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Adelaide Coffee Good and Suits Our Taste
News July 1937
Adelaide’s white coffee, which was given a black name on Saturday by four bright young wives from gay Vienna, found a champion today in Mr. G. C. Wauchope, director of a city catering and cafe firm. The gay Viennese-wives of the four celebrated Comedian Harmonists who have just begun a season in Perth complain that our coffee is not coffee at all, that milk is put in it, and that "too much something that is not coffee" is added to it.
“The sort of coffee that different people like is largely a matter of custom,” Mr. Wauchope said. “Australians have become accustomed to having chicory and milk with their coffee, but evidently this does not appeal to the Vienese. Possibly also they are used to varieties of coffee with which we are un familiar. Coffee comes from many different sources, and each variety has a distinct flavor. Mocha coffee, for instance, is much stronger than that used in Adelaide. Adelaide people like both milk and chicory with their coffee. Chicory by it self has a bitter, harsh taste, and only a very small percentage is added. But Adelaide people would soon-notice its absence. They don’t like pure coffee, which is weaker in color and lacks the twang that chicory gives. I don’t know where the Viennese ladies had their coffee in Adelaide on Saturday, but generally speaking, are rather careless in the making of coffee
Coffee taverns in Adelaide
Adelaide Observer May 1879
A meeting of gentlemen favourable to the establishment in Adelaide of institutions similar to the Coffee Palaces and British Workmen Taverns which have become so popular in many of the large towns in England, was held in the Mayor’s Room on Wednesday afternoon, May 28 The meeting was a larger one than had been anticipated, about forty gentlemen being present. The idea was very heartily taken up, and the resolutions were carried unanimously. The Mayor, in opening the proceedings, explained that at the preliminary meeting held a few days ago it was felt desirable to obtain more information on the subject of coffee palaces, and then to call another meeting. He hoped the question would now be discussed on its merits. He might mention that the City Surveyor had informed him that in Sheffield he knew of a coffee palace which paid well financially, besides being a great boon to the district in which it was established. The Rev. J. Lyall said he had had no opportunity of inspecting any of these coffeehouses or palaces, but from what he had read be believed they would be one of the best means possible of coping with the evils of intemperance. In a letter to the Register some time ago he stated his opinion that most men went to public- houses more for the sake of companionship than for the drink there. They went to the public-houses because they could there meet with men of their own class, read the newspapers, and talk over political and general matters. Of course, home should b the most attractive place; but it was well known that it was not always so.
Grinds, brews quick coffee
News Dec 1934
Adelaide’s first coffee grinding-and making machine went into operation. yesterday in the Berkley Tea Rooms, Hindley street. The proprietor, Mr. George Sichier, is pictured above with the machine. He paid £500 to import it from Italy, and says 15 seconds after the beans go in at one end they emerge as black, ground-free coffee at the other. With the machine operating on, three faucets, a fresh cup is available every five seconds when the pressure is on. Mr. Sichler, who introduced the first sandwich machine to. Adelaide, said he saw a similar coffee machine in Melbourne. He promptly ordered one from Italy. “I don’t know exactly how the machine works, but it seems boiling water and steam are forced through a sieveful of ground coffee at the delivery end,” said Mr. Sichler. “One sieveful makes enough for one small, rich black coffee, or two cups of milk coffee.”