About
A lab, not a showroom.
Black Coffee Lab started as a workbench in a Woodstock garage where machines came to be fixed and left pulling better shots than they ever had. The fixing taught us which machines are worth owning, which grinders actually hold a setting, and which accessories fix real problems.
Today we sell that shortlist — with the know-how and the support to make it work in your kitchen. We are for home coffee enthusiasts and professional baristas: anyone obsessed with better coffee.
Precision · Performance · Passion
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Precision
We measure. Dose, yield, time, temperature. Then we teach you to do the same, so results repeat.
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Performance
Every product on the shelf earned its place on our counter first. If it does not perform, we do not stock it.
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Passion
We are here because we love the ritual. That is why the drip is the only colour — it is the point of all of it.
The mark
A box that pulls a shot.
The symbol is built from three ideas. The cube is the box your equipment arrives in — and a nod to the lab bench. The flared base is a portafilter. The drip is the shot: proof of a good extraction, and the only place colour appears.
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The box
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The portafilter
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The shot
Visit the lab.
Pull shots on everything before you decide. Bring your beans. 12 Lab Street, Woodstock, Cape Town. Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00, Sat 09:00–13:00.