For over thirty-five years, we’ve roasted coffee for exceptional flavour. From our very first roaster in Auckland — a second-hand Petroncini — to today, it has guided all of our decision-making.
But we’ve never stopped asking: “How can we do this better?”
Today, we’re incredibly excited to introduce our new Melbourne Roastery in Reservoir — a purpose-built home to showcase our signature flavour.
This new space is designed specifically for Allpress. It brings every roast, every order, and every detail together under one roof — designed around precision, consistency, and the pursuit of our signature flavour.
Built for flavour
We’ve always taken complete ownership of our coffee roasting — never outsourced, always Allpress.
Our new Roastery allows us to meet growing demand, refine our craft, and future-proof Allpress — all while staying true to our unwavering commitment to flavour, consistency, and innovation.
For our hospitality partners, this means even greater consistency, more precise flavour control, and the confidence that your supply is future-ready. For home brewers, it means every cup tastes just like your favourite café’s.
Inside the new Roastery
Next-gen roasting facilities
Purpose-built spaces designed for flavour development, precision roasting, and absolute consistency. These will be centres of excellence where we can push the boundaries of hot air roasting.
Innovation-led Quality Control (QC) labs
State-of-the-art sensory labs, enabling rigorous cupping, green bean evaluation, and continuous refinement of our profiles. More consistency, tighter quality assurance, and new opportunities to innovate.
Smarter operations
Streamlined packaging, logistics, and standardised systems across regions — so we spend less time on process and more time on what matters: exceptional coffee.
Hot air roasting: The foundation of our flavour
From the beginning, flavour has been our legacy. When Allpress started in 1989, we chose a different path — one that would define our taste for decades.
In 2003, we began hot air roasting, using convective heat to suspend beans in a fluidised stream of clean hot air to produce our signature sweeter, cleaner flavour.
To take hot air roasting to the next level, we’re partnering with IMF Roasting, Italian specialists in state-of-the-art hot air technology. Their systems are engineered to deliver on our core values:
Flavour consistency at scale – Precision temperature control locks in the nuances that define our profile.
Sustainability & efficiency – A single-burner system recirculates hot, clean air, cutting emissions and energy use vs. our current two-burner roasters
Cleaner roasting – Continuous chaff extraction prevents unwanted burning and safeguards flavour.
Built-in quality assurance – Integrated destoners ensure only the highest-quality beans make it in the bag.
Our Global Head Roaster, Cam MacFadyen, recently tested our profiles on an IMF 60kg roaster in Sydney:
“These machines are super impressive. We were hitting our profile straight out of the box — it’s going to be exciting to see what we can do with flavour once we get them dialled in.”
Same team, same people, new digs
After 20+ years roasting on Epsom Rd in Zetland, and 12 years roasting in Collingwood, we’ll be decommissioning both roasters and moving all roasting to Reservoir.
Both sites will continue as the support hubs of our teams though! Home to all things technical, training, customer service and support, they’re still the spiritual homes of everything Allpress.
A pinch-ourselves moment
This is a monumental step in the Allpress journey — one that ensures we can continue to deliver the exceptional coffee experiences our partners expect, while setting ourselves up for future growth.
Our new facilities ensure every Allpress partner can serve coffee with absolute confidence — knowing that behind every cup is a roasting system built for precision, consistency, and flavour.
Because in hospitality, every detail matters. We’re making sure the coffee in your cup tells the story of passion, precision, and commitment to quality that Allpress has stood for since day one.
