorching White Rabbit filter espresso for winter! It’s Higgs Subject filter espresso on the base, hazelnut syrup, creamy foam, and shavings of nutmeg and lemon zest on prime. As for spring, you’ll have to remain tuned to our Instagram.