The State recorded the biggest spike in coffee prices nationally, rising by a whopping 10.66 per cent in a year. The sharp rise puts WA as the second most expensive State to buy a cup of joe, being pipped by Tasmania which forks out $5.26 on average. Despite the Melbourne crowd claiming to be the biggest coffee snobs and lovers in the country, their coffee prices fell in the past year and came in as the cheapest State to buy a brew. Credit: Andune Coffee StudioAndy Tseng, co-founder of Andune Coffee Studio in Wembley, and 3 x latte art champion WA/SA said that the rising coffee prices has seen people start investing more into home brews. “People are starting to get coffee pots, high end coffee pots, where coffee pots are just better quality, and you can make good coffee with coffee pots.”