Green Coffee Request: It’s that time of year where the SCAA is actively looking for in-kind sponsors for the Skill Building Workshops for the much anticipated show, The Event, in Portland, Oregon, April 19-22, 2012. These coffees will be used in SCAA roasting workshops at The Event and will be highly visible to this gathering …
Overview The Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) is a non-profit organization working internationally to improve the quality of coffee and the lives of the people who produce it. With its two primary programs, the Coffee Corps Volunteer Program and the Q Coffee System, CQI provides training and technical assistance to coffee producers and other individuals …
Help support Safehouse by making a donation on EverRibbon to help them rebuild. If you needed more evidence that the specialty coffee community takes care of their own, it was demonstrated yet again through the acts of SCAA member Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters. Employees of the company, Daniel Thompson and Dut Goodman, drove from Atlanta to …
Name: Brian Aliffi Title: Coffee Sourcing Manager Company: Caribou Coffee How long have you been volunteering for the SCAA? Since 2004. What was the first SCAA event you volunteered for and what were your duties? I had just “joined” the specialty coffee community …
SCAA Announces Honduras as its Portrait Country in 2012 In a formal ceremony held in the Presidential Palace, SCAA Executive Director, Ric Rhinehart, along with the SCAA Board of Directors signed an agreement naming Honduras as the Portrait Country for the annual SCAA exposition to be held in Portland, Oregon beginning on April 19, 2012. …
The Eastern African Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA), in partnership with the Uganda Coffee Federation and the Uganda TOH Committee are pleased to announce the completion of the 2012 Taste of Harvest (ToH) Coffee Competition that was held at the UCDA Quality Lab in Kampala from 16th – 20th January 2012. EAFCA’s ToH is the leading …
Name: Jason Dominy Title: Community Support & Outreach Company: Batdorf & Bronson Coffee How long have you been volunteering for the SCAA? 5 years. What was the first SCAA event you volunteered for and what were your duties? It was a Skill Building Workshop in Atlanta, …
On March 2 & 3, 2012 Square Mile Coffee Roasters will offer two opportunities to participate in the Instructor Development Program (IDP) in London, England. This popular professional development course allows Coffee Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to be students as they learn about applied adult learning concepts in the workplace, including instructional design (based on the ADDIE …
All of us in specialty coffee understand how special this industry is, yet we also know it is not necessarily easy to translate that story to coffee drinkers. Depictions of coffee flowers, bright red cherries, and roasted beans are routinely used to paint a picture in the consumers’ mind, to present a connection to the …
We invite you to join us for the 4th Annual SCAA Symposium where we will consider the new context for specialty – one where global demand for coffee outpaces production, creating new market pressures and eliciting questions about farmer incentive, margin preservation, and price resistance – and move quickly into the new ideas, solutions, and …