Our Story
Coffee mavericks since day one
In the 90s, we carved our own path as the most adventurous coffee roasters Australia has known.
Exploring new horizons, we paved the way for specialty coffee before the term “specialty coffee” existed in Australia.
While our hospitality landscape continues to be challenged, our accomplished and experienced team offer a fresh adaptive approach to your cafe. We’re always unearthing exciting new flavours for you to experience at home, in your office or at a Danes café.
The most awarded coffee roasters in Australia
Fast forward to today, and we’re Australia’s most awarded coffee roaster. In 2018 and 2019 we won Champion Australian Roaster at the Australian International Coffee Awards (AICA). In 2020, we took home a record 20 medals across all brewing categories at AICA. After a break in competition in 2021, 2022 brought further gold medal success.
It totals a record haul of 85 gold, silver and bronze medals in recent years, winning Gold in all categories including Milk Blends, Filter, Espresso Blends, Single Origin and Cold Brew.
In 2024, we celebrate 30 years of roasting and retailing specialty coffee and more than 25 years of teaching baristas and coffee lovers worldwide how to brew flavour-filled coffee.
Success comes through sustainability. That means solar panels to completely power our roastery, recycling chaff and being part of the Simply Cups program. It means carbon offsetting our deliveries where we can, zero plastic packaging and plant-based takeaway cups. Learn more about Danes’ sustainability here.
Full flavour is our focus
Passion for flavour is what drives and challenges us. It guides every element of our roastery, retail, training and café supply.
Our consistency in roasting, flavour profiling and sourcing only specialty coffee beans allows us to create our award winning coffees.
It’s the process and passion that happen before it’s in your hands that make every drop of Danes delicious.
From the farmers who sustainably grow our beans with handpicked care and ancestral knowledge. To our master roasters who bring only the most extraordinary flavours to the cupping table.
To your kitchen bench where your tastebuds demand the best from your daily brew.
Good coffee, made simple
Coffee should be easy to make and a delight to drink.
We want to show you how coffee flavour can vary through the expression of sweetness, aroma, body and finish – to help you define your favourite flavour.
You can use the flavour pentagon on each bag of our coffee to quickly get an idea of how each roast will taste. And our Chocolates and Caramels, Nuts and Spices, and Fruits and Berries percentage pentagons can quickly identify each coffee’s flavour tribe.
You’ll also find our brew guide with ratios, temperature and key info so you can nail an amazing coffee at home or the office without hassle.
Join us
Join us at our Sydney CBD store, Infusion on Clarence, or the Danes Drive-In at our Brookvale Roastery to explore our full range of coffees brewed how you like it. With champion single origins, milk blends, batch and cold brew we have an amazing array of coffees and roast profiles for every taste and palette.
And while you are at Brookvale pop upstairs to our showroom and coffee bean gallery and chat with our team to find the coffee just right for you, or for the full coffee experience where we open our roastery and show you how we roast our award-winning coffees. You can book online for all our upcoming events and courses.
We hope to see you soon at our roastery or one of our café partners for a chat over a cup of some of Australia’s best coffees.
