Rethinking your coffee supplier? Good coffee should be the easy part

You already know good coffee matters to your customers. The frustrating part is usually everything around it: beans that taste different from one week to the next, a price that looked great until the cup stopped being steady, a coffee supplier who promised the world but quietly stopped showing up, a "free" machine that silently turned into a contract you weren't sure about, training that was promised but never quite happened, and deliveries that land on someone else's schedule, not yours. Sound familiar?

We've sat across the table from enough café owners and office managers to know these stories well. We've also lived a fair few of them ourselves, from behind our own counters, and we've been the ones staring at a delivery that didn't show. So we built our wholesale the other way round: around you, not around us.

Why Partners Stay: Quality, Consistency, and Service

Consistency You Can Taste

Nothing loses regulars faster than a cup that changes from one week to the next. We roast every batch to order, at our SFA-certified Bedok roastery, on our own schedule, with quality checked before any bag leaves the building, so your cup tastes the same on a slammed Saturday as it does on a sleepy Tuesday.

Daily Delivery, Flexible Volumes

Running out mid-week shouldn't be a thing that happens to you. We offer daily delivery island-wide every weekday, and your volumes flex with what you're actually selling, growing with you when a second café or a bigger order comes along, with no lock-in to hold you in place.

Training and Support That Sticks Around

Plenty of suppliers vanish after the first delivery. Our hands-on barista training in Singapore shows up for your team, on your own machine (and it's genuinely fun, if we may say so). After that we stay reachable, for the recalibrations, the troubleshooting, the odd, yet always welcome "does this taste right to you?" call. Think of us as the coffee people on your team.

Own Your Equipment

A "free" machine usually isn't. Your machine stays yours, never leased or tied to your beans, and our referral network points you to trade prices when you're ready to buy.

Custom Blends, a Coffee That's Yours

When every café nearby serves a decent cup, decent stops being enough. That’s why you get a real say in the coffee, from a blend built around your menu to seasonal single origins your regulars can ask about.

That's the whole pitch, really. We believe in an honest process, never a shortcut. And as café owners ourselves, every one of these exists because we needed it too.

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Trusted by businesses across Singapore

Over the years we've built on-site coffee bars, blended house coffees, and kept the cups full at events for teams like Gucci, Lexus, Coach, DBS, Cloudflare, and Bombardier. No two briefs were the same, but the coffee always was.

The team behind Brawn & Brains Coffee hold true to their promise of delivering amazing experiences to customers through crafted cups of quality coffee. Our partnership first sparked via our shared brand values of Craftsmanship and the art of hospitality or Omotenashi. Two years on, we are delighted to look back at the amazing experiences we share with our customers behind every cup of Lexus Latte at the Lexus Boutique and our brand activations.

Lexus Team

LEXUS
Brawn & Brains Coffee have consistently delivered quality products and amazing customer service, we’ve been engaging the team since the start and have not seen the need to change to another coffee roaster. Always going the extra mile to make sure our coffee programme is taken care of.

Average Service Team

AVERAGE SERVICE
Brawn & Brains Coffee has been our go-to partner for artisanal coffee supplies, backed by genuine expertise, craftsmanship, and a deep passion for quality coffee. Gwen and Xavier have been more than just suppliers, they’ve been incredibly supportive partners to small business owners like us, always generous with their knowledge and guidance. Their warmth, professionalism, and responsiveness make working with them a pleasure. We’re truly grateful for the partnership and look forward to growing our offerings together.

Ollella Team

Ollella

Our roasting's also picked up a few nods at the Australian International Coffee Awards, which sees more than 800 entries from over 180 global exhibitors a year: 2 Silvers in 2020 and a Bronze in 2019.

Since 2013 · Trusted by Leading Brands · 100% Arabica · SFA-Licensed


A wholesale coffee partner who runs cafés too

At Brawn and Brains, we've been roasting in Singapore since 2013, long enough to learn what cafés, offices, and event teams actually need from a coffee bean supplier (and what drives them up the wall). We didn't learn it from a distance either. We started out running a café, and we still do, every single day. So the wholesale we've built goes beyond delivering beans: it's the training, the workflow, the picking-up-the-phone, all the everyday stuff of serving great coffee that we deal with ourselves each morning.

We strongly believe that coffee is not just a cost on the menu. It forms an integral part of a customer's experience when they visit you. And a genuinely good cup of coffee has the power to brighten someone's morning and make your customers return. That's the measure we hold ourselves to as well: partners who stay because the coffee, and the people behind it, never let them down. When you work with us, you're not adding a supplier. You're adding a team that's invested in how your coffee business does.

How our wholesale partnership works

01 Tell us about your business

Tell us about your business

Share what you're after through the form or a quick WhatsApp, and we'll point you toward the right beans.

02 Taste and choose your coffee

Taste and choose your coffee

Come in for a free tasting at our café, pulled on our own machines, then pick the blend or single origin that fits your menu.

03 Get set up, and keep going

Get set up, and keep going

We get you set up, train your team on your own machine, and stay on hand as your needs change.

The first few months are flexible with no lock-in contract or monthly minimum. We deliver island-wide, daily Monday to Friday, not on a fixed slot you have to plan your week around, and we'll try our best on urgent ones too.

Bring Our Coffee to Your Business

Wholesale coffee, custom blends, and the support around them

Coffee wholesale in Singapore runs from large commercial suppliers to small specialty roasters, and prices usually come down to origin, blend, and how much you order. Ours start from $36 a kilogram, with the training and support to back it up. (We'll talk about exact pricing once we know what your menu needs.)

Our wholesale beans are 100% Arabica, packed in 500g or 1kg bags and ground to your brew method on request. Run our house blends and rotating single origins. Here's what comes with every partnership:

Every wholesale partner gets:
✓ Freshly roasted, made-to-order coffee
✓ A custom blend built around your menu
✓ One complimentary training session per outlet
✓ A complimentary first refresher
✓ Equipment recommendations through our referral network
✓ Ongoing barista and hospitality support
✓ Flexible ordering, no monthly minimum
✓ Room to grow, from your first café to your next few
✓ No lock-in contracts

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about working with Brawn & Brains Coffee.

How do I order wholesale coffee beans from Brawn & Brains Coffee?

Send us an enquiry through the form on this page, or message us on WhatsApp if that's easier. We'll talk through what you're serving, point you toward beans that fit, and where it helps, invite you over for a tasting at our café.

What kinds of businesses do you supply?

Cafés and restaurants, corporate offices, event companies, and even café owners setting up for the first time. Anything from a single office pantry to a café group with several outlets. We roast in our own facility, so bigger, more regular orders won't stretch our lead times.

Do you supply coffee for events?

Yes, both one-off and recurring. We've supplied corporate and private events, product launches, and brand activations, and built on-site coffee bars for a few names you'd recognise. Tell us the date, the crowd, and the setting through the form or WhatsApp, and we'll sort out the rest.

How do I find a wholesale coffee supplier?

We'd always say start with a tasting. Ask for samples pulled the way you'll actually serve them, then look past the beans at how the supplier works, how fresh the roast is, how flexible the terms are, whether training's included, and whether someone picks up when something goes wrong. Ask what happens on an urgent order too, whether your coffee's tied to leased equipment, and whether they're SFA-licensed if you're in Singapore. For a more detailed checklist, see our wholesale supplier evaluation guide.

We already have a coffee supplier. Is it worth switching?

Sometimes it isn't, and we'll happily tell you so. But if the cup's been drifting or you've outgrown the arrangement, the easiest way to find out is to put our coffee next to what you're serving now and see which one you'd rather stand behind. No contract, no lock-in, so trying us won’t tie you down.

Can I taste the coffee before committing?

Please do! We start with a complimentary tasting at our café, a full flight on equipment calibrated to our roast profiles, so you know exactly what the coffee should taste like in service.

How much does wholesale coffee cost in Singapore?

Wholesale specialty coffee here generally lands somewhere between S$30 and S$50 a kilogram, depending on origin, blend and volume. Ours moves on the same things. Send us an enquiry and we'll give you exact pricing once we know what you're serving and how much of it goes out.

Is there a minimum order or a contract?

There's a standard minimum, and we keep things flexible over your first few months while you find your real usage. No contracts, no required monthly orders, and because we don't lease out machines, there's never equipment to hand back if you decide to leave. We'll walk you through minimums and lead times when you enquire.

What coffee do you supply?

100% Arabica, roasted to order on our two Probatone drum roasters. Choose a custom blend built around your menu, or one of the single origins we rotate through the seasons, and we'll grind it to your brew method on request.

Do you supply wholesale coffee powder for offices and cafés?

We keep things whole bean for good reason. Most businesses looking for wholesale coffee powder really just want coffee that's consistent and good, and the freshest way to get there is whole beans ground to your brew method on request, rather than pre-ground weeks in advance.

Why choose a specialty coffee supplier instead of a general coffee distributor?

A general distributor moves volume. We look after your coffee. That means roasting to order instead of pulling from a warehouse, building a blend around your menu, training the people actually pulling the shots, and picking up the phone when you call. Mostly, it means working with people who care whether the cup's any good.

What are your delivery terms?

We deliver island-wide, daily, Monday to Friday, and we'll do our best to accommodate urgent or weekend orders too. Delivery's charged, and we'll confirm the rate once we know your order.

Do you provide barista training?

Always. Every partner outlet gets one complimentary hands-on session, run on-site on your own machine, covering extraction, milk texturing and equipment care. We run hospitality training too, for cafés wanting to sharpen their front of house. Your first refresher is on us, and we're happy to arrange more after that.

Do you loan or sell coffee machines?

We don't loan or lease machines, and don't have plans to. We'd rather you own your equipment outright, so we'll point you to our referral network for trade pricing on new machines, or help you track down a reliable used one.

Do you work with larger companies and brands?

We do. We've built on-site coffee bars and kept the cups full for teams including Coach, DBS, Gucci, Lexus and Bombardier, and developed custom blends for brand partners along the way. Every blend gets built around how you actually serve, since a high-volume espresso bar and a filter-led menu want very different things.


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