Single O’s Firecracker blend returns for 2026, with a new Hanabi Foam drink and 15cenchi cheesecake collaboration
Media release posted 15 July 2026
Single O has launched Firecracker for 2026, its seasonal coffee blend celebrating Japan’s festive season. Firecracker is now available as beans and Parachute coffee drip bags, alongside a new signature drink, Hanabi Foam, and a limited-edition cheesecake collaboration with 15cenchi.
Now in its ninth year, Firecracker has become an annual link between Single O’s Surry Hills roastery and its Ryogoku Roastworks in Tokyo, a blend released each year to mark the relationship between the two countries where Single O roasts and serves its coffee.
The 2026 Firecracker is a Caturra variety blended from coffees from Colombia’s Caldas and Tolima regions, put through a 36-hour anaerobic fermentation to bring out notes of guava, plum and tangerine. Its name and artwork are inspired by the Sumida Fireworks Festival, one of Japan’s biggest firework (hanabi) celebrations, held on the Sumida River just a few kilometres from Single O’s Tokyo flagship Ryogoku Roastworks. Firecracker beans and Parachutes are available now at Single O Surry Hills, Newstead, and Tokyo locations, as well as Single O wholesale partners.
To celebrate the launch of Firecracker, Single O introduces a new specialty drink, Hanabi Foam, made with the Firecracker blend. Served over iced milk and espresso, the drink is topped with a whipped coffee cream, a quenelle of chocolate mousse, a dusting of cocoa powder, and orange zest. The Hanabi Foam is now available at Single O cafes in Surry Hills, Newstead and Tokyo.
From Monday 27 July, Single O partners with Japanese basque cheesecake specialist 15cenchi on a Firecracker basque cheesecake, its flavour drawing on the blend’s notes of guava, plum and tangerine. The cheesecake will be available by the slice at Single O Surry Hills, Newstead and 15cenchi stores until 24 August.
“Firecracker is all about capturing those explosive flavours in coffee,” says Wendy De Jong, head of coffee at Single O. “The anaerobic fermentation brings these huge tropical fruit notes, but what keeps us coming back is how clean and balanced the cup is. It’s vibrant and shines across all the brew methods.”
Single O’s Firecracker blend is available at Single O Supercafes, and online via https://singleo.com.au/
About Single O
Single O was established in 2003 as a café & roaster in the back streets of Surry Hills, by a couple of single origin lovers escaping the corporate world. Back then, it was a sea of stale Italian packet coffee & fresh quality beans were hard to come by. And so by necessity & sheer will, Single O led the charge on showcasing single origin coffees, along with third wave roasting and brewing in Sydney. Since then, Single O has grown to supply likeminded, quality-crazed hospos, from their bases in Australia & Japan (since’14). The OG Surry Hills café digs is still cranking & pushing the brewing envelope, introducing the world’s first batch brew bar, Freepour Coffee On Tap. Single O opened its second Australian cafe in Newstead, Brisbane in September 2023, marking an exciting milestone in the coffee roaster’s history.
In 2018, Single O introduced its climate-change impact awareness program, No Death to Coffee, which spans across a number of initiatives. As part of the program, Single O was the first roaster to bring climate-resilient F1 variety coffees to customers, giving Aussies a world-exclusive taste of the future of coffee and rallying the industry to sign up to the World Coffee Research. Banning hundreds of thousands of single use cups from landfill through a ban on branded single use cups since the brand’s inception in 2003, they also co-founded The Juggler, which has saved over 100 million two-litre plastic milk bottles from the waste stream. Also part of their mission to go circular, Single O have partnered with Reground to divert over 40,000 kilos of ground coffee landing in landfill, with 88,000 kg of emissions avoided to date.
Single O is now embarking on the journey to achieve net zero status by 2030, in order to go beyond simply offsetting emissions through other parties and focus on reducing the companies own emissions, through upgrading their 92 existing solar panels, reducing environmental impact at an on premise and agricultural level as well as its fleet.
