Original Varia Brewer
Best New Product
Specialty Coffee Association · 2021
Consumer Coffee Preparation & Serving Equipment (Non-electrical)
Our original multi-method brewer. The first award in the Varia story.
THE STORY OF VARIA
From curiosity
to connection.
Our story begins with coffee—and the belief that thoughtful tools can bring us closer to everything that goes into a cup.
NELSON, NEW ZEALAND
A life in coffee.
An idea worth building.
Ramsey Gyde began learning to brew coffee at fifteen in Nelson, New Zealand. That early curiosity became a life spent asking how coffee could be understood and made better.
Over the next two decades, his journey took him from New Zealand to Australia, and through coffee farms, roasteries and brewing spaces. At every stage, he encountered the care that gives a coffee its character: the decisions at origin, the work of the roaster and the skill of the person brewing.
Brewing became a point of connection between all of them. The equipment in a person’s hands could make that connection easier to explore. It could help someone recognise what changed, understand why, and carry that knowledge into the next cup.
Ramsey created his first multi-functional coffee brewer in 2012. Varia Brewing Limited was established in 2018, turning that first idea into a growing family of tools designed around precision, adaptability and the people who use them.
OUR PURPOSE
More understanding.
More freedom to brew.
A coffee carries the work of many people before it reaches your kitchen. Brewing is your opportunity to discover it. Every origin, roast and method offers something different, and the tools you use should help you respond.
That is why Varia makes precision practical. A clear measurement helps you notice a change. An intuitive adjustment helps you act on it. A familiar reference helps you return to a cup you enjoyed.
We design for the confidence to begin and the freedom to keep learning. There is always another coffee, another question and another way to make the ritual your own.
DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED IN NEW ZEALAND
The detail has
to earn its place.
Our design starts with what a person needs to do, then works inward to the mechanism that makes it possible.
The feel of an adjustment, the route coffee takes through a grinder, the information visible during a pour: these are the points where engineering becomes experience. We consider them together with proportion, materials and the space a tool occupies.
On VS4, that means reaching the burrs without changing the grind setting. With AKU PRO, it means seeing weight and flow as a brew develops. With FLO, it means changing a screen to explore how the coffee responds. The useful difference should be understandable in the act of brewing.
Our team brings experience from across the specialty coffee community into that process. We work with coffee professionals and roasters, combining practical brewing knowledge with modern design and manufacturing.
VARIA × KURASU KYOTO
Good questions
bring people together.
FLO grew from the collaboration between Ramsey Gyde and Kurasu Kyoto’s Yozo Otsuki, bringing product design and brewing experience to the same question: how can a dripper adapt to the coffee?
The response was a two-part dripper with interchangeable screens beneath the coffee bed. Change the screen and you change the flow path, giving the brewer another variable to explore within the same familiar tool.
That exchange reflects how we like to work. Different perspectives sharpen the question. Shared experience helps give it a practical form. What leaves the design process should open something up for the next person—the person making the coffee.
MATERIALS AND OWNERSHIP
Made for the ritual.
Considered for the years.
A tool becomes part of your routine through repeated use. Its materials, construction and care deserve the same attention as its first impression.
Where performance allows, we prioritise durable metals and glass. Accessible components and adaptable systems are part of our approach to keeping useful objects in use. These are choices we make product by product, around how each tool works and how it can be cared for.
Our aim is thoughtful ownership: equipment that is understood, looked after and used often. The value of the design continues long after the first brew.
RECOGNITION
A continuing story
of considered design.
View the 2021 SCA award winners
VS3
Good Design Product Award
SCAJ · Tokyo · 2022
Awarded to the Varia VS3.
A compact grinder recognised at SCAJ in Tokyo.
VS4
Best New Product
World of Coffee · San Diego · 2026
Consumer Coffee Preparation & Serving Equipment
The next chapter in our approach to the everyday grind.
The ORBI platform
Best New Product
World of Coffee · Brussels · 2026
Commercial Coffee Preparation & Serving Equipment
A connected brewing platform. A new chapter in bringing the creator’s intention into the cup.
COFFEE, PEOPLE AND PLACE
The experience
is yours to make.
Varia takes shape wherever coffee brings people together: in kitchens, cafés, brewing spaces and conversations around a shared cup.
Our collaborations and community events bring that exchange beyond the coffee bench. The Varia × UNIQLO activation connected brewing with everyday design; the 2025 Lujiazui Coffee Culture Festival in Shanghai made room for people to discover the tools through hands-on brewing and conversation.
The same curiosity belongs in an ordinary morning at home. Take time with a coffee. Try a different approach. Share what you learn. Equipment gives the experience a starting point; the person brewing gives it meaning.
BREW DIFFERENT
Keep your curiosity.
Make the next cup yours.
From the first question to the next discovery, we make tools that give you room to explore.
VARIA JOURNAL
The thinking continues.
Read the stories behind our products, their details and the routines they become part of.
Read the journal