Karon Farm Coffee

Karon Farm Coffee We practice the science/art of roasting then blending multiple varietals and origins, to produce the optimum balance of flavor, aroma & body in our coffees

Ethically sourced specialty coffee roasted on the outskirts of Ballarat in Gordon Victoria

Here's the number, not just the vibes.We check every batch on the refractometer before it leaves the roastery. It's the ...
11/09/2026

Here's the number, not just the vibes.
We check every batch on the refractometer before it leaves the roastery. It's the difference between "tastes about right" and actually knowing the extraction is where it should be.

This is what quality control actually looks like, not a highlight reel.

09/09/2026

Nicks to do list at the roastery today.

Servicing commercial cafe equipment.

Packing wholesale orders & Subscriptions then Local deliveries.

Setting up for Barista training with Marcus.

The bag sitting above your coffee machine doesn't get a line on the board. Roasting & packing happens here every day regardless.

If you run a cafe, we can supply the coffee, service the machine and train the people using it.

If you drink it at home, there's a subscription that turns up on your schedule or drop in and pick up a bag direct.

05/09/2026

Campanas! A Ballarat staple since 1976 founded by Piero Campana, twin sisters Silvia Campana (Omizzolo), and Joan Pidutti (Omizzolo) as well as Hector Pidutti. 

We chatted with Serge Campana about their Piero Blend, developed and roasted at Karon Farm Coffee.

The blend pays homage to Nonno Piero and his love for espresso.

We’re proud to be roasting, packing and delivering delicious coffee to one of Ballarat’s best loved destinations.

C A M P A N A S
Inglenook Dairy
The Kind of Cake People Talk About

01/09/2026

This month's single origin is grown on an island.

Gishamwana Island sits in Lake Kivu, Rwanda. You get there by boat. 35,000 trees, all grown, milled and dried on the island itself. It is isolated enough that most of the pests and diseases that hit African coffee have never made it across.

It is an anaerobic natural, so the cherries ferment sealed before they go on the beds. That is where the fruit comes from.

Stone fruit, chocolate and citrus. We are pouring it as espresso and as filter in store all month. The espresso is the bigger cup, the filter is more delicate and you get more of the detail. Worth having both.

Bought through Cafe Imports. Roasted here in Wendouree.

Order at karonfarmcoffee.com.au or come and drink it with us.

27/08/2026

I started roasting coffee in a bread maker with a heat gun. That was 2003. Instructions off an online forum, no coffee background, just a willingness to keep testing until the cups stopped being terrible.

After that it was a run of home roasters, each one a step up, each one teaching me something the last one couldn't.

In 2015 I bought a commercial drum roaster and that's the point Karon Farm stopped being a hobby and became a business. Now roasting for local cafes and home customers out of a warehouse in Wendouree.

Twenty-odd years on, still the same instinct. Keep testing, keep adjusting, don't roast anything you wouldn't drink yourself.

Lal Lal Falls is the one we reach for when we can't decide.It's a blend of Brazilian and Papua New Guinea beans, medium ...
25/08/2026

Lal Lal Falls is the one we reach for when we can't decide.

It's a blend of Brazilian and Papua New Guinea beans, medium roast, with a nice mouthfeel and a little sweet acidity. There's caramel and sweetness up front, and a sneaky bit of cocoa in the aftertaste.

Drink it black if that's your thing, or it holds up just as well in a flat white, latte or cappuccino.

No wrong way to have it, which is kind of the point.
Grab a bag - link in bio.

Every bag has a roasted on date. This is one of the moments it points to.Give it a couple of days to settle, then you ha...
21/08/2026

Every bag has a roasted on date. This is one of the moments it points to.

Give it a couple of days to settle, then you have got four to six weeks where the coffee is genuinely at its best. After that the flavour and aroma fade. It is still coffee, it is just not what it was.

So the date goes on every bag that leaves the roastery. The day it was actually roasted, not a guess at when it might taper off.

Which means you can check. You know how old your coffee is before you open it.

Up to 30 Colombian smallholders in one bag. That's what's in your flat white.Mount Buninyong is two coffees. That's the ...
16/08/2026

Up to 30 Colombian smallholders in one bag. That's what's in your flat white.

Mount Buninyong is two coffees. That's the whole recipe.

Half is Gran Galope from Cauca, Colombia. Washed, grown between 1,400 and 2,000 metres, pulled together from 10 to 30 smallholder farms and cupped in Popayan before anyone signs anything. Citrus, toffee, pecan.

The other half is Nossa, from Vale da Grama in Brazil. Natural process, dried on patios for 20 to 25 days. Caramel and almond. Every bag we buy helps put trees back into 277 acres of Atlantic Forest. That forest is down to roughly 12 percent of what it used to be.

Together they give you rich chocolate, caramel and smooth toffee sweetness. Low acidity. Full syrupy body.

We roast it every day. It works on a $300 home machine and a $20,000 cafe machine both.

Link in bio to order Mount Buninyong.



Image credit: Cafe Imports.

13/08/2026

Not all beans are ready to become coffee.

Some apparently have bigger plans.

Disclaimer: No coffee beans were actually harmed, or permitted to escape. Karon Farm Coffee’s heat sealer is far more competent than this reel suggests. Our roaster, however, was stitched up.

The best thing about Tuesday mornings?The smell of coffee roasting in the warehouse and geting those freshly roasted bea...
10/08/2026

The best thing about Tuesday mornings?

The smell of coffee roasting in the warehouse and geting those freshly roasted beans across the country to our online customers.

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Ballarat, VIC

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm

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+61493431705

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