Sponsored content provided by Daterra. Every year at Daterra, we search our crop’s production for the very best coffees – we call them MASTERPIECES by Daterra. They are very limited in quantity, but we are sharing them with the world at our fourth online auction on November 22, 2016. The eight featured coffees represent Daterra’s …
Sponsored content provided by KitchenAid. When KitchenAid decided to develop a video series—Get Something Brewing—that would feature contemporary coffee leaders and brewing trends, it was clear that Australian café culture had to be a part of the conversation. In that arena, few influencers have been more instrumental to Australia’s rising presence on the international stage than …
On October 1st, the coffee world will celebrate International Coffee Day. This is a day for honoring the people who work in coffee, appreciating the passion that coffee creates, as well as taking the opportunity to inform consumers about coffee as a global product. We encourage you to get involved on International Coffee Day! Here are a …
By Nora Burkey One of the most inspiring conversations I had this year was inside of a small room at the Georgia World Conference Center with Michael Sheridan, Kim Elena Ionescu, and Carla D. Martin, where we discussed the issue of coffee farm workers. Malian Lahey, a coffee farm owner in Hawaii, stood up to …
Since I was a kid through my college years, I was always eager to go to school. I like learning, being exposed to different ways of thinking about things, and looking at life through the perspectives of those who have come before us. Sometimes history repeats itself and it becomes clear that we need to …
By Andrew Hetzel Earlier this year, I voted alongside fellow SCAA Board Members unanimously in favor of pursuing unification with SCAE. We recognize that such momentous change will not be easy. In return, the price of that effort promises a new world of benefits for our members. Yet, it wasn’t until weeks after this vote …
By Todd Arnette When we created Educational Pathways, in order to develop programs that would be relevant and useful to our community, we asked ourselves, “What are the skillsets our member companies in the industry expect and require of a given position?” Each discipline where we have a Pathway had the same basic requirement of …
By William Garde In the winter of 2009, I was in South Africa with a missionary—little did I know the short trip we were about to take would change my career path. Piling into the Land Rover, we soon passed a sign that read “Zimbabwe.” Only ten years had passed since I had visited Zimbabwe, …
The Technical Standards Committee is one of the longest continuously functioning volunteer committees within the SCAA. Our responsibility is to conduct research to establish specialty coffee standards and determine industry best practice for publication on behalf of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. We serve the members of the SCAA and the coffee industry as …
By Christopher Hendon My interest in chemistry was sparked in 2007 when I received a copy of Luca Turin’s The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell. Turin describes his pursuits of synthesizing novel, smelly molecules, and the challenge of elucidating how humans physically detect and perceive these compounds. Among other …