Many people are confused with all the variations of coffees available in a café, but there is as much confusion around the different types of teas available.  The Vibe team worked to put together a definition of the top Tea drinks in the market to help educate people on the similarities and differences of the…

What is a Chai Latte?   The title “Chai Latte” can be misleading because there is no coffee in this hot drink!  It’s not a “true” latte.   It’s a tea-based drink which originated in India thousands of years ago. The term “chai” means “tea”,  and the foamed milk from cafés is what gives the drink…

Before we get into the discussion of how to descale your coffee pod machine and explain why it’s important, the first question to be answered is what does “descaling” mean? Defining the term “Descale”: A cup of coffee is approximately 99% water, and all water contains minerals (such as calcium and magnesium), passing through the…

One of the more common questions we get from our customers is, is there a connection between the cost of a coffee pod machine and great tasting coffee? A coffee machine does not make a great coffee – the way coffee beans are roasted, ground and packaged makes great coffee This is why Vibe Coffee…

You can go out to a restaurant or cocktail bar and enjoy an Espresso Martini, but what happens if you want to enjoy one at home!  The Vibe Coffee team have put their heads together to provide a simple guide on how you can be an Espresso Martini “Mixologist” and do it yourself! The Espresso…

When you go to a café, you are given whatever coffee that café supports.  When you buy a coffee from Vibe Coffee you are offered a selection of coffees with varying flavours and intensities.  But what does the “Intensity” rating mean to you?  And how does a coffee intensity rating help you decide which coffee…

Keeping up with all the fancy coffee names can be a challenge.  But what becomes harder to understand is the different milk treatments that come with popular coffee drinks both at home and in Cafes. By way of a quick summary, milk is used to create a Café Latte, Cappuccino, Flat White, Mocha, and a…

This may appear to be an unusual topic for Vibe Coffee to cover, but one of the Vibe founders loves coffee (obviously) AND has severe Asthma.  So this topic is dear to our hearts. And because there is so much research on the topic of coffee helping Asthmatics, we wanted to do our part to…

A Current Affair ran a story yesterday discussing how Australian coffee prices are through the roof, with the main causes being supply and shipping costs. In some situations in Sydney, (as told by the Current Affair) people are paying $8.90 for a soy latte. We at Vibe Coffee find this pricing increase unusual when you…

With large international brands driving the coffee pod market with coffee capsules (“coffee capsules” are the plastic containers that hold coffee and fit into coffee pod machines) which are made from materials that are not eco-friendly, Vibe Coffee decided to work with international coffee capsule suppliers who specialise in the manufacture 100% biodegradable materials. The…