Why Venn Is April's Roaster of the Month (and what to actually try)
Perth home espresso has a problem that isn't the machine, the grinder, or the technique. It's the beans. Specifically: most people have no idea where to start, the specialty coffee world does its best to keep it that way, and the gap between café quality and what lands on your kitchen bench stays stubbornly wide.
Venn Coffee is a direct answer to that gap.
They're a the latest of our Perth based partner roasters — small, focused and their range is built around a simple principle: good coffee should be easy to enjoy, not hard to justify. No tasting notes that read like a botanist's field journal. No blends named after abstract concepts. Just five coffees that cover what Perth home brewers actually need, each with a clear reason to exist.
Here are the five coffees, and who each one is for:
The Two Blends
Berwick St Blend— milk chocolate, hazelnut, clementine — is the one to start with. It's Venn's most popular coffee and it earns that by being genuinely consistent: smooth in milk, forgiving to extract, and good enough that you'll stop noticing you're drinking it (which is a compliment). If you're buying specialty coffee beans for home espresso for the first time, start here.
If you prefer a richer, fuller flat white (or you drink your espresso straight) then Petra St Blend is a better fit. Chocolate ripple, roasted pecan, honeycomb. Richer, but still smooth, without crossing into the bitter territory that "dark roast" supermarket beans mistake for depth. Good as a flat white with body, better as a straight espresso after a good meal.
The Single Origins, ranked by how much they'll challenge you
Brazil Terra Nova Farm — butterscotch, cocoa, Brazil nuts — is the one to buy if you've been curious about our single origin coffees but haven't made the jump. It works in milk. It works black. It won't throw off your morning. It's the bridge.
Ethiopia Chire is a different drink entirely: elderflower, white peach, butterscotch. Lighter, softer, expressive in a way that will quietly shift your understanding of what coffee can taste like — but only if you give it some space. Drink it black, or with minimal milk. Not for travel mugs.
On the Decaf Side of Things
Brazil São Paulo Decaf is processed using the Swiss Water method and tastes like: milk chocolate, toasted peanuts, a hint of liquorice. It tastes like coffee. That shouldn't be a selling point in 2025, but given the state of most decaf, it still is. If you make an afternoon coffee or you're trying to sleep better without giving up the ritual, this is worth trying again even if you've written decaf off entirely.
Here's our full range of decaf coffee beans →
One thing Venn does that most brands don't
Their ethical sourcing position has a detail worth noting: they acknowledge that many farms operating to genuinely high standards can't afford official fair trade certification — and they don't penalise those farms for it. That's a more honest take on what "ethically sourced" actually means than most brands bother to offer.
All five are available now through PCX as part of our April Roaster of the Month series. We've carefully selected Venn alongside 25+ Perth roasters — so if Berwick St becomes your new go-to, you can keep getting it easily. And when you're ready to try something different, it's all in the same place.
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