House Blend

The Dose House Blend is a really sweet, balanced and versatile coffee that is approachable and delicious to all palates! It reminds us of milk chocolate caramel and toasted almond. It has a reliable full body that coats the mouth and cuts elegantly through your milk of choice. It holds all the flavours you want from an everyday coffee but also offers a moreish and rich sweetness with some fruit that make it a really interesting and appealing coffee.

We use our house blend in the Dose flagship cafe as our house espresso, however this blend is designed to be used across all brewing methods and tastes great as a really balanced, sweet and approachable drip coffee as well.

The current iteration of the Dose House Blend is a combination of 4 coffees:

Brazil - ‘Toriba’ is robust and rounded and is the dark chocolate backbone of our blend.

Brazil - 'Bairro Blend' is a full bodied and chocolatey field blend from Fazenda Rancho Feliz in Sul de Minas sourced by Apex Coffee Imports.

Brazil - ‘Emilio Raimundo' adds a little bit of funk and richness. We recently trialled this coffee into the blend and it really made it sing!

Guatemala - 'Franco Family' from Finca El Desoriente this washed coffee adds some sweet notes of toffee and biscuit. 

We look forward to the ongoing challenge of maintaining a blend profile throughout the year by substituting similar profiled coffees from different growing regions in and out according to seasonal availability.

Brew method:

We roast this coffee medium and it is best enjoyed as a filter or as an espresso.

For filter, we recommend using a 16:1 water to coffee ratio (for example when using 20 grams of coffee, brew with 320ml of water) and a medium coarse grind.

For espresso, we recommend using a 2.5:1 yield to dose ratio (for example 18 grams of coffee to make a 45 ml espresso), using a fine grind and aiming for a 30 second shot time.