Broken Bean — Central Coast's Craft Coffee Liqueur Distillery
Broken Bean is a family-owned business from the Central Coast of New South Wales that has built a passionate following among coffee lovers and cocktail enthusiasts alike — a small, independent producer whose ground-breaking cold brew process and commitment to quality ingredients have produced a coffee liqueur of extraordinary richness, complexity, and character. In a category often dominated by mass-produced, one-dimensional products, Broken Bean stands apart as a genuine artisan — a producer that has broken with convention to create something truly exceptional.
Philosophy & Story
The Broken Bean philosophy is captured in the brand's name and its founding ethos: for the truly creative to occur, something needs to break first. To crack open, peer inside, and allow the heart of the bean to reveal itself. It is this spirit of curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge convention that drives everything Broken Bean does — from the selection of specialty coffee beans to the ground-breaking cold brew process that sets their liqueur apart from everything else in the category.
There is lineage in everything at Broken Bean. The family's deep connection to the Central Coast of NSW, their respect for the craft of coffee making, and their belief that a coffee liqueur should be a genuine expression of the coffee at its heart — not a sweetened, artificial approximation of it — are the values that have guided the business from its first batch to its most recent. The result is a liqueur that is a call to create — to design a new dynasty, a new normal for cocktail excellence.
The Cold Brew Process
The defining characteristic of Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur — and the innovation that sets it apart from every other coffee liqueur on the market — is its ground-breaking cold brew process. Rather than extracting coffee flavour through heat — the conventional approach that can produce bitter, harsh, or one-dimensional results — Broken Bean uses cold brew extraction to unlock an extraordinary richness and intricacy of flavour that hot brewing simply cannot achieve.
Cold brew coffee is produced by steeping coarsely ground specialty coffee beans in cold water for an extended period — a slow, patient process that extracts the coffee's natural sweetness, fruit, and chocolate notes while leaving behind the harsh acids and bitter compounds that hot water releases. The result is a coffee concentrate of exceptional smoothness, depth, and complexity — the ideal foundation for a liqueur of genuine quality.
Broken Bean combines their cold brew coffee with Australian wheat vodka and Australian sugar, blending carefully to achieve the perfect balance of coffee, spirit, and sweetness. The fortification of the cold brew flavours directly from a fresh brew guarantees that every essential flavour gets its chance to impress — the dark chocolate, the fruit-filled middle, the deluxe cocoa finish — without any single element dominating or overwhelming the others.
The final and perhaps most important step in the Broken Bean process is resting. After blending, the liqueur is allowed to rest for approximately one month, during which excess coffee particles settle out at the bottom of the tank, resulting in a refined, clean finish on the liquid. This patient resting period also allows the intricate flavours to combine, develop, and mature — producing a liqueur of greater integration, complexity, and depth than an immediately bottled product could achieve.
Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur 700mL
The result of this meticulous process is a coffee liqueur of genuine distinction — a beautifully balanced expression of dark chocolate, fruit, and cocoa that is as rewarding sipped slowly over ice as it is mixed into the finest Espresso Martini you have ever tasted. Made with cold brew specialty coffee, Australian wheat vodka, and Australian sugar. Dark chocolate on the nose and palate, a fruit-filled middle of remarkable complexity, and a deluxe cocoa finish that lingers long after the last sip. At 20% ABV, it is a liqueur of genuine presence and depth — rich enough to stand alone, versatile enough to elevate any cocktail.
How to Enjoy Broken Bean
Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur is outstanding served over ice in a rocks glass — allow it a minute or two to open and reveal its full aromatic complexity before sipping. For the ultimate Espresso Martini, combine 45mL Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur with 30mL vodka and 30mL freshly pulled espresso in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake vigorously until the shaker is ice cold, and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with three coffee beans. The cold brew base means the coffee flavour is clean, smooth, and intensely present — producing an Espresso Martini of a quality that pre-made mixes simply cannot replicate. Broken Bean is also outstanding in a Coffee Negroni (Broken Bean, gin, sweet vermouth), a White Russian (Broken Bean, vodka, cream), or simply poured over vanilla ice cream for an instant affogato of genuine sophistication.
Explore our Broken Bean range below and discover why this Central Coast family distillery has become one of Australia's most exciting and distinctive craft liqueur producers.
