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Skybury Coffee, Mareeba, in Far North Queensland, Australia, is about the growing and production of sustainable and quality coffee locally. I recently ordered a kilogram of ground coffee online straight from the Skybury Coffee plantation. As a satisfied customer, I've hence written the following to promote the business and its online ordering with some pictures to give an idea of what the ordering experience is like when purchasing ground coffee directly from Skybury Coffee.

The Skybury Coffee website features bulk-buying options up to a kilogram of ground coffee, ground for a choice of plunger, espresso, stovetop, percolator, and filter, as well as whole beans. It also features gift cards and other products aside from coffee, including liqueurs, skincare, and plantation-related food items. The cost of a kilogram of ground coffee at the time of this review's publication ranges from $49 (AUD) per kilogram for dark, house, or medium to $53 (AUD) per kilogram for peaberry coffee. If you want a variety of roasts, then there are also quarter-kilogram packs of coffee as well as a 'taster's pack' with one each of dark, house, and medium on sale for $43 (AUD).

For the online shop part of the website, see skybury.com.au/collections .

The coffee is very earthy compared to other Australian coffees ; even in the slightly pricier peaberry coffee, it's noticeable. However, earthy coffee is appreciable, and once one can enjoy the flavour it does get possible to taste its notes in significant detail, especially as Skybury makes a very refined ground coffee.

The plantation offers a variety of roasts, and its peaberry coffee is medium-roasted rather than dark-roasted, although I presume all the Skybury coffee is earthy. While the type of roast changes the flavour, it is not to a point where the coffee gets overly acidic, fruity, or chocolatey. While not a professional coffee taster, I can recommend, based on my recent order and from reading the Skybury website , that Skybury's peaberry ground coffee tastes like buttery chocolatey coffee as far as earthy coffees go but with hints of lime. On a personal level, when I first tasted it, the flavour seemed dominated by a 'rustic herbaceousness' but it's a particular sort of earthiness that indeed gets more appreciable over time. If you are not used to this type of coffee, it can be surprising, but I can definitely recommend it to lovers of earthy coffee or those who want to shop sustainably local and try or experience different types of coffee.

Australian-grown coffee is naturally lower in caffeine, but a fair bit of online articles have been devoted to the higher caffeine of the peaberry beans. If purchasing the peaberry variety, Skybury Coffee could be higher in caffeine than most Australian coffee, but the other varieties aside from peaberry generally can be considered approximately ten to twenty percent lower in caffeine than overseas-sourced brands. The reason is thought to be that the farming processes don't stimulate caffeine in the beans, as caffeine levels in the coffee plant protect it against pests. As Australian coffee is farmed so sustainably, its beans naturally don't need to produce much caffeine, and that eventually becomes related to the coffee products themselves.

Conclusively, I've left a captioned gallery below to illustrate the ordering experience based on a recent online order delivery. All photos used in this review were taken by the author in 2025.









Some related WeekendNotes articles by the same author include When is the Best Time to Visit Far North Queensland? and Ten Sustainable French Press Recipes as well as Coffee Tasting .


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