My Story

Welcome, I'm Andrew Harris the creator and developer behind The DripLab.

Once a chef who sneaked out of the kitchen to make his own coffee at the restaurant’s café, I would battle the baristas at their own game improving my latte art and espresso skills. Now I have a career in specialty coffee, specialising in cold-drip and product development.

Even though I was a chef for 10 years, I knew I had my industry focus a little wrong. I loved cooking and still do, but speciality coffee was always my calling. There is a certain feeling, a sense of reward when people enjoyed my cuisine. I still get this proud feeling but from my coffee brewing and developing new products people love to use. I enjoy having the time and opportunity to explain and teach people new techniques that helps their brewing or fuels there passions. 

Driven by passion and almost completely self taught (research, books and a lot of trial & error), I got my hands on any and all coffee brewing devices and gadgets. I started purchasing green beans and roasting coffee, growing coffee trees and (un)successfully harvesting the cherries. Ha, we learn from our failures! 

From these experiments and exposure to new areas I quickly learnt that speciality coffee had a lot of Highly Skilled professionals at every point of the supply chain, each contributing to the sustainable and responsible industry that has become Speciality coffee.

I transitioned out of cooking and into the speciality coffee scene, making the move from Queensland to the speciality coffee capital, Melbourne! I landed my dream job that has provided me endless opportunities in a supportive environment to develop my skills and improve my knowledge. (Thanks Padre coffee, love you guys!!).

I believe information should be shared with everyone and not held onto. This led me to starting “The DripLab” and to the development of my first brewing product: The DripLab Cold-Drip system. I started by breaking down the process of cold-drip, understanding the science behind cold extraction, the solubility between different beans, roast development, water makeup etc, and then developed a cold-drip unit drawing influences from my first cold-drip system. (build from a makeshift chemistry setup) 

Let’s explore this wonderful world of Coffee together….