A young family coffee business trading from a stall at Origins Market in Busselton, with medium and medium-dark blends roasted to its own recipe.
Obison is not a surname or a place. The business says the word is made from the names of the family's two sons, joined together, which tells you most of what you need to know about its scale. This is a young family operation in Busselton, and the name above the stall is the family itself.
The stall is inside the Origins Market community in Busselton, where Obison pours coffee for market visitors. The beans are sold through its own website.
The business is open about where it is up to. Its coffee is currently roasted off-site, to the family's own recipe and standards, and the stated goal is to bring the roasting in-house at Origins Market. That is a plain thing for a business to say about itself, and it is to the family's credit that they say it. On sourcing, Obison says the farmers it buys from receive above fair prices for their harvest.
The blends do not take themselves too seriously. They carry names such as Wakey Wakey!, Rocket Surgery and Coffee To A Kn!fe Fight, and under the jokes the descriptions are straightforward. Wakey Wakey! is a medium roast of Brazilian and Colombian beans. Rocket Surgery is a medium roast meant to suit people who drink their coffee with milk and people who drink it black. Coffee To A Kn!fe Fight is the medium-dark roast, with the biggest body in the lineup. The tasting notes on this page are Obison's own, put into our words.
Not everyone in a household drinks coffee, and the range allows for that. Alongside the beans there are loose-leaf teas from Infuse Tea Company, including an English Breakfast, a green sencha, peppermint and chamomile, as well as a chai latte powder and a drinking chocolate. Obison also runs a wholesale program, which it calls the Obison Coffee Family Program.
Check the maker's site before visiting the market.