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-- Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, First Sustainable Coffee Congress overview paper
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April 27, 2009: SCAA coffee awards
Two coffee competitions took place at the Specialty Coffee Association of America expo in association with The Roasters Guild: the Roaster's Choice Tasting Award and the Coffee of the Year. The ten Roaster's Choice coffees were available for tasting during...
April 18, 2009: SCAA Sustainability Award 2009
The Specialty Coffee Association of the Americas (SCAA) presented its annual awards last night. One is the Sustainability Award, which honors individuals, businesses, or organizations in the coffee industry that have created projects which expand and promote sustainability. Criteria include...
April 17, 2009: Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality 2009
As we did last year, Coffee & Conservation attended the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Coffee Breakfast at the SCAA annual show. The breakfast took place this morning. The winners of the sixth annual "Cupping for Quality" event were announced. These awards...
November 20, 2008: Roast Magazine's 2008 Roaster of the Year
I'm in the habit of mentioning Roast Magazine's annual Roaster of the Year awards, and I'm a bit tardy in posting the 2008 results. This year, the macro Roaster of the Year goes to Topeka's PT's Coffee Company. Over 95%...
May 11, 2008: Caribou Coffee wins Roaster's Choice award
In a previous post, I mentioned that one of my favorite aspects of the recent SCAA conference was tasting the ten finalists in the Roasters Guild 2008 Roasters Choice Tasting Competition. The theme was Single Origin coffees, and 36 members...
May 4, 2008: SCAA Sustainability Awards
The Specialty Coffee Association of the Americas (SCAA) presented its annual awards last night. One is the Sustainability Award, which honors individuals, businesses or organizations in the coffee industry that have created innovative projects to expand and promote sustainability. And...
May 3, 2008: Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality winners
My husband and I attended the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Coffee Breakfast this morning, at which the winners of the fifth annual "Cupping for Quality" event were announced. These awards recognizes Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified coffee farmers dedicated to growing top...
July 10, 2007: Quality, price, and sustainability
I made this comment on my post about Counter Culture's "Source" initiative: Fair Trade is such a darling of the green set, but it's certification is restricted to cooperatives, and does little to address quality. It's come to my attention...
June 1, 2007: Recent sustainability awards
Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality. This event was started in 2004 as a competition for Rainforest Alliance certified coffees. The most recent cuppings took place last December and in April, with over 100 samples submitted. There are many top-flight sustainable...
December 12, 2006: Bolivian Cup of Fair Trade
The C&C tasting panel's favorite coffee, among tough competition, is still Paradise Roasters' Calama Marka Bolivia Cup of Excellence, which is now, sadly, sold out. In that review, I discussed the cancellation of the 2006 Bolivian Cup of Excellence, due...
October 28, 2006: Roast Magazine Roaster of the Year
Roast Magazine has just announced the winners of their 3rd annual Roaster of the Year Award. Macro Category Winner: Intelligentsia (Chicago). It's hard to say too many good things about Intelly's commitment to great coffee, from the farm to the...
October 3, 2006: Another Bolivian coffee competition
In our review of Paradise Roasters Calama Marka Bolivia Cup of Excellence coffee, I discussed the cancellation of this year's program, and the politics behind it. I just received a comment from Michael Sheridan of the CRS Fair Trade program...
July 6, 2006: Roast Magazine Roaster of the Year 2005/06
The July/August 2006 issue of Roast Magazine announced it's winner of Roaster of the Year: Oren's Daily Roast. Members of the Roaster's Guild submitted coffees for tasting by their executive council, who picked their top 10. These were voted on...
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