We have an offer to make some money for Foundation.

The makers of KALDI coffee have offered to sell coffee direct to Rotarians and in return will donate $3.00 for every 250gram bag, $6.00 for every 500gram bag and $12.00 for every 1kg bag to The Rotary Foundation.

All you have to do is fill out this form and send it to KALDI and they will send the coffee to the Rotarian and forward the money to the District Treasurer for TRF.

We will have the coffee on display at Conference.

The Kaldi group

The Kaldi group comprises of Kaldi Coffee and Kaldi Espresso Bar. The group was established in 2002, when Jamie Royal and Nick Grunbaum decided that the coffee industry was well overdue for a massive shake up, in two main areas:

• 1. Roasting the coffee beans with a unique custom designed and built fluidised bed air roasting technique, rather than the traditional drum roasters used by competitors.
  
  
• 2. Freshness, we were amazed that most establishments were selling either imported or large commercially roasted coffee that had been roasted 12 months prior. Why drink old coffee when you could be drinking freshly roasted coffee.

The Kaldi Legend

The legend tells the story of Kaldi the goat herder, who lived in Ethiopia about 300 AD. He noticed that after his goats had been eating red berries from a tree, the goats were lively and energetic until late in the evening. Kaldi tried the red berries himself and experienced the same effect. He mentioned this to the monks in the nearby monastery, who from then on took coffee to stay awake during the nightly prayer gatherings. The legend also has it that these monks discovered by chance that the beans could be roasted and that a beverage prepared from the roasted beans not only produced the same effect, but also tasted far better. The coffee beans, and the beverage made from them, were from then on regarded as a luxurious stimulant.

Kaldi Coffee

Kaldi Coffee is a specialist wholesale coffee roasting house located in Queanbeyan NSW. Kaldi sources coffees from both Australia and various countries all around the world. As each of the beans displays very unique characteristics and qualities, we blend them at our Australian roasting house to uniquely balance the four key characteristics of coffee the flavour, acidity, body and aftertaste producing the perfect blends for our consumers. These beans are then roasted using our unique fluidised bed air roasting process.

Kaldi coffee supplies coffee and all associated coffee products including barista training. Kaldi Coffee also supplies, installs and maintains La San Marco espresso machines manufactured in Italy.

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